§ 10502

California Fish and Game Code · 2026 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

The commission may:

(a) Exercise control over all mammals and birds in a game refuge, and exercise control over all fish in a fish refuge.

(b) Authorize the department to issue, under any restrictions it deems best, permits that authorize the person named therein to carry, use, and possess, within a refuge, firearms, traps, or other contrivances for taking birds, mammals, fish, amphibians, or reptiles.

(c) Except as provided in Sections 10502.5, 10502.8, 10655, and 10657, authorize the department to issue permits that authorize the person named therein to take birds, mammals, fish, amphibians, or reptiles within a refuge.

(d) Adopt regulations not in conflict with any law for the protection of birds, mammals, fish, amphibians, reptiles, or marine life within a refuge.

(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 154, Sec. 96. (AB 1527) Effective January 1, 2016.)

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