This record does not carry 2 regulations the state has. The declarations below are the record's own words.
kind: cross-references — description: **Rhode Island's deer bag and season limits are not on this page.** The heading says "see page 8 for bag/season limit information" and that pointer is carried as a `limit` row, but the numbers themselves are on folio 8 and are not compiled here. Neither are the ZONE DEFINITIONS: this page names Zones 1, 2, 3 and 4, Block Island and Patience and Prudence Islands, and says nowhere which land is in which zone. A hunter cannot use these rows without both. **Nor are the LEGAL SHOOTING HOURS, and this page does not point at them.** PDF page 35 (folio 32) -- the page immediately after the cited one -- prints a `Legal Shooting Hours` table whose Deer row reads "1/2 hour before Sunrise until 1/2 hour after Sunset". That is a binding deer rule, it is in this same file, it is one page away, and nothing on page 34 mentions it: the deer heading points only to folio 8. Found by rendering the pages either side of the cited range, which is the check three states went offline this cycle for not running. It is NOT a continuation of this table -- page 35 is a different table under a different heading and page 33 is photo submissions, so `PAGE` is not one page short -- but a compilation that publishes Rhode Island's deer seasons and stays silent about when it is legal to shoot during them is silent about something a hunter needs.
kind: other species — description: The same page carries three more season tables -- Migratory Game Bird (13 rows), Wild Turkey (4) and Small Game (9). They are read and ruled out line by line with a reason rather than swept, but they are NOT published: this compilation is white-tailed deer. 26 seasons for other species are on this page and in no row of this record.
in season now Archery (Zones 1 and 2) runs through 2027-01-31 derived as of Sep 24
Do not take our word for it. The document every row on this page was read out of is one tap away, and checking us against it is exactly what the citation, the sha256 and the source lines under each row are for.
Open the source document → https://dem.ri.gov/media/36651/download#page=34If that document says something this page does not, the document is the regulation and this page is wrong. The copy we read is the one whose sha256 is above; if the publisher has replaced the file since 2026-08-08, yours will not match ours, and that difference is the thing worth knowing.
September 12–13
closed this season derived as of Sep 24
2026-09-12 → 2026-09-13 derived (year inferred)
| period | 1 of 2 |
|---|---|
| restriction | Youth only |
These are the pages the adapter read for the whole state. This row was not narrowed to a page of its own.
September 15–January 31, 2027
open now ends 2027-01-31 · derived as of Sep 24
2026-09-15 → 2027-01-31 derived (year inferred)
| period | 2 of 2 |
|---|---|
| restriction |
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October 17–18
opens in 23 days derived as of Sep 24
2026-10-17 → 2026-10-18 derived (year inferred)
| period | 1 of 2 |
|---|---|
| restriction | Youth only |
These are the pages the adapter read for the whole state. This row was not narrowed to a page of its own.
October 19–January 31, 2027
opens in 25 days derived as of Sep 24
2026-10-19 → 2027-01-31 derived (year inferred)
| period | 2 of 2 |
|---|---|
| restriction |
These are the pages the adapter read for the whole state. This row was not narrowed to a page of its own.
October 15, 16, 19–23, 26–30
opens in 21 days derived as of Sep 24
2026-10-15 → 2026-10-15 derived (year inferred)
2026-10-16 → 2026-10-16 derived (year inferred)
2026-10-19 → 2026-10-23 derived (year inferred)
2026-10-26 → 2026-10-30 derived (year inferred)
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| restriction |
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October 31–November 1
opens in 37 days derived as of Sep 24
2026-10-31 → 2026-11-01 derived (year inferred)
| period | 1 of 2 |
|---|---|
| restriction | Youth only |
These are the pages the adapter read for the whole state. This row was not narrowed to a page of its own.
November 7–December 4
opens in 44 days derived as of Sep 24
2026-11-07 → 2026-12-04 derived (year inferred)
| period | 2 of 2 |
|---|---|
| restriction |
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December 5–31
opens in 72 days derived as of Sep 24
2026-12-05 → 2026-12-31 derived (year inferred)
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| restriction |
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November 2–6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 23, 24, 30
opens in 39 days derived as of Sep 24
2026-11-02 → 2026-11-06 derived (year inferred)
2026-11-09 → 2026-11-09 derived (year inferred)
2026-11-10 → 2026-11-10 derived (year inferred)
2026-11-12 → 2026-11-12 derived (year inferred)
2026-11-13 → 2026-11-13 derived (year inferred)
2026-11-16 → 2026-11-16 derived (year inferred)
2026-11-17 → 2026-11-17 derived (year inferred)
2026-11-19 → 2026-11-19 derived (year inferred)
2026-11-20 → 2026-11-20 derived (year inferred)
2026-11-23 → 2026-11-23 derived (year inferred)
2026-11-24 → 2026-11-24 derived (year inferred)
2026-11-30 → 2026-11-30 derived (year inferred)
| period | 1 of 4 |
|---|---|
| restriction |
These are the pages the adapter read for the whole state. This row was not narrowed to a page of its own.
December 1, 3, 4, 7–11, 14, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22
opens in 68 days derived as of Sep 24
2026-12-01 → 2026-12-01 derived (year inferred)
2026-12-03 → 2026-12-03 derived (year inferred)
2026-12-04 → 2026-12-04 derived (year inferred)
2026-12-07 → 2026-12-11 derived (year inferred)
2026-12-14 → 2026-12-14 derived (year inferred)
2026-12-15 → 2026-12-15 derived (year inferred)
2026-12-17 → 2026-12-17 derived (year inferred)
2026-12-18 → 2026-12-18 derived (year inferred)
2026-12-21 → 2026-12-21 derived (year inferred)
2026-12-22 → 2026-12-22 derived (year inferred)
| period | 2 of 4 |
|---|---|
| restriction |
These are the pages the adapter read for the whole state. This row was not narrowed to a page of its own.
January 4–8, 11–15, 19–22, 25–29, 2027
opens in 102 days derived as of Sep 24
2027-01-04 → 2027-01-08 derived (year inferred)
2027-01-11 → 2027-01-15 derived (year inferred)
2027-01-19 → 2027-01-22 derived (year inferred)
2027-01-25 → 2027-01-29 derived
| period | 3 of 4 |
|---|---|
| restriction |
These are the pages the adapter read for the whole state. This row was not narrowed to a page of its own.
February 1–5, 8–12, 2027
opens in 130 days derived as of Sep 24
2027-02-01 → 2027-02-05 derived (year inferred)
2027-02-08 → 2027-02-12 derived
| period | 4 of 4 |
|---|---|
| restriction |
These are the pages the adapter read for the whole state. This row was not narrowed to a page of its own.
October 13–16
opens in 19 days derived as of Sep 24
2026-10-13 → 2026-10-16 derived (year inferred)
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| value | see page 8 for bag/season limit information |
|---|
These are the pages the adapter read for the whole state. This row was not narrowed to a page of its own.
| value | 2026–2027 |
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These are the pages the adapter read for the whole state. This row was not narrowed to a page of its own.
| applies_to | every table on this page |
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| marker |
These are the pages the adapter read for the whole state. This row was not narrowed to a page of its own.
| applies_to | Migratory Game Bird Hunting (the marker is printed on that heading) |
|---|---|
| marker | * |
These are the pages the adapter read for the whole state. This row was not narrowed to a page of its own.
| applies_to | Ducks, Sea Ducks, Mergansers and Coots, in the Migratory Game Bird table (the marker is printed on that season name) |
|---|---|
| marker | ** |
These are the pages the adapter read for the whole state. This row was not narrowed to a page of its own.
That is the direction that ends in a citation, or in a hunter on ground the state has closed. Read the signals below before you use any row on this page.
Derived by rule from this record's own declared gaps, its own integrity fields and its own rows. It is not a score and there is no confidence number: the counts below count signals, nothing more.
overOVER: the gap names a restriction, requirement, closure or supersession the record does not carry [limit_or_quota='season limit', hours_method_zone='SHOOTING HOURS']; a row read without it is broader than the regulation
unknowncannot be determined: the gap carries regulation but its description names neither a restriction nor an opportunity in terms this rule can read (kind='other species'). Boundary, map and definition gaps land here and belong here — not knowing which unit you are in cuts both ways
unknown2 page boundary/boundaries beside the cited range were never inspected. A table that continues past a citation loses whole rows — the missing rows could be further seasons (under) or the restrictions on the ones published (over), and this is the check five states went OFFLINE for skipping.
carries_regulation flag at face value. A gap mis-declared as non-regulatory is a silent miss.Current through — the document this record was read from, and nothing later than it:
2026-2027 Rhode Island Hunting & Trapping Guide, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, p.34 (folio 31), "Hunting Seasons Summary" — Deer Hunting
We fetched it on 2026-08-08. That is our retrieval date, not a publication date. This record carries no date on which its publisher issued, adopted, amended or last revised that document, so this page states none. Any effective, issue or adoption date the document states of itself is inside the citation above, in the publisher’s own words — nothing here lifts it out or restates it as a fact of ours.
derived Rhode Island declares 4 gaps, of which 2 are regulation this compilation does not carry.
cross-references
**Rhode Island's deer bag and season limits are not on this page.** The heading says "see page 8 for bag/season limit information" and that pointer is carried as a `limit` row, but the numbers themselves are on folio 8 and are not compiled here. Neither are the ZONE DEFINITIONS: this page names Zones 1, 2, 3 and 4, Block Island and Patience and Prudence Islands, and says nowhere which land is in which zone. A hunter cannot use these rows without both. **Nor are the LEGAL SHOOTING HOURS, and this page does not point at them.** PDF page 35 (folio 32) -- the page immediately after the cited one -- prints a `Legal Shooting Hours` table whose Deer row reads "1/2 hour before Sunrise until 1/2 hour after Sunset". That is a binding deer rule, it is in this same file, it is one page away, and nothing on page 34 mentions it: the deer heading points only to folio 8. Found by rendering the pages either side of the cited range, which is the check three states went offline this cycle for not running. It is NOT a continuation of this table -- page 35 is a different table under a different heading and page 33 is photo submissions, so `PAGE` is not one page short -- but a compilation that publishes Rhode Island's deer seasons and stays silent about when it is legal to shoot during them is silent about something a hunter needs.
derived family: cross-reference
Who does have it
Not us. Rhode Island’s agency publishes the document this record was read from, and that document — not this page — is where the material above has to be chased:
https://dem.ri.gov/media/36651/download#page=34Where the description above names some other document, register, office or telephone number, that naming is the record’s own and is printed in full above. Nothing here has followed it up for you, and nothing here has re-typed it.
other species
The same page carries three more season tables -- Migratory Game Bird (13 rows), Wild Turkey (4) and Small Game (9). They are read and ruled out line by line with a reason rather than swept, but they are NOT published: this compilation is white-tailed deer. 26 seasons for other species are on this page and in no row of this record.
derived family: scope of the compilation
Who does have it
Not us. Rhode Island’s agency publishes the document this record was read from, and that document — not this page — is where the material above has to be chased:
https://dem.ri.gov/media/36651/download#page=34Where the description above names some other document, register, office or telephone number, that naming is the record’s own and is printed in full above. Nothing here has followed it up for you, and nothing here has re-typed it.
figure
**The whole page is one raster image** -- `page_graphics` returns 100.0%, and pdfplumber finds 0 rects, 0 lines and 0 curves on it. Every band, rule and column divider exists only in the pixels; the text is an invisible overlay. It is declared because a 100% figure is exactly what a state should have to say out loud. It does NOT carry regulation the rows omit: the rendered page was transcribed by eye first and all seven deer seasons were then diffed against the rows.
derived family: figure/diagram/chart
provenance
**The source file contains this guide twice, at a +30 page offset, and the second copy has lost the Th and ft ligature glyphs** (140 occurrences of 'Th' in pages 9-35 against 5 in pages 39-65). Pages 37-66 are not read. Anyone re-verifying this citation must read page 34 and not page 64: they are the same page, page 64's text has dropped characters, and no undecodable-glyph check can see it because the dropped glyphs produce no character at all.
derived family: source availability
100.0% of 99 text runs, one per (baseline, table column), reconstructed character-by-character from the page's invisible text layer and split only on the literal space characters in it; the whole page, which is four species tables, their headings and their footnotes
derived: this percentage is over the units named above, on the pages this record cites. It is not a percentage of the state's regulation. The gaps above are what a full percentage would have to count and cannot.
These are not gaps.
The Booklet is not the law and is not an official edition of any state’s regulations: no state agency writes, reviews, publishes or approves it, and where a page here differs from the agency document it cites, the agency document is the regulation and this page is wrong.
It is an editorial compilation of state agency regulation documents: every row is carried verbatim out of one named document, cited by title, identified by the sha256 of the exact bytes we read, and printed beside the source lines it was read from.