California Fish and Game Code ARTICLE 1 - Methods of Taking

• Section 3000.
  It is unlawful to take any bird or mammal, except a nongame mammal, between one-half hour after sunset and one-half hour before sunrise of the...
• Section 3001.
  It is unlawful to take birds or mammals with firearms, BB devices as defined in Section 16250 of the Penal Code, crossbows, or with bow...
• Section 3002.
  It is unlawful to shoot at any game bird or mammal, including a marine mammal as defined in Section 4500, from a powerboat, sailboat, motor...
• Section 3003.
  (a) It is unlawful for a person to shoot, shoot at, or kill a bird or mammal with a gun or other device accessed via an...
• Section 3003.1.
  Notwithstanding Sections 1001, 1002, 4002, 4004, 4007, 4008, 4009.5, 4030, 4034, 4042, 4152, 4180, or 4181:(a) It is unlawful for any person to trap for the...
• Section 3003.2.
  Notwithstanding Sections 4003, 4152, 4180, or 4180.1 of this code or Section 14063 of the Food and Agricultural Code, no person, including an employee of...
• Section 3003.5.
  It is unlawful to pursue, drive, or herd any bird or mammal with any motorized water, land, or air vehicle, including, but not limited to,...
• Section 3004.
  (a) It is unlawful for a person, other than the owner, person in possession of the premises, or a person having the express permission of the...
• Section 3004.5.
  (a) (1) Nonlead centerfire rifle and pistol ammunition, as determined by the commission, shall be required when taking big game, as defined in the department’s mammal hunting...
• Section 3005.
  (a) It is unlawful to take birds or mammals with any net, pound, cage, trap, set line or wire, or poisonous substance, or to possess birds...
• Section 3005.5.
  It is unlawful to capture any game mammal, game bird, nongame bird, nongame mammal, or furbearer, or to possess or confine any live game mammal,...
• Section 3006.
  Except as authorized under a domesticated game breeder’s license, a deer, elk, or bear kept in captivity may be killed only with the approval of...
• Section 3007.
  Except as provided in this code or regulations adopted pursuant to this code, it is unlawful to take a bird or mammal without a license...
• Section 3008.
  The physical control of a dog by its owner while the dog is engaged in hunting in an area where the owner is otherwise authorized...
• Section 3009.
  Every person who while taking any bird or mammal kills or injures another person by the use of any firearm, bow and arrow, spear, slingshot,...
• Section 3010.
  It is unlawful for any person to take any pheasant within 300 yards of any vehicle from which pheasants are being released into an area...
• Section 3011.
  No person, including employees of the state, federal or county government, shall take bear with iron or steel-jawed or any type of metal-jawed traps, and...
• Section 3012.
  It is unlawful to use any recorded or electrically amplified bird or mammal calls or sounds, or recorded or electrically amplified imitations of bird or...

Last modified: October 22, 2018