Code of Massachusetts Regulations
321 CMR - DIVISION OF FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE
Title 321 CMR 3.00 - Hunting
Section 3.03(1) - Special Regulations for Delaney Wildlife Management Area

(a) A permit system of hunting is hereby initiated that shall require a person, duly licensed to hunt in Massachusetts, to obtain a written permit from the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife to hunt on certain designated days and time periods on the Delaney Wildlife Management Area during the established hunting seasons for waterfowl. Such designated days shall be: the first four days of the open waterfowl season. In the event that the first Saturday immediately following the opening day of the waterfowl season is not one of the first four days of the open waterfowl season, it shall also be a designated day. In the event of two opening days for the waterfowl season in one calendar year (split waterfowl season) designated days will apply only to the first part of the split season.

(b) All applications for a permit shall be in writing and shall include a stamped, self addressed envelope.

(c) Applications shall be received not later than October 4 and shall be addressed to: Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, Northeast Wildlife District Headquarters, 85 Fitchburg Road, Ayer, MA 01432

(d) Applicants shall not submit more than one application for each designated day.

(e) Permits issued shall be valid only for the designated day and period as specified on the permit. For this purpose, "time period" shall mean either that period from 1/2 hour before sunrise to 12:00 P.M. or from 12:00 P.M. to sunset and shall apply only to those designated days when a permit is required. A person authorized by permit to hunt on a designated day shall be limited to only one of these time periods for that particular designated day. A person hunting from a specific blind site during the time period from 1/2 hour before sunrise to 12:00 P.M. shall be prepared to vacate the blind site by 12:00 P.M. in order to allow the next scheduled permittee access to the blind.

(f) All shooting shall be from the specific blind sites only. This shall apply to designated and non designated days alike. Shooting other than from a blind site is prohibited, except a hunter in pursuit of crippled waterfowl.

(g) On designated days, a person, except a hunter in pursuit of crippled waterfowl, shall not hunt other than from the blind site specified on the permit.

(h)A person hunting on designated days shall report to parking lot #1 located off Old Harvard Road for parking instructions.

(i) A person hunting at the Delaney Wildlife Management Area shall abide by and adhere to 321 CMR 3.03(1) as they apply and any other pertinent law or regulation including 321 CMR 3.01(1), except that such persons shall not be required to wear on their head a "hunter orange" cap or hat and, further, that the legal shooting hours shall be in compliance with 321 CMR 3.02(2) established for the hunting of migratory game birds.

(j) Permits are not required of persons hunting other than on those designated days as specified. On non designated days, blinds shall be occupied on a first-come, first-served basis. No more than three people shall hunt from or be within a specified blind site at any one time.

(k) Each permit issued on a designated day and time period shall entitle the permittee, and not more than two other persons, duly licensed or otherwise authorized to hunt in Massachusetts, to hunt from a blind site as specified on the permit.

(l) On designated days, unoccupied blind sites may be filled at the discretion of the attendant Division of Fisheries and Wildlife personnel.

(m) These special regulations shall become part of 321 CMR 3.01(1)(m) ®.