5-35-2 Powers and Duties of the Department of Natural Resources

1. RECOGNITION-There is hereby recognized within the scheme of government of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe the Department of Natural Resources as has heretofore been established by the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Council.
2. POLICY AND INTENT-It shall be and is hereby established as the policy and intent of the Department of Game, Fish and Parks, in conjunction with the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Council to establish the following:
   1. To provide an adequate and flexible system for the protection and conservation of all forestry, fish and game resources on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation;
   2. To provide for the establishment of rules, regulation and ordinances relating to the harvest of fish, wildlife and timber on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation;
   3. To provide for the general management and supervision of all wildlife, fishery, forestry and outdoor recreational activities on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation;
   4. To provide for the establishment of license requirements, prohibited acts, penalties in regard to wildlife, fishery, forestry and outdoor recreational activities on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation.
3. REGULATIONS AND ORDINANCES, CONTENT-The Department of Natural Resources shall, from time to time recommend to the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Council for the adoption, amendment, promulgation, or repeal of such regulations and ordinances, consistent with the policy, objectives and intent of this Chapter as it may deem necessary or desirable in the public interest in carrying out the policy and provisions of this Chapter;

Such regulations and ordinances, shall without limiting the general powers herein conferred, include the following:

1. To fix seasons and shorten, extend or close seasons on any species of wildlife in any specific locality or localities, or in the entire reservation, when it shall be found, after investigation, that such actions necessary either to assure maintenance of an adequate supply thereof, to regulate taking, or to effectuate proper game management and control.
2. To close or open lakes, streams, and refuges or parts thereof to angling, trapping or hunting, and to regulate and prescribe the means by which wildlife may be taken as may be best to perpetuate, restore, increase or control any species of wildlife and assure an adequate supply thereof, and to regulate the transportation and storage of all wildlife or parts thereof within the boundaries of the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation and the shipment or transportation off of the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation.
3. To establish or change bag limits and possession limits.
4. To establish and change territorial limits for taking of all species of wildlife.
5. To prescribe the types of or kinds of bait, lures, tackle, equipment, trap, firearms and weapons, the tagging of game or fish or parts thereof or any other means or devices for taking of such wildlife.
6. To designate the areas for hunting with bow and arrow and seasons thereof.
7. To establish big game, small game, fish, and/or furbearing animal refuges, production areas, demonstration areas, and research areas; when private property is to be included in one of the above, written consent of the owner must first be obtained; all boundary lines shall be posted at the usual place of ingress with signs bearing instructions and title of the Department of Natural Resources of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe.
8. To establish methods for checking hunters, fishermen or trappers into and out of designated areas, to prescribe safety and fire control measures and other regulations as may be deemed necessary in the interest of range, forest, game, fish or furbearing animal management, and for the safety and welfare of hunters, trappers, fishermen, landowners and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe.
9. To establish fees and license costs for hunting seasons, general, special or otherwise.
10. To establish rules and regulations governing the operations of boats upon waters located within the exterior boundaries of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe.
11. To establish rules and regulations governing the operation of snowmobiles and other all-terrain recreational vehicles on the lands of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, which shall also include aircraft.
12. To establish guidelines, rules and regulations for the harvest of timber and to supervise such activities in such a way as to perpetuate the timber resources and to provide for sustained yield.