CHAPTER 5. Management of Deer [450. - 460.]

Chapter 5 repealed and added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 839.

§§ 450–460 · 11 sections

• § 450 It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Legislature to encourage the conservation, restoration, maintenance, and utilization of California’s wild deer…
• § 451 As used in this chapter “general deer hunting season” means the annual season for the area in question as is set by the commission under its general regulatory…
• § 452 The department shall designate deer herd management units and designate the manager for the units. Such units may encompass a single deer herd or a group of…
• § 453 The department shall develop plans for such deer herd management units. The objectives of such plans shall be the restoration and maintenance of healthy deer…
• § 454 Such management plans shall contain the following program elements: (a) Document existing information on deer herd management units and programs to obtain…
• § 455 Deer herd management unit plans shall be reviewed annually and shall be the basis for department recommendations to the commission pursuant to this chapter.
• § 456 The department shall biennially report to the Legislature and to the commission on the progress that is being made toward the restoration and maintenance of…
• § 457 (a) Not later than December 15 of each year, the department shall determine its proposed recommendations to the commission relating to the management of deer,…
• § 458 (a) Not later than December 15 of each year, the department shall provide notice of the details of its proposed recommendations under Section 457 to the board…
• § 459 (a) Not later than the February 1 next following the department’s notice, the board of supervisors of any affected county that has held a public hearing…
• § 460 (a) Prior to each meeting of the commission at which the commission considers the regulation of deer and takes action pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision…