CHAPTER 18-3
GENERAL PROVISIONS

18-3-1 Activity Closure.

For the purpose of this title, all hunting, fishing, plant harvesting, trapping and/or parts thereof and other activity regulated under this title is open to tribal members within the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Reservation subject to the provisions of this title and unless otherwise authorized by the Tribal Council.

(Amended by PBP TC No. 2017-335, October 26, 2017; amended by PBP TC No. 2020-123, April 8, 2020)

18-3-2 Unlawful Take.

Unless and except as permitted by regulation made hereinafter provided in this title, it shall be unlawful at any time, by any means or manner to pursue, hunt, take, capture, kill, harness, waste, or attempt to take, capture, or kill, possess, offer for sale, harass, waste, sell, offer for barter, barter, offer to purchase, deliver for shipment, ship, export, import, deliver for transportation, transport, or cause to be transported, carried, or cause to be carried, or receive shipment, transportation, carriage, or export any fish or wildlife, any part or any product, whether or not manufactured, which consists, or is composed in whole or part, of any such fish, wildlife or any part included in the terms of this title.

(Amended by PBP TC No. 2017-335, October 26, 2017; amended by PBP TC No. 2020-123, April 8, 2020)

18-3-3 Title to Fish and Wildlife.

(A)    The legal title to and the custody and protection of all fish and wildlife within the Prairie Band Potawatomi Reservation is vested in the Nation for the purposes or regulating use, disposition and conservation thereof, under this title.

(B)    The legal title to any such fish or wildlife, or carcass and/or part thereof, taken or reduced to possession in violation of this title remains with the Nation; and the title to any such fish or wildlife, or carcass and/or part thereof, lawfully acquired, is subject to the condition that upon the violation of this title relating to the possession, use, giving, sale, barter, or transportation of such fish or wildlife, or carcass and/or part thereof, by the holder of such title, the same shall revert as a result of the violation to the Nation. In either case, any such fish or wildlife or carcass and/or part thereof may be seized forthwith, wherever found, by the Tribal Police Fish and Wildlife Division Officers.

(Amended by PBP TC No. 2017-335, October 26, 2017; amended by PBP TC No. 2020-123, April 8, 2020)