CSV.2.6.050 Deer Hunting Permits/Tags

(a) No member shall hunt deer pursuant to this subchapter without possessing a valid deer hunting permit approved by the Tribe. Such a permit may be the member's tribal identification card required by Section CSV.2.3.020(b).

(b)(1) No member shall hunt deer without possessing a valid carcass tag, except as provided in Section CSV.2.6.110 [Group Deer Hunting].

(2) The tribal conservation department shall issue no more than four (4) carcass tags at one time to a member except as authorized in Section CSV.2.6.190 [Level 2 Commercial Harvest].

(c) No antlerless deer permits are necessary, except when an antlerless deer harvest threshold was reached in the previous year and a quota has been declared pursuant to Section CSV.2.6.030 of this ordinance.

(1) When necessary, no member shall hunt antlerless deer without a valid antlerless deer permit bearing the number of the member's carcass tag(s) and valid for the date on which the member is hunting, except as provided in Section CSV.2.6.110 [Group Deer Hunting].

(2) When necessary, no member shall hunt antlerless deer pursuant to Section CSV.2.6.180 [Level 1 Commercial Harvest] without possessing a valid level 1 commercial antlerless deer harvest permit indicating the level 1 antlerless deer harvest zone in which the member may hunt.

(d) When necessary, no antlerless deer permits shall be considered valid for any deer management unit:

(1) which is shown to be closed on the permit;

(2) for which the permit is marked as invalid;

(3) on which any deer management unit number has been slit, punched through or otherwise crossed out in any fashion; or

(4) with respect to a level 1 commercial harvest antlerless deer permit, which lies outside the level 1 commercial harvest zone in which the member is authorized to hunt.

(e) No member shall move or field dress a deer before affixing to it a valid carcass tag.

(f) No member shall move or field dress an antlerless deer without making a slit or punch on the antlerless deer permit, when antlerless deer permits are necessary, through the number of the deer management unit in which the deer has been killed.

(g)(1) Except as otherwise provided in this ordinance, antlerless deer permits, when necessary, shall be valid for three distinct permit periods:

(A) Day after Labor Day to November 15;

(B) November 16 to December 1; and

(2) The tribal conservation department shall not issue an antlerless deer permit, when necessary, prior to the first day of the permit period for which the permit will be valid, except:

(A) a permit may be issued no more than 7 days prior to the regular deer season established pursuant to Section CSV.2.6.070; and

(B) a permit may be issued no more than 24 hours prior to the start of the middle deer season established pursuant to Section CSV.2.6.070.

(h) When necessary, the number of antlerless deer permits, including commercial harvest antlerless permits issued pursuant to Section CSV.2.6.180 [Level 1 Commercial Harvest] and Section CSV.2.6.190 [Level 2 Commercial Harvest], which may be issued at any one time for a deer management unit during an antlerless deer permit period shall be determined in accordance with the procedures and methods approved pursuant to the Chippewa Intertribal Agreement Concerning Resource Management and Regulation of Off-Reservation Treaty Rights in the Ceded Territory, and the Voigt Intertribal Task Force Protocol Noodawaawaashkeshiwe (Antlerless Deer Harvest) Levels and State Park Hunter Density Levels, which was adopted on May 26, 1989 and amended on August 7, 2008 and October 7, 2010, pursuant to that Agreement.