Section 204.

The commission has no power under this article to make any regulation authorizing or permitting the taking of:

(a) Any bird or mammal in any refuge heretofore or hereafter established by statute, the taking or possession of which shall be regulated pursuant to Sections 10500 to 10506, inclusive.

(b) Elk, the taking or possession of which shall be regulated pursuant to Section 332.

(c) Antelope, the taking or possession of which shall be regulated pursuant to Section 331.

(d) Any spike buck or spotted fawn. "Spotted fawn" means a young deer born that year which has spotted pelage. "Spike buck" means a male deer with unbranched antlers on both sides which are more than three inches in length.

Any regulation establishing a season to compensate for closure of an area due to extreme fire hazard shall be made pursuant to Section 306.

Any regulation setting a special hunting season for mammals, except deer, or game birds which have increased in number to such an extent that a surplus exists or which are damaging property or are overgrazing their range shall be made pursuant to Section 325.

(Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 526, Sec. 2.)