California Code of Regulations
Title 14 - Natural Resources
Division 1 - Fish and Game Commission-Department of Fish and Game
Subdivision 2 - Game, Furbearers, Nongame, and Depredators
Chapter 3 - Big Game
Section 365 - Bear
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 12, March 22, 2024
Except as provided in Section 366, bear may be taken only as follows:
(a) Areas:
(b) Seasons: Except in the deer hunt areas designated as zones X-1 through X-7b in subsection 360(b), the bear season shall open on the opening day of the general deer season as described in subsections 360(a) and (b) and extend until the last Sunday in December in the areas described in subsections 365(a)(1), (2), (3) (4) and (5) above. In those areas designated as deer hunting zones X-1 through X-7b, the bear season shall open on the second Saturday in October and extend for 79 consecutive days. The bear season shall be closed when the department determines that 1,700 bears have been taken pursuant to the reporting requirement in subsection 708.12(d). The department shall notify the commission, the public via the news media and bear tag holders via the U.S. mail and the news media when implementing this closure.
(c) Bag and Possession Limit: One adult bear per hunting license year. Cubs and females accompanied by cubs may not be taken. (Cubs are defined as bears less than one year of age or bears weighing less than 50 pounds.)
(d) No open season for bear in the balance of the state not included in subsection (a) above.
(e) Bait: No feed, bait or other materials capable of attracting a bear shall be placed or used for the purpose of taking or pursuing a bear. No bear shall be taken over such bait. No person may take a bear within a 400-yard radius of a garbage dump or bait.
1. Repealer
of section
365 and renumbering and amendment
of section
351 to section
365 filed 5-13-81; designated
effective tenth day thereafter (Register 81, No. 20). For history of former
section 365, see Registers 79, No. 19; and
78, No. 24.
2. Repealer and new section filed 6-7-82; designated
effective tenth day thereafter (Register 82, No. 24).
3. Amendment
of subsections (a)(1), (b), (e) and repealer of subsection (a)(5) filed 6-22-84
as an emergency; designated effective 7-1-84 (Register 84, No. 31). A
Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL within 120 days or
emergency language will be repealed on 10-29-84.
4. Certificate of
Compliance including amendment of NOTE transmitted to OAL 10-22-84 and filed
11-26-84 (Register 84, No. 48).
5. Amendment of subsections (a) and
(b) filed 7-15-85; designated effective tenth day thereafter (Register 85, No.
31).
6. Amendment of subsection (a)(5) filed 7-1-86; effective upon
filing (Register 86, No. 27).
7. Amendment filed 5-31-88; operative
5-31-88 (Register 88, No. 23).
8. Amendment to first line and
subsection (b) and new subsection (f) filed 9-6-90; operative 9-6-90 (Register
90, No. 43).
9. Amendment of subsections (b) and (f) filed 7-13-94;
operative 7-13-94 pursuant to sections
202 and
215,
Fish and Game Code (Register 94, No. 28).
10. Editorial correction
of first paragraph and subsection (a)(3) (Register 96, No. 26).
11.
Amendment of first paragraph and subsection (b) filed 6-26-96; operative 7-1-96
pursuant to section
11343.4(d)
(Register 96, No. 26).
12. Amendment of subsection (f) filed 7-1-98;
operative 7-1-98 pursuant to Fish and Game Code sections
202 and
215
(Register 98, No. 27).
13. Repealer of subsection (f) filed
6-27-2000; operative 6-27-2000 pursuant to Fish and Game Code sections
202 and
205
(Register 2000, No. 26).
14. Amendment filed 6-28-2002; operative
6-28-2002 pursuant to Fish and Game Code sections
202 and
215
(Register 2002, No. 26).
15. Amendment of subsection (a)(5) filed
7-7-2004; operative 7-7-2004 pursuant to Government Code section
11343.4
(Register 2004, No. 28).
16. Amendment of subsection (c) filed
7-8-2011; operative 7-8-2011 pursuant to Government Code section
11343.4
(Register 2011, No. 27).
17. Amendment of subsection (b) filed
5-29-2012; operative 7-1-2012 (Register 2012, No. 22).
18. Change
without regulatory effect amending first paragraph, subsection (b) and NOTE
filed 3-5-2013 pursuant to section
100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 2013, No. 10).
19. Change without regulatory
effect amending NOTE filed 8-8-2019 pursuant to section
100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 2019, No. 32).
Note: Authority cited: Sections 200, 203 and 265, Fish and Game Code. Reference: Sections 110, 200, 203, 203.1 and 265, Fish and Game Code.