The commissioner may, in an emergency, declare a closed season on any species of game birds, wild quadrupeds, reptiles or amphibians threatened with undue depletion from any cause and, if deemed necessary, to close any area, or any stream, lake or pond, or portions thereof, to hunting and trapping for limited periods of time.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-68
Emergency declaration of closed seasons
(1955, S. 2479d; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 263; P.A. 85-53, S. 7.) History: 1971 act substituted reference to environmental protection commissioner for reference to board of fisheries …
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