1904 Ohio Gen. and Local Acts 471, An Act Creating a§Fish and Game Commission . . . §§15 (vol. 97)
Abstract
No person shall hunt or shoot, or have in the open air for such purposes, any implements for hunting or shooting on any Sunday.
Summary
The law established specific hunting seasons for various game birds and prohibited using traps, nets, snares, certain boats, or oversized guns to take them. It also banned waterfowl hunting on Sundays and Mondays, hunting before sunrise or after sunset, and hunting on Sundays generally, while imposing daily bag limits. State game officials were exempt when taking birds or eggs for propagation purposes.
Law Text
SECTION 15. No person shall, within this state, catch, kill, injure or pursue with such intent, any Virginia partridge or quail, except from the fifteenth day of November to the fifth day of December; or any woodcock or Carolina dove, except from the first day of September to the first day of December; or any rail, shore bird, plover, snipe, wild duck, wild goose, wild swan, coot, or mud hen except from the first day of September to the first day of December, and the first day of March to the twentieth day of April.
No person shall, at any time, catch, kill, injure or pursue any of the birds mentioned in this section by the aid or use of any trap, net or snare, or disturb or destroy any of the nests or eggs or young thereof; nor catch, kill, injure or pursue any wild duck or other water fowl named in this section by the aid or use of any gun except a common shoulder gun of not larger than ten gauge, or with the aid of or from any sink boat, sink box or sneak boat, or by the aid or use of any boat whatsoever except a common row boat propelled by oars.
No person shall catch, kill, injure or pursue, any wild duck or other water fowl on Sunday or Monday of any week, nor catch, kill, injure or pursue, or shoot at any such water fowl, before sunrise or after sunset upon any day upon which day it shall be lawful to kill the same.
No person shall hunt or shoot, or have in the open air for such purposes, any of the implements for hunting or shooting on any Sunday.
No person shall kill in any one day more than eighteen Virginia partridge or quail, Carolina dove, woodcock, geese, rail, shore bird, plover or snipe, nor more than twenty-five duck. No person shall shoot at any Virginia partridge or quail or Carolina dove except when they are flying.
The birds named in this section and in section 17 of this act, shall be known and be classed as game birds in contradistinction to all other birds.
Nothing contained in this section or in section 17 of this act shall be held to prohibit the commissioners of fish and game, or their authorized agents or employes, from taking, at any time, the birds and eggs named for the purposes of propagation or the importation of the birds named in sections 15 and 17 of this act, by the commissioners of fish and game, their authorized agents or employes, for the purpose of propagation.
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HUNTING REGULATION