Montana Code Annotated 2025

TITLE 87. FISH AND WILDLIFE

CHAPTER 3. RESTRICTIONS AND REGULATIONS

Part 1. General Provisions

Use Of Aircraft -- Authority To Issue Permits And Adopt Rules

87-3-126. Use of aircraft -- authority to issue permits and adopt rules. (1) A manned or unmanned aircraft may be used for the purpose of herding, driving, or hazing wild animals damaging private property or crops on the property in question pursuant to a permit issued by the department.

(2) The commission shall adopt rules for the issuance of the permit. The permit may be conditioned to address individual circumstances of each application for a permit.

(3) The department shall issue permits except during any legal general or regular hunting season for the species for which a permit was requested.

(4) The permitting program must comply with requirements of federal law for the activity.

History: En. Sec. 14, Ch. 238, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3694, R.C.M. 1921; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 77, L. 1923; amd. Sec. 15, Ch. 192, L. 1925; amd. Sec. 12, Ch. 59, L. 1927; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 162, L. 1931; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 159, L. 1941; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 224, L. 1947; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 157, L. 1949; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 126, L. 1951; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 223, L. 1953; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 193, L. 1955; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 53, L. 1963; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 34, L. 1967; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 90, L. 1969; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 201, L. 1969; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 177, L. 1971; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 124, L. 1973; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 305, L. 1973; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 108, L. 1975; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 152, L. 1975; amd. Sec. 9, Ch. 9, L. 1977; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 196, L. 1977; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 235, L. 1977; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 400, L. 1977; amd. Sec. 13, Ch. 417, L. 1977; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 485, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 26-301(2); amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 211, L. 2005; amd. Sec. 100, Ch. 258, L. 2011; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 553, L. 2025.