The department may declare a closed season for not over ten days at any one time in any area in the State when it appears on account of abnormal conditions that deer or other game cannot protect themselves. The department shall give notice of the closed season so declared by publication in at least two daily newspapers and in a newspaper of the county or counties in which the closed season is declared if the county has a newspaper, stating the length or period of the closed season. Any person found hunting with firearms, bows and arrows, or other game-taking devices, or dog within the restricted territory during a closed season so declared is guilty of a violation of the provisions of this section, regardless of whether he has or has not killed or taken any game. The penalty for a violation of the provisions of this section is a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two hundred dollars or imprisonment for not less than thirty days.
HISTORY: [Derived from former Section 50-11-360 (1962 Code Section 28-359; 1952 Code Section 28-359; 1942 Code Section 1785-1; 1932 Code Section 1790; 1925 (34) 294; 1926 (34) 1045; 1952 (47) 2179; 1965 (54) 156)]; 1988 Act No. 561, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1262.
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