321 CMR, § 3.03(1) - Special Regulations for Delaney Wildlife Management Area
Special Regulations for Hunting on the Delaney Wildlife Management Area in the Towns of Stow, Harvard, and Bolton, Massachusetts.
By the authority vested in me, pursuant to 321 CMR 3.01(1)(m), as established in accordance with the provisions of M.G.L. c. 131, section 6, I herewith establish the following special regulations governing hunting on the Delaney Wildlife Management Area in the Towns of Stow, Harvard, and Bolton, during the prescribed hunting season for waterfowl as established in 321 CMR 3.02(2).(a) A permit system of
hunting is hereby initiated that shall require a person, duly licensed to hunt
in Massachusetts, to obtain a written permit from the Massachusetts Division of
Fisheries and Wildlife to hunt on certain designated days and time periods on
the Delaney Wildlife Management Area during the established hunting seasons for
waterfowl. Such designated days shall be: the first four days of the open
waterfowl season. In the event that the first Saturday immediately following
the opening day of the waterfowl season is not one of the first four days of
the open waterfowl season, it shall also be a designated day. In the event of
two opening days for the waterfowl season in one calendar year (split waterfowl
season) designated days will apply only to the first part of the split
season.
(b) All applications for a
permit shall be in writing and shall include a stamped, self addressed
envelope.
(c) Applications shall be
received not later than October 4 and shall be addressed to: Division of
Fisheries and Wildlife, Northeast Wildlife District Headquarters, 85 Fitchburg
Road, Ayer, MA 01432
(d) Applicants
shall not submit more than one application for each designated day.
(e) Permits issued shall be valid only for
the designated day and period as specified on the permit. For this purpose,
"time period" shall mean either that period from 1/2 hour before sunrise to
12:00 P.M. or from 12:00 P.M. to sunset and shall apply only to those
designated days when a permit is required. A person authorized by permit to
hunt on a designated day shall be limited to only one of these time periods for
that particular designated day. A person hunting from a specific blind site
during the time period from 1/2 hour before sunrise to 12:00 P.M. shall be
prepared to vacate the blind site by 12:00 P.M. in order to allow the next
scheduled permittee access to the blind.
(f) All shooting shall be from the specific
blind sites only. This shall apply to designated and non designated days alike.
Shooting other than from a blind site is prohibited, except a hunter in pursuit
of crippled waterfowl.
(g) On
designated days, a person, except a hunter in pursuit of crippled waterfowl,
shall not hunt other than from the blind site specified on the permit.
(h)A person hunting on designated
days shall report to parking lot #1 located off Old Harvard Road for parking
instructions.
(i) A person hunting
at the Delaney Wildlife Management Area shall abide by and adhere to 321 CMR
3.03(1) as they apply and any other pertinent law or regulation including 321
CMR 3.01(1), except that such persons shall not be required to wear on their
head a "hunter orange" cap or hat and, further, that the legal shooting hours
shall be in compliance with 321 CMR 3.02(2) established for the hunting of
migratory game birds.
(j) Permits
are not required of persons hunting other than on those designated days as
specified. On non designated days, blinds shall be occupied on a first-come,
first-served basis. No more than three people shall hunt from or be within a
specified blind site at any one time.
(k) Each permit issued on a designated day
and time period shall entitle the permittee, and not more than two other
persons, duly licensed or otherwise authorized to hunt in Massachusetts, to
hunt from a blind site as specified on the permit.
(l) On designated days, unoccupied blind
sites may be filled at the discretion of the attendant Division of Fisheries
and Wildlife personnel.
(m) These
special regulations shall become part of
321 CMR
3.01(1)(m)
®.
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