Title 20.1, Game, Fish, Predators, and Boating

The director may establish game or fish management areas upon any state-owned lands for the use and benefit of the game and fish department with the written consent of the entity responsible for the management of any state-owned lands, or upon any publicly or privately owned land…

The director shall keep a record of all state game refuges established on privately owned or leased lands or on public lands. This record must list each state game refuge by the county in which it is located and, with reference to each refuge established on privately owned or lea…

The director shall post each state game refuge and game management area with sign boards bearing the words "state game refuge" or "state game management area". These signs must be located at each corner of the refuge or management area and along the outer lines at intervals of ap…

The owner or lessee of any lands or lake set aside as a state game refuge under this chapter may not hunt or carry firearms within the limits thereof, nor permit the members of that person's family or other persons to do so. However, if that person has reason to believe there are…

The director, with the consent of the refuge owner or lessee, may designate any game warden or other person to destroy, subject to the regulations of the director, predatory birds or animals within any state game refuge.

The director shall mark all game farms, state game refuges, game or fish management areas, breeding grounds, and resting places under the director's protection. No person may mutilate, destroy, tear or pull down, or shoot at any designating mark or other special or general warnin…

Before the department posts private land as a waterfowl rest area, it shall obtain the consent, in writing, of those residents owning land to be posted.

The board of university and school lands, for wildlife restoration projects, may transfer and convey to the department any state school land. A transfer and conveyance may not exceed six hundred forty acres [259 hectares] for any one project and must be made in exchange for other…

Except as provided in sections 20.1-11-05, 20.1-11-08, and 20.1-11-09, no person may: 1. Hunt, shoot, trap, kill, wound, take, or capture any game bird or protected animal within the limits of any state or federal game refuge or state game management area. 2. Drive any game bird …

The director may seize tangible property presumed abandoned on state game refuges, real property leased or managed by the game and fish department, and state game or fish management areas. After ninety days, the director may dispose of seized, unclaimed, tangible property presume…