Fish & G. Code, § 10500 · Article 1. General Provisions
Fish & G. Code, § 10500
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
Except under a permit or specific authorization, it is unlawful to do any of the following:
(a) To take or possess a bird or mammal in a game refuge.
(b) To use or have in possession in a game refuge, a firearm, BB device as defined in Section 16250 of the Penal Code, crossbow, bow and arrow, or a trap or other contrivance designed to be, or capable of being, used to take birds or mammals, or to discharge a firearm or BB device or to release an arrow or crossbow bolt into a game refuge.
(c) To take or possess a fish or amphibian in a fish refuge, or to use or have in possession in that refuge a contrivance designed to be used for catching fish.
(d) To take or possess a bird, discharge a firearm or BB device, or release an arrow or crossbow bolt, within or into a waterfowl refuge.
(e) To take or possess a quail in a quail refuge.
(f) To take or possess an invertebrate or specimen of marine plant life in a marine life refuge.
(g) To take or possess a clam or an instrument or apparatus capable of being used to dig clams in a clam refuge.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 154, Sec. 95. (AB 1527) Effective January 1, 2016.
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