Section 10500.

Except under a permit or specific authorization, it is unlawful to do any of the following:

(a) To take or possess any bird or mammal, or part thereof, in any game refuge.

(b) To use or have in possession in a game refuge, any firearm, BB device as defined in Section 16250 of the Penal Code, crossbow, bow and arrow, or any trap or other contrivance designed to be, or capable of being, used to take birds or mammals, or to discharge any firearm or BB device or to release any arrow or crossbow bolt into any game refuge.

(c) To take or possess any species of fish or amphibian, or part thereof, in any fish refuge, or to use or have in possession in that refuge any contrivance designed to be used for catching fish.

(d) To take or possess any bird in, or to discharge any firearm or BB device, or to release any arrow or crossbow bolt within or into, any waterfowl refuge.

(e) To take or possess any quail in a quail refuge.

(f) To take or possess any invertebrate or specimen of marine plant life in a marine life refuge.

(g) To take or possess any clam in a clam refuge or to possess in such a refuge any instrument or apparatus capable of being used to dig clams.

(Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 178, Sec. 31. Effective January 1, 2011. Operative January 1, 2012, by Sec. 107 of Ch. 178.)