California Code of Regulations
Title 14 - Natural Resources
Division 1 - Fish and Game Commission-Department of Fish and Game
Subdivision 3 - General Regulations
Chapter 3 - Miscellaneous
Section 712 - Restriction of Importation of Hunter-Harvested Deer and Elk Carcasses
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
It is unlawful to import, or possess any hunter harvested cervid carcass or parts of any cervid carcass imported into the State, such as deer, elk, moose, caribou, reindeer, and other species of the Family Cervidae, except for the following:
(a) portions of meat with no part of the spinal column, brain or head attached (other bones, such as legs and shoulders, may be attached).
(b) hides and capes (no spinal column, brain tissue or head may be attached).
(c) clean skull plates (no brain tissue may be present, pursuant to Section 714 of these regulations) with antlers attached, if present. For the purpose of this section, the skull plate is defined as the paired bones (frontal, parietal, and temporal bones) that make up the top portion of the skull surrounding the brain and, in antlered animals, from which the paired antlers extend.
(d) antlers with no meat or tissue attached, except legally harvested and possessed antlers in the velvet stage are allowed, if no meat, brain or other tissue is attached.
(e) finished taxidermy mounts with no meat or tissue attached (antlers in the velvet stage are allowed if no meat, brain or other tissue is attached).
(f) upper canine teeth (buglers, whistlers, ivories).
Note: Authority cited: Sections 200, 203 and 2355, Fish and Game Code. Reference: Sections 200, 203 and 2355, Fish and Game Code.
Note: Authority cited: Sections 200, 203, 240 and 2355, Fish and Game Code. Reference: Sections 200, 203 and 2355, Fish and Game Code.
