A person may not possess, control, ship, transport, or store, can, or otherwise preserve, more than the number authorized in the governor’s proclamation of any species of game bird mentioned in this chapter. However, properly tagged game birds legally taken out of state or taken on Indian land may be possessed, transported, or shipped in state.

Terms Used In North Dakota Code 20.1-04-06

  • Game birds: includes all varieties of geese, brant, swans, ducks, plovers, snipes, woodcocks, grouse, sagehens, pheasants, Hungarian partridges, quails, partridges, cranes, rails, coots, wild turkeys, mourning doves, and crows. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
  • Indian land: means land within the exterior boundaries of an Indian reservation held in trust by the federal government for the benefit of an Indian tribe or an Indian and land within the exterior boundaries of an Indian reservation owned in fee by an Indian tribe or an Indian. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
  • Person: includes every partnership, association, corporation, and limited liability company. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
  • preserve: means any privately owned or leased acreage [hectarage] on which hatchery-raised game birds are released to be hunted for a fee over an extended season. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
  • Species: includes any subspecies of wildlife and any other group of wildlife of the same species or smaller taxa in common spatial arrangement that interbreed when mature. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Transport: means to cause or attempt to cause a species to be carried or moved into or within the state and includes accepting or receiving the species for transportation or shipment. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
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