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CALIFORNIA CODES FISH AND GAME CODE SECTION 4800-4809
4800. (a) The mountain lion (genus Felis) is a specially protected mammal under the laws of
this state.
(b) It is unlawful to take, injure, possess, transport, import, or sell any mountain lion or any
part or product thereof, except as specifically provided in this chapter or in Chapter 2
(commencing with Section 2116) of Division 3. This chapter does not prohibit the sale or
possession of any mountain lion or any part or product thereof, when the owner can
demonstrate that the mountain lion, or part or product thereof, was in the person's
possession on June 6, 1990.
(c) Any violation of this section is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail
for not more than one year, or a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by
both that fine and imprisonment. An individual is not guilty of a violation of this section
if it is demonstrated that, in taking or injuring a mountain lion, the individual was acting
in self-defense or in defense of others.
(d) Section 219 does not apply to this chapter. Neither the commission nor the department shall
adopt any regulation that conflicts with or supersedes any of the provisions of this chapter.
4800. (b) The commission shall regulate the mountain lion (genus Felis) pursuant to Chapter 2
(commencing with Section 200) of Division 1, and the department shall carry out the
regulations of the commission and manage those mammals in the same manner as it carries
out other regulations of the commission and manages other mammals that are not rare,
endangered, or threatened species under the laws of this state.
(b) Pursuant to subdivision (a), the department shall prepare, submit to the commission for
approval, and implement a mountain lion management plan that promotes health and safety
protection and protection for livestock, domestic animals, other property, and other wildlife
species and that implements Section 1801. The plan shall identify zones based on the
department's estimates of mountain lion densities developed from the best information
available to the department. The department shall designate the zones that are priority zones
where the removal of individual mountain lions to protect public safety, livestock, domestic
animals, other property, and other wildlife species has not alleviated threats. In
designating priority zones, the department may consider, based on the best information
available to the department, where the mountain lion population is depleting other wildlife
species or where the mountain lion population may cause any of the following: (1) the
extinction of threatened or endangered species; (2) mountain lion depredation of livestock
and domestic animals; or (3) a threat to public health and safety. The taking of a mountain
lion that is attacking an individual member of a wildlife species other than threatened or
endangered species shall not be authorized based on that act alone. Except as otherwise
provided in this chapter, the department shall not manage, regulate, or take mountain lions
in a priority zone, as provided in this section or Section 4801, unless there is a plan for
that zone and the department makes a finding that managing, regulating, or taking mountain
lions is consistent with the plan for that zone and maintains a viable mountain lion
population in that zone.
(c) It is unlawful to take, injure, possess, transport, import, or sell any mountain lion or any
part or product thereof, except as specifically provided in this chapter, in Chapter 2
(commencing with Section 2116) of Division 3, or as prescribed in regulations of the
commission. This chapter does not prohibit the sale or possession of any mountain lion or any
part or product thereof, when the owner can demonstrate that the mountain lion, or part or
product thereof, was in the person's possession on June 6, 1990.
(d) Any violation of this section is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail
for not more than one year, or a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by
both that fine and imprisonment. An individual is not guilty of a violation of this section
if it is demonstrated that, in taking or injuring a mountain lion, the individual was acting
in self-defense or in defense of others.
(e) In the case of conflict between this chapter and the California Endangered Species Act,
Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 2050) of Division 3, the California Endangered Species
Act shall prevail.
4801. The department may remove or take any mountain lion, or authorize an appropriate local agency
with public safety responsibility to remove or take any mountain lion, that is perceived to be an
imminent threat to public health or safety.
4801. The department may remove or take, or authorize its designee, including, but not limited to,
an appropriate governmental agency with public safety responsibility, an appropriate governmental
agency with wildlife management responsibility, or an owner of land, to remove or take, one or more
mountain lions that are perceived to be an imminent threat to public health or safety or livestock
anywhere in the state except within the state park system. Within the state park system, the
department may remove or take, or authorize an appropriate governmental agency with public safety
responsibility or an appropriate governmental agency with wildlife management responsibility to
remove or take, one or more mountain lions that are perceived to be an imminent threat to public
health or safety only with the concurrence of the Department of Parks and Recreation.
4801.5. Prior to submittal to, and approval by, the commission of the plan required pursuant to
subdivision (b) of Section 4800, the department may remove or take any mountain lion, or
authorize an appropriate local agency with public safety responsibility to remove or take
any mountain lion, that is perceived to be an imminent threat to public health or safety.
4802. Any person, or the employee or agent of a person, whose livestock or other property is being
or has been injured, damaged, or destroyed by a mountain lion may report that fact to the department
and request a permit to take the mountain lion.
4803. Upon receipt of a report pursuant to Section 4802, the department, or any animal damage
control officer specifically authorized by the department to carry out this responsibility, shall
immediately take the action necessary to confirm that there has been depredation by a mountain lion
as reported. The confirmation process shall be completed as quickly as possible, but in no event
more than 48 hours after receiving the report. If satisfied that there has been depredation by a
mountain lion as reported, the department shall promptly issue a permit to take the depredating
mountain lion.
4804. In order to ensure that only the depredating mountain lion will be taken, the department shall
issue the permit pursuant to Section 4803 with the following conditions attached:
(a) The permit shall expire 10 days after issuance.
(b) The permit shall authorize the holder to begin pursuit not more than one mile from the
depredation site.
(c) The permit shall limit the pursuit of the depredating mountain lion to within a 10-mile
radius from the location of the reported damage or destruction.
4805. Whenever immediate authorization will materially assist in the pursuit of the particular
mountain lion believed to be responsible for the depredation reported pursuant to Section 4802, the
department or the animal damage control officer may orally authorize the pursuit and taking of the
depredating mountain lion, and the department shall issue a written permit for the period previously
authorized as soon as practicable after the oral authorization.
4806. Any person issued a permit pursuant to Section 4803 or 4805 shall report, by telephone within
24 hours, the capturing, injuring, or killing of any mountain lion to an office of the department
or, if telephoning is not practicable, in writing within five days after the capturing, injuring, or
killing of the mountain lion. At the time of making the report of the capturing, injuring, or
killing, the holder of the permit shall make arrangements to turn over the mountain lion or the
entire carcass of the mountain lion which has been recovered to a representative of the department
and shall do so in a timely manner.
4806. Any person who has captured, injured, or killed a mountain lion within a priority zone
identified in a mountain lion management plan under Section 4800 or who has been issued a permit
pursuant to Section 4803 or 4805 shall report, by telephone within 24 hours, the capturing,
injuring, or killing of any mountain lion to an office of the department or, if telephoning is not
practicable, in writing within five days after the capturing, injuring, or killing of the mountain
lion. At the time of making the report of the capturing, injuring, or killing, the person authorized
to take the mountain lion under a mountain lion management plan approved pursuant to Section 4800
shall make the remains of the mountain lion available for inspection to department personnel upon
their request pursuant to regulations adopted by the commission and the holder of the permit under
Section 4803 or 4805 shall make arrangements to turn over the mountain lion or the entire carcass of
the mountain lion which has been recovered to a representative of the department and shall do so in
a timely manner.
4800. (c) Any mountain lion that is encountered while in the act of pursuing, inflicting injury to,
or killing livestock, or domestic animals, may be taken immediately by the owner of the
property or the owner's employee or agent. The taking shall be reported within 72 hours
to the department. The department shall investigate the depredation, and, if the mountain
lion was captured, injured, or killed, the mountain lion or the entire carcass of the
mountain lion which has been recovered shall be turned over to the department. Upon
satisfactorily completing the investigation and receiving the mountain lion or the
carcass, if recovered, the department shall issue a permit confirming that the
requirements of this section have been met with respect to the particular mountain lion
taken under these circumstances.
(b) The department shall undertake a complete necropsy on any returned mountain lion carcass and
report the findings to the commission. The commission shall compile the reported findings and
prepare an annual written report that shall be submitted to the Legislature not later than
the January 15 next following the year in which the mountain lion was taken.
4808. As used in this chapter, "agent" means the agent or employee of the owner of the damaged or
destroyed property, any county or city predator control officer, any employee of the Animal Damage
Control Section of the United States Department of Agriculture, any departmental personnel, or any
authorized or permitted houndsman registered with the department as possessing the requisite
experience and having no prior conviction of any provision of this code or regulation adopted
pursuant to this code. A plea of nolo contendere is a conviction for purposes of this section.
4809. Mountain lions authorized to be taken pursuant to this chapter shall be taken by the most
effective means available to take the mountain lion causing the damage or destruction, except that
no mountain lion shall be taken by means of poison, leg-hold or metal-jawed traps, and snares.