This record does not carry a regulation the state has. kind: graphic — description: **p.18 -- a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark drawn in vector curves covering 14.7% of the page, and it exists in NO TEXT LAYER.** The string "DRAFT" occurs ZERO times in the text of all 349 pages (counted in this record); the watermark was found by rendering the page and looking at it, which is the only method that could have found it. It is declared as CARRYING REGULATION, and that is the harder answer rather than the easy one: it states no rule a hunter must obey, but it is the instrument's own statement about whether the text underneath it is in force, which changes what every row read off these pages means. That is why it is not only declared here -- it is carried on every row of this record in the `filing_status` field. **A GAP IS NOT ON THE ROW**, and a watermark that qualifies nine pages of regulation is exactly the qualifier that rule was written for.
This record does not carry a regulation the state has. kind: graphic — description: **p.19 -- the same "DRAFT" watermark, measured separately on this page: 14.7% of the page in vector curves, 0 occurrences in the text layer.** Declared per page rather than once, because a gap declared about one page says nothing about another -- the lesson South Carolina and Idaho paid for. Carried on every row read off this page as `filing_status`.
This record does not carry a regulation the state has. kind: graphic — description: **p.20 -- the same "DRAFT" watermark, measured separately on this page: 14.7% of the page in vector curves, 0 occurrences in the text layer.** Declared per page rather than once, because a gap declared about one page says nothing about another -- the lesson South Carolina and Idaho paid for. Carried on every row read off this page as `filing_status`.
This record does not carry a regulation the state has. kind: graphic — description: **p.21 -- the same "DRAFT" watermark, measured separately on this page: 14.7% of the page in vector curves, 0 occurrences in the text layer.** Declared per page rather than once, because a gap declared about one page says nothing about another -- the lesson South Carolina and Idaho paid for. Carried on every row read off this page as `filing_status`.
This record does not carry a regulation the state has. kind: graphic — description: **p.22 -- the same "DRAFT" watermark, measured separately on this page: 14.7% of the page in vector curves, 0 occurrences in the text layer.** Declared per page rather than once, because a gap declared about one page says nothing about another -- the lesson South Carolina and Idaho paid for. Carried on every row read off this page as `filing_status`.
This record does not carry a regulation the state has. kind: graphic — description: **p.23 -- the same "DRAFT" watermark, measured separately on this page: 14.7% of the page in vector curves, 0 occurrences in the text layer.** Declared per page rather than once, because a gap declared about one page says nothing about another -- the lesson South Carolina and Idaho paid for. Carried on every row read off this page as `filing_status`.
This record does not carry a regulation the state has. kind: graphic — description: **p.24 -- the same "DRAFT" watermark, measured separately on this page: 14.7% of the page in vector curves, 0 occurrences in the text layer.** Declared per page rather than once, because a gap declared about one page says nothing about another -- the lesson South Carolina and Idaho paid for. Carried on every row read off this page as `filing_status`.
This record does not carry a regulation the state has. kind: graphic — description: **p.25 -- the same "DRAFT" watermark, measured separately on this page: 14.7% of the page in vector curves, 0 occurrences in the text layer.** Declared per page rather than once, because a gap declared about one page says nothing about another -- the lesson South Carolina and Idaho paid for. Carried on every row read off this page as `filing_status`.
This record does not carry a regulation the state has. kind: graphic — description: **p.26 -- the same "DRAFT" watermark, measured separately on this page: 14.7% of the page in vector curves, 0 occurrences in the text layer.** Declared per page rather than once, because a gap declared about one page says nothing about another -- the lesson South Carolina and Idaho paid for. Carried on every row read off this page as `filing_status`.
This record does not carry a regulation the state has. kind: annotated-text — description: **pp.27-36 carry THE SAME RULE a second time, in annotated form, and this compilation does not read them.** They are the filing's required annotated text: the repealed and the adopted words printed adjacently with no strike-through in the text layer. That is the reason this state is registered HOSTILE, because those pages read as clean sentences and are wrong -- "For the nine fourteen consecutive calendar days commencing on the first Saturday Monday after the completion of the regular rifle deer hunting season" (p.30, the December muzzleloader season, both values in one sentence); "the Saturday and Sunday three one weeks prior" (p.34, the youth weekend, one word apart from the law); "October 1 through December 15., except during the regular rifle deer hunting season:" (p.31, an archery closure the amendment REMOVED); and a whole section, "8.0 Regular Rifle Season" (p.33), that the amendment renumbered to 6.0 and rewrote. **They carry regulation in the sense that the adopted half of each is the rule this record publishes from the clean text; what this record does not carry is the repealed half, i.e. what changed.** `core.continues_past_citation` flags p.27 as an uncited neighbour that draws a vertical rule the cited p.26 does not; it is this annotated text, rendered and read, and not a continuation of the clean-text table.
This record does not carry a regulation the state has. kind: cross-references — description: **The rule is written on top of statutes and a unit map, and this compilation carries none of them.** Cited by the provisions published here: 10 V.S.A. §§ 4081(b), 4081(g), 4082, 4082(c), 4084 (the authority for the regular season formula), 4001(33) (what a muzzleloading firearm is), 4152, 4252, 4252(b), 4253, 4710, 4742a (the authority for the youth weekend), 4921-4925; and 10 App. V.S.A. § 2 and § 2b. **§ 2b is the one that bites**: it defines the Wildlife Management Units, and the Legal Buck definition at 3.8 splits the state into two different antler rules by unit letter while the expanded archery zone "Wildlife Management Unit A" is defined by pointing at it. A hunter cannot tell from this record which ground is in which unit.
This record does not carry a regulation the state has. kind: board-annual-determinations — description: **Four provisions published here hand a decision to the Board that the Board makes ANNUALLY and OUTSIDE this rule, and this record cannot say what it decided.** 4.2: "Annually, the Board shall determine how many antlerless permits to issue in each wildlife management unit." 9.2(b): antlerless archery is limited to "Wildlife Management Units declared open by the Board to the taking of antlerless deer". 10.2 and 11.2: a youth or novice may take "any deer if the Board has authorized the taking of antlerless deer during youth hunting weekend". **So the antlerless half of four of the seven season rows here is conditional on a determination this document does not contain** -- which is the Hawaii shape, where the chapter fixes the form and an annual announcement fixes the year. It is declared rather than guessed, and the season rows carry the condition in their verbatim `limit` field rather than resolving it.

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deer · 2026

What this is, and what it is not

huntregs 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.

What we do carry

What we do not carry

Error direction — If this record is wrong, it is most likely wrong toward saying you MAY do something you may not.

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.

2 over-permissive · 14 undeterminable · 0 under-permissive · 14 declared gap(s), 12 of which the record says carry regulation · 64 row(s) scanned

14 signal(s), most dangerous first. The evidence lines below are the rule's own excerpts, cut at 220 characters; every gap is printed in full and verbatim under what this record does not carry.

overOVER: the gap names a restriction, requirement, closure or supersession the record does not carry [closure='closure', obligation='required']; a row read without it is broader than the regulation

known_gaps[9]: **pp.27-36 carry THE SAME RULE a second time, in annotated form, and this compilation does not read them.** They are the filing's required annotated text: the repealed and the adopted words printed adjacently with no st…

overOVER: the gap names a restriction, requirement, closure or supersession the record does not carry [legal_definition='Legal Buck']; a row read without it is broader than the regulation

known_gaps[12]: **The rule is written on top of statutes and a unit map, and this compilation carries none of them.** Cited by the provisions published here: 10 V.S.A. §§ 4081(b), 4081(g), 4082, 4082(c), 4084 (the authority for the reg…

unknowncannot be determined: the gap carries regulation but its description names neither a restriction nor an opportunity in terms this rule can read (kind='graphic'). Boundary, map and definition gaps land here and belong here — not knowing which unit you are in cuts both ways

known_gaps[0]: **p.18 -- a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark drawn in vector curves covering 14.7% of the page, and it exists in NO TEXT LAYER.** The string "DRAFT" occurs ZERO times in the text of all 349 pages (counted in this record)…

unknowncannot be determined: the gap carries regulation but its description names neither a restriction nor an opportunity in terms this rule can read (kind='graphic'). Boundary, map and definition gaps land here and belong here — not knowing which unit you are in cuts both ways

known_gaps[1]: **p.19 -- the same "DRAFT" watermark, measured separately on this page: 14.7% of the page in vector curves, 0 occurrences in the text layer.** Declared per page rather than once, because a gap declared about one page sa…

unknowncannot be determined: the gap carries regulation but its description names neither a restriction nor an opportunity in terms this rule can read (kind='graphic'). Boundary, map and definition gaps land here and belong here — not knowing which unit you are in cuts both ways

known_gaps[2]: **p.20 -- the same "DRAFT" watermark, measured separately on this page: 14.7% of the page in vector curves, 0 occurrences in the text layer.** Declared per page rather than once, because a gap declared about one page sa…

unknowncannot be determined: the gap carries regulation but its description names neither a restriction nor an opportunity in terms this rule can read (kind='graphic'). Boundary, map and definition gaps land here and belong here — not knowing which unit you are in cuts both ways

known_gaps[3]: **p.21 -- the same "DRAFT" watermark, measured separately on this page: 14.7% of the page in vector curves, 0 occurrences in the text layer.** Declared per page rather than once, because a gap declared about one page sa…

unknowncannot be determined: the gap carries regulation but its description names neither a restriction nor an opportunity in terms this rule can read (kind='graphic'). Boundary, map and definition gaps land here and belong here — not knowing which unit you are in cuts both ways

known_gaps[4]: **p.22 -- the same "DRAFT" watermark, measured separately on this page: 14.7% of the page in vector curves, 0 occurrences in the text layer.** Declared per page rather than once, because a gap declared about one page sa…

unknowncannot be determined: the gap carries regulation but its description names neither a restriction nor an opportunity in terms this rule can read (kind='graphic'). Boundary, map and definition gaps land here and belong here — not knowing which unit you are in cuts both ways

known_gaps[5]: **p.23 -- the same "DRAFT" watermark, measured separately on this page: 14.7% of the page in vector curves, 0 occurrences in the text layer.** Declared per page rather than once, because a gap declared about one page sa…

unknowncannot be determined: the gap carries regulation but its description names neither a restriction nor an opportunity in terms this rule can read (kind='graphic'). Boundary, map and definition gaps land here and belong here — not knowing which unit you are in cuts both ways

known_gaps[6]: **p.24 -- the same "DRAFT" watermark, measured separately on this page: 14.7% of the page in vector curves, 0 occurrences in the text layer.** Declared per page rather than once, because a gap declared about one page sa…

unknowncannot be determined: the gap carries regulation but its description names neither a restriction nor an opportunity in terms this rule can read (kind='graphic'). Boundary, map and definition gaps land here and belong here — not knowing which unit you are in cuts both ways

known_gaps[7]: **p.25 -- the same "DRAFT" watermark, measured separately on this page: 14.7% of the page in vector curves, 0 occurrences in the text layer.** Declared per page rather than once, because a gap declared about one page sa…

unknowncannot be determined: the gap carries regulation but its description names neither a restriction nor an opportunity in terms this rule can read (kind='graphic'). Boundary, map and definition gaps land here and belong here — not knowing which unit you are in cuts both ways

known_gaps[8]: **p.26 -- the same "DRAFT" watermark, measured separately on this page: 14.7% of the page in vector curves, 0 occurrences in the text layer.** Declared per page rather than once, because a gap declared about one page sa…

unknowncannot be determined: the gap carries regulation but its description names neither a restriction nor an opportunity in terms this rule can read (kind='board-annual-determinations'). Boundary, map and definition gaps land here and belong here — not knowing which unit you are in cuts both ways

known_gaps[13]: **Four provisions published here hand a decision to the Board that the Board makes ANNUALLY and OUTSIDE this rule, and this record cannot say what it decided.** 4.2: "Annually, the Board shall determine how many antlerl…

unknown5 page boundary/boundaries beside the cited range were never inspected (1 of them where the UNCITED NEIGHBOUR DRAWS A TABLE). 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.

p27 (beside cited p26) — **THE UNCITED NEIGHBOUR DRAWS A TABLE (1 vertical rules) AND THE CITED PAGE DOES NOT** — this is the cat…

unknown63 row(s) carry `filing_status`: the instrument's standing is qualified. Whether the filed text is stricter or looser than what is in force cannot be told from the record.

Regular Season (section 6.1 of 10 V.S.A. App. § 37): 'FINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020\'s, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State\'s rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing\'s double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board\'s own rules page -- that is the BOARD\'s posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State\'s registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form\'s answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font\'s ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.'
October Muzzleloader Season (section 7.1 of 10 V.S.A. App. § 37): 'FINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020\'s, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State\'s rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing\'s double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board\'s own rules page -- that is the BOARD\'s posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State\'s registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form\'s answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font\'s ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.'
December Muzzleloader Season (section 8.1 of 10 V.S.A. App. § 37): 'FINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020\'s, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State\'s rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing\'s double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board\'s own rules page -- that is the BOARD\'s posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State\'s registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form\'s answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font\'s ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.'
Youth Deer Hunting Weekend (section 10.1 of 10 V.S.A. App. § 37): 'FINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020\'s, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State\'s rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing\'s double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board\'s own rules page -- that is the BOARD\'s posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State\'s registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form\'s answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font\'s ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.'
Novice Season (section 11.1 of 10 V.S.A. App. § 37): 'FINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020\'s, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State\'s rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing\'s double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board\'s own rules page -- that is the BOARD\'s posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State\'s registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form\'s answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font\'s ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.'
Archery Season (section 9.1 of 10 V.S.A. App. § 37): 'FINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020\'s, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State\'s rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing\'s double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board\'s own rules page -- that is the BOARD\'s posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State\'s registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form\'s answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font\'s ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.'
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Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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Not us. Vermont’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://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

Where 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.

graphic

**p.23 -- the same "DRAFT" watermark, measured separately on this page: 14.7% of the page in vector curves, 0 occurrences in the text layer.** Declared per page rather than once, because a gap declared about one page says nothing about another -- the lesson South Carolina and Idaho paid for. Carried on every row read off this page as `filing_status`.

derived family: photograph/graphic/advertisement

Who does have it

Not us. Vermont’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://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

Where 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.

graphic

**p.24 -- the same "DRAFT" watermark, measured separately on this page: 14.7% of the page in vector curves, 0 occurrences in the text layer.** Declared per page rather than once, because a gap declared about one page says nothing about another -- the lesson South Carolina and Idaho paid for. Carried on every row read off this page as `filing_status`.

derived family: photograph/graphic/advertisement

Who does have it

Not us. Vermont’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://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

Where 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.

graphic

**p.25 -- the same "DRAFT" watermark, measured separately on this page: 14.7% of the page in vector curves, 0 occurrences in the text layer.** Declared per page rather than once, because a gap declared about one page says nothing about another -- the lesson South Carolina and Idaho paid for. Carried on every row read off this page as `filing_status`.

derived family: photograph/graphic/advertisement

Who does have it

Not us. Vermont’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://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

Where 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.

graphic

**p.26 -- the same "DRAFT" watermark, measured separately on this page: 14.7% of the page in vector curves, 0 occurrences in the text layer.** Declared per page rather than once, because a gap declared about one page says nothing about another -- the lesson South Carolina and Idaho paid for. Carried on every row read off this page as `filing_status`.

derived family: photograph/graphic/advertisement

Who does have it

Not us. Vermont’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://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

Where 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.

annotated-text

**pp.27-36 carry THE SAME RULE a second time, in annotated form, and this compilation does not read them.** They are the filing's required annotated text: the repealed and the adopted words printed adjacently with no strike-through in the text layer. That is the reason this state is registered HOSTILE, because those pages read as clean sentences and are wrong -- "For the nine fourteen consecutive calendar days commencing on the first Saturday Monday after the completion of the regular rifle deer hunting season" (p.30, the December muzzleloader season, both values in one sentence); "the Saturday and Sunday three one weeks prior" (p.34, the youth weekend, one word apart from the law); "October 1 through December 15., except during the regular rifle deer hunting season:" (p.31, an archery closure the amendment REMOVED); and a whole section, "8.0 Regular Rifle Season" (p.33), that the amendment renumbered to 6.0 and rewrote. **They carry regulation in the sense that the adopted half of each is the rule this record publishes from the clean text; what this record does not carry is the repealed half, i.e. what changed.** `core.continues_past_citation` flags p.27 as an uncited neighbour that draws a vertical rule the cited p.26 does not; it is this annotated text, rendered and read, and not a continuation of the clean-text table.

derived family: other

Who does have it

Not us. Vermont’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://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

Where 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.

cross-references

**The rule is written on top of statutes and a unit map, and this compilation carries none of them.** Cited by the provisions published here: 10 V.S.A. §§ 4081(b), 4081(g), 4082, 4082(c), 4084 (the authority for the regular season formula), 4001(33) (what a muzzleloading firearm is), 4152, 4252, 4252(b), 4253, 4710, 4742a (the authority for the youth weekend), 4921-4925; and 10 App. V.S.A. § 2 and § 2b. **§ 2b is the one that bites**: it defines the Wildlife Management Units, and the Legal Buck definition at 3.8 splits the state into two different antler rules by unit letter while the expanded archery zone "Wildlife Management Unit A" is defined by pointing at it. A hunter cannot tell from this record which ground is in which unit.

derived family: cross-reference

Who does have it

Not us. Vermont’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://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

Where 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.

board-annual-determinations

**Four provisions published here hand a decision to the Board that the Board makes ANNUALLY and OUTSIDE this rule, and this record cannot say what it decided.** 4.2: "Annually, the Board shall determine how many antlerless permits to issue in each wildlife management unit." 9.2(b): antlerless archery is limited to "Wildlife Management Units declared open by the Board to the taking of antlerless deer". 10.2 and 11.2: a youth or novice may take "any deer if the Board has authorized the taking of antlerless deer during youth hunting weekend". **So the antlerless half of four of the seven season rows here is conditional on a determination this document does not contain** -- which is the Hawaii shape, where the chapter fixes the form and an annual announcement fixes the year. It is declared rather than guessed, and the season rows carry the condition in their verbatim `limit` field rather than resolving it.

derived family: other

Who does have it

Not us. Vermont’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://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

Where 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.

2 further gap(s) the record says carry no regulation

declared by the record, which states these carry no regulation. They are published because the reason a thing was not read is part of the evidence.

administrative-record

**pp.3-6, 8-17 and 37-55 are the rest of the rulemaking file and are not read here.** The economic and environmental impact analyses, the public-input maximization plan, the scientific information statement (which cites the Department's "2024 Antlerless Harvest and Youth/Novice Season Recommendation" as the basis for the increased antlerless opportunity), the ICAR minutes of 03-10-25, and the twelve-page Responsiveness Summary in which the Board answers the comments section by section. **None of it is the rule and none of it is what a hunter is bound by**; the Responsiveness Summary is the Board's reasoning, which is evidence about the rule and not the rule. It is named here rather than passed over because the Summary's own headings -- "Moving Youth Weekend", "Establishing Expanded Archery Zones", "Remove Archery Season Closure During...", "Allow Hunters to Take a Conditional 2..." -- independently corroborate the four substantive changes this record publishes from the clean text.

derived family: other

public-comment

**pp.56-349 -- 294 pages, 84% of this document -- are public comment, and they are NOT regulation.** The brief this adapter was built from recorded this block as "pages 72-147"; measured here, the emails begin on p.56 and run to the last page of the file, p.349, and the 30 pages with no text layer at all (72, 75-83, 85, 88, 91-103, 110-113, 147) are scattered inside it rather than being its extent. **The block is not inert: pp.330-341 are a commenter's own marked-up copy of the ANNOTATED rule text, submitted as an attachment**, carrying PDF sticky-note annotations ("Page: 7 / Number: 1 Author: Tovar Subject: Comment on Text Date: 2/26/2025 11:14:37 AM") and with every `fi` ligature mojibaked to `Ʊ` -- "Ʊeld", "Ʊrearm", "Ʊnds", "Bona Ʊde". So the rule text appears in this file THREE times and only the first, pp.18-26, is the clean text of the amendment. Anything that searches this PDF for a season and takes the first or the last hit gets a wrong answer twice out of three.

derived family: other

Coverage

100.0% of pypdf text lines over the nine pages of the CLEAN TEXT of the rule (pp.18-26) plus the three filing-identity pages (pp.1, 2, 7), after core.repair_spacing has been run to a fixed point on each page. 12 pages of 349: the other 337 are the administrative record -- impact analyses, the annotated text, ICAR minutes, the responsiveness summary and 294 pages of public comment -- and every one of those blocks is declared as a gap below rather than swept

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.

12 page(s) cited
1
2
7
18
19
20
21
22
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26
5 page boundary/boundaries never inspected
p3 (beside cited p2) — neither page draws vertical rules — the Arkansas class, and this method cannot see prose, so the continuation check cannot fire. NOT a clean result: it was never inspected.
p6 (beside cited p7) — neither page draws vertical rules — the Arkansas class, and this method cannot see prose, so the continuation check cannot fire. NOT a clean result: it was never inspected.
p8 (beside cited p7) — neither page draws vertical rules — the Arkansas class, and this method cannot see prose, so the continuation check cannot fire. NOT a clean result: it was never inspected.
p17 (beside cited p18) — neither page draws vertical rules — the Arkansas class, and this method cannot see prose, so the continuation check cannot fire. NOT a clean result: it was never inspected.
p27 (beside cited p26) — **THE UNCITED NEIGHBOUR DRAWS A TABLE (1 vertical rules) AND THE CITED PAGE DOES NOT** — this is the category that produced Iowa. RENDER IT AND READ IT BEFORE BELIEVING ANYTHING ELSE ABOUT THIS STATE, so the continuation check cannot fire. NOT a clean result: it was never inspected.
29 library repair(s)
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line: 141; was: V .S.A.; now: V.S.A.; basis: p18: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 144; was: V .S.A.; now: V.S.A.; basis: p18: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 199; was: V .S.A.; now: V.S.A.; basis: p19: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 208; was: V .S.A.; now: V.S.A.; basis: p19: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 214; was: V .S.A.; now: V.S.A.; basis: p19: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 187; was: P ,; now: P,; basis: p19: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 261; was: V .S.A.; now: V.S.A.; basis: p20: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 257; was: V .S.A; now: V.S.A; basis: p20: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 282; was: V .S.A.; now: V.S.A.; basis: p21: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 286; was: V .S.A.; now: V.S.A.; basis: p21: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 305; was: V .S.A.; now: V.S.A.; basis: p21: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 309; was: V .S.A.; now: V.S.A.; basis: p21: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 330; was: V .S.A.; now: V.S.A.; basis: p22: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 337; was: V .S.A.; now: V.S.A.; basis: p22: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 348; was: V .S.A.; now: V.S.A.; basis: p22: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 361; was: T .H.; now: T.H.; basis: p22: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 452; was: “accompanied, ”; now: “accompanied,”; basis: p24: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 451; was: “accompany, ”; now: “accompany,”; basis: p24: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 439; was: V .S.A.; now: V.S.A.; basis: p24: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 462; was: V .S.A.; now: V.S.A.; basis: p24: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 475; was: “accompanied, ”; now: “accompanied,”; basis: p25: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 475; was: “accompany, ”; now: “accompany,”; basis: p25: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 484; was: V .S.A.; now: V.S.A.; basis: p25: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 490; was: V .S.A.; now: V.S.A.; basis: p25: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 500; was: V .S.A.; now: V.S.A.; basis: p25: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 490; was: V .S.A.; now: V.S.A.; basis: p25: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 533; was: V .S.A.; now: V.S.A.; basis: p26: pypdf splits this token and pdfplumber does not; pdfplumber reads this as one word. core.repair_spacing run to a fixed point -- see _repair_page
line: 286; was: 10 V .S.A.§ 4001(33); now: 10 V.S.A.§ 4001(33); basis: p21, section 7.4: pypdf splits the statutory citation into the tokens 'V' and '.S.A.§' and pdfplumber reads 'V.S.A.§'. Only the break INSIDE V.S.A. is closed. pdfplumber merges the section sign onto the preceding word, and repairing on that merged token also closes the space in section 8.4's '10 V.S.A. § 4001(33)' -- which the page prints WITH a space, verified on the pixels at 8x. The two provisions cite the same statute and the source spaces them differently; both are published as printed.
94 swept source line(s) in 3 reason group(s) — NOT declared gaps

These are not gaps.

ruled_out entries are source lines the extractor accounted for and did NOT publish, each with the reason it gave. They are not declared gaps: a declared gap is regulation the record says exists and it does not carry.

34 × — p.1: the Secretary of State's Final Proposed Filing coversheet. Its obligations are rulemaking procedure under 3 V.S.A. ch. 25 binding the AGENCY -- what forms to file, by when, and where -- not deer regulation binding a hunter. The clauses that identify the instrument (the heading, the signature, the signer's title, the rule title) ARE published, in the `scope` row above.
Administrative Procedures
RECEIVED BY: ________
 Coversheet
 Adopting Page
 Economic Impact Analysis
 Environmental Impact Analysis
 Strategy for Maximizing Public Input
 Scientific Information Statement (if applicable)
 Incorporated by Reference Statement (if applicable)
 Clean text of the rule (Amended text without annotation)
 Annotated text (Clearly marking changes from previous rule)
 ICAR Minutes
 Copy of Comments
 Responsiveness Summary
Revised January 10, 2023 page 1
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet
Instructions:
In accordance with Title 3 Chapter 25 of the Vermont Statutes Annotated and the
“Rule on Rulemaking” adopted by the Office of the Secretary of State, this filing will
be considered complete upon filing and acceptance of these forms with the Office of
the Secretary of State, and the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules.
All forms shall be submitted at the Office of the Secretary of State, no later than 3:30
pm on the last scheduled day of the work week.
The data provided in text areas of these forms will be used to generate a notice of
rulemaking in the portal of “Proposed Rule Postings” online, and the newspapers of
record if the rule is marked for publication. Publication of notices will be charged
back to the promulgating agency.
PLEASE REMOVE ANY COVERSHEET OR FORM NOT
REQUIRED WITH THE CURRENT FILING BEFORE DELIVERY!
Certification Statement: As the adopting Authority of this rule (see 3 V.S.A. § 801
(b) (11) for a definition), I approve the contents of this filing entitled:
(signature) (date)
Printed Name and Title:
Department of Fish and Wildlife
34 × — p.2: the coversheet's contact block -- the Secretary of State's proposed rule number, two named contacts, their addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and the records-exemption question answered "No". The proposed number 25P014 and the rule title ARE published, in the `scope` row above; a fax number is not deer regulation.
Administrative Procedures
Final Proposed Filing – Coversheet
Revised January 10, 2023 page 2
3. ADOPTING AGENCY:
Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board
4. PRIMARY CONTACT PERSON:
(A PERSON WHO IS ABLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CONTENT OF THE RULE).
Name: Hannah Smith
Agency: Department of Fish and Wildlife, Agency of
Natural Resources
Mailing Address: 1 National Life Drive, Davis 2,
Montpelier, Vermont 05602
Telephone: 802-461-8187 Fax: 802-828-1250
E-Mail: hannah.smith@vermont.gov
Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED):
https://vtfishandwildlife.com/about-us/fish-and-
wildlife-board/board-rules
5. SECONDARY CONTACT PERSON:
(A SPECIFIC PERSON FROM WHOM COPIES OF FILINGS MAY BE REQUESTED OR WHO MAY
ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT FORMS SUBMITTED FOR FILING IF DIFFERENT FROM THE
PRIMARY CONTACT PERSON).
Name: Nick Fortin
Agency: Department of Fish and Wildlife, Agency of
Natural Resources
Mailing Address: 271 North Main Street, Suite 215
Rutland, Vermont 05701
Telephone: 802-786-0040 Fax: 802-828-1250
E-Mail: nick.fortin@vermont.gov
6. RECORDS EXEMPTION INCLUDED WITHIN RULE:
(DOES THE RULE CONTAIN ANY PROVISION DESIGNATING INFORMATION AS CONFIDENTIAL;
LIMITING ITS PUBLIC RELEASE; OR OTHERWISE, EXEMPTING IT FROM INSPECTION AND
COPYING?) No
IF YES, CITE THE STATUTORY AUTHORITY FOR THE EXEMPTION:
PLEASE SUMMARIZE THE REASON FOR THE EXEMPTION:
26 × — p.7: the Adopting Page. Its instructions bind the agency's filing (an annotated text must accompany the filing and must clearly show the changes), and its dropdown definitions of AMENDMENT / NEW RULE / REPEAL define the filing type, not a deer season. The filing type, the rule it amends and that rule's 2020 effective date ARE published, in the `scope` row above.
Administrative Procedures
Adopting Page
Revised January 10, 2023 page 1
Adopting Page
Instructions:
This form must accompany each filing made during the rulemaking process:
Note: To satisfy the requirement for an annotated text, an agency must submit the entire
rule in annotated form with proposed and final proposed filings. Filing an annotated
paragraph or page of a larger rule is not sufficient. Annotation must clearly show the
changes to the rule.
When possible, the agency shall file the annotated text, using the appropriate page or
pages from the Code of Vermont Rules as a basis for the annotated version. New rules
need not be accompanied by an annotated text.
2. ADOPTING AGENCY:
Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board
3. TYPE OF FILING (PLEASE CHOOSE THE TYPE OF FILING FROM THE DROPDOWN MENU
BASED ON THE DEFINITIONS PROVIDED BELOW):
• AMENDMENT - Any change to an already existing rule,
even if it is a complete rewrite of the rule, it is considered
an amendment if the rule is replaced with other text.
• NEW RULE - A rule that did not previously exist even under
a different name.
• REPEAL - The removal of a rule in its entirety, without
replacing it with other text.
4. LAST ADOPTED (PLEASE PROVIDE THE SOS LOG#, TITLE AND EFFECTIVE DATE OF
THE LAST ADOPTION FOR THE EXISTING RULE):

the same view across all records →

Any date that comes back is computed by you, in this app, for the year you picked. The source does not print it and this compilation does not assert it.

season (7)

Regular Season (section 6.1 of 10 V.S.A. App. § 37)

Season Dates: Pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 4084 for 16 consecutive days commencing 12 days prior to Thanksgiving Day.

resolves from an anchor date each year — the verbatim rule above is the regulation

compute this formula for 2026 yourself (user-computed, not published)

USER-COMPUTED, NOT PUBLISHED. The regulation states a formula, not a date. This date was computed by you, in this app, for a year you chose. The source does not print it, this compilation does not assert it, and it is not part of the record. Check the derivation steps against the verbatim text before relying on it.

2026-11-14 (user-computed, not published) → 2026-11-29 (user-computed, not published)

anchored on: Thanksgiving Day (the 4th Thursday of November)

authority cited by the source: 10 V.S.A. § 4084

field caption set aside for the arithmetic: Season Dates

Check the arithmetic — this is the whole derivation:

  1. the record's dates field is captioned "Season Dates:" — that is the page's label for the field, not part of the formula, and it was set aside for the arithmetic only
  2. authority cited by the source: 10 V.S.A. § 4084 (this says under what power the season is set, not when it runs)
  3. the source says, verbatim: "Season Dates: Pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 4084 for 16 consecutive days commencing 12 days prior to Thanksgiving Day."
  4. Thanksgiving Day 2026 = the 4th Thursday of November = Thursday November 26, 2026
  5. 12 days prior to November 26, 2026 = Saturday November 14, 2026
  6. 16 consecutive days from November 14, 2026 = November 14, 2026 to Sunday November 29, 2026

The record still says what the record says: its resolution is formula_unresolved and it carries no dates for this row. Nothing above is part of it.

field caption carried by the record and set aside before the dates were derived: Season Dates

anchored_onThanksgiving Day, a movable feast, so the whole cascade below falls on different calendar dates every year
cascadeThanksgiving Day -> 6.1 Regular Season
dates_are_stated_asa formula
depends_onnothing in this rule -- 6.1 IS the anchor. Sections 7.1, 8.1 and 10.1 are each measured from it and 11.1 is measured from 10.1, so moving Thanksgiving Day moves five of the seven seasons here.
filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
limit6.2 Limit: (a) One legal buck, not to exceed the annual limit as prescribed in Section 5.1 of this rule, and (b) One antlerless deer per antlerless deer permit, not to exceed the annual limit as prescribed in section 5.1 of this rule.
no_date_is_computedPUBLISHED VERBATIM; NOTHING IS COMPUTED. Where `dates` states a formula rather than calendar dates, the formula IS the regulation and this compilation does not resolve it into a date. Resolving one would be this product asserting a fact the source does not state -- the falsified-label class -- and it is forbidden by California's precedent in gate.py, followed by Kansas and New Hampshire.
section6.1
specieswhite-tailed deer
show me the page

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6.2 Limit:
(a) One legal buck, not to exceed the annual limit as prescribed in Section 5.1 of this rule,
and
(b) One antlerless deer per antlerless deer permit, not to exceed the annual limit as
prescribed in section 5.1 of this rule.
6.0 Regular Season
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .
6.1 Season Dates: Pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 4084 for 16 consecutive days commencing 12 days prior
to Thanksgiving Day.
6.0 Regular Season

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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October Muzzleloader Season (section 7.1 of 10 V.S.A. App. § 37)

Season Dates: For four consecutive days, commencing on the Thursday 16 days prior to the opening day of the regular season.

resolves from an anchor date each year — the verbatim rule above is the regulation

compute this formula for 2026 yourself (user-computed, not published)

USER-COMPUTED, NOT PUBLISHED. The regulation states a formula, not a date. This date was computed by you, in this app, for a year you chose. The source does not print it, this compilation does not assert it, and it is not part of the record. Check the derivation steps against the verbatim text before relying on it.

Nothing could be computed from this text for 2026.

anchored on: the opening day of another provision's regular season

field caption set aside for the arithmetic: Season Dates

Check the arithmetic — this is the whole derivation:

  1. the record's dates field is captioned "Season Dates:" — that is the page's label for the field, not part of the formula, and it was set aside for the arithmetic only
  2. the source says, verbatim: "Season Dates: For four consecutive days, commencing on the Thursday 16 days prior to the opening day of the regular season."
  3. start: INDETERMINATE — this formula is measured from another provision (opening day of the regular season), which this row does not state. Supply refs={'regular season': {'start': ..., 'end': ...}} to compute it, or read that row's own dates.

start: not determined — this formula is measured from another provision (opening day of the regular season), which this row does not state. Supply refs={'regular season': {'start': ..., 'end': ...}} to compute it, or read that row's own dates.

Depends on another provision: regular season (open) — read that row; it is not computed here.

The record still says what the record says: its resolution is formula_unresolved and it carries no dates for this row. Nothing above is part of it.

field caption carried by the record and set aside before the dates were derived: Season Dates

anchored_onThanksgiving Day, a movable feast, so the whole cascade below falls on different calendar dates every year
cascadeThanksgiving Day -> 6.1 Regular Season -> 7.1 October Muzzleloader Season
dates_are_stated_asa formula
depends_onsection 6.1 of this rule (Regular Season) -- this season is counted back from "the opening day of the regular season", which 6.1 fixes relative to Thanksgiving Day
filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
limit7.2 Limit: A person may take one antlerless deer per antlerless deer permit, not to exceed the annual limit as prescribed in section 5.1 of this rule.
no_date_is_computedPUBLISHED VERBATIM; NOTHING IS COMPUTED. Where `dates` states a formula rather than calendar dates, the formula IS the regulation and this compilation does not resolve it into a date. Resolving one would be this product asserting a fact the source does not state -- the falsified-label class -- and it is forbidden by California's precedent in gate.py, followed by Kansas and New Hampshire.
section7.1
specieswhite-tailed deer
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7.2 Limit: A person may take one antlerless deer per antlerless deer permit, not to exceed the
annual limit as prescribed in section 5.1 of this rule.
7.0 October Muzzleloader Season.
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .
7.1 Season Dates: For four consecutive days, commencing on the Thursday 16 days prior to the
opening day of the regular season.
7.0 October Muzzleloader Season.

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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December Muzzleloader Season (section 8.1 of 10 V.S.A. App. § 37)

Season Dates: For the fourteen consecutive calendar days commencing on the first Monday after the completion of the regular season.

resolves from an anchor date each year — the verbatim rule above is the regulation

compute this formula for 2026 yourself (user-computed, not published)

USER-COMPUTED, NOT PUBLISHED. The regulation states a formula, not a date. This date was computed by you, in this app, for a year you chose. The source does not print it, this compilation does not assert it, and it is not part of the record. Check the derivation steps against the verbatim text before relying on it.

Nothing could be computed from this text for 2026.

anchored on: the closing day of another provision's regular season

field caption set aside for the arithmetic: Season Dates

Check the arithmetic — this is the whole derivation:

  1. the record's dates field is captioned "Season Dates:" — that is the page's label for the field, not part of the formula, and it was set aside for the arithmetic only
  2. the source says, verbatim: "Season Dates: For the fourteen consecutive calendar days commencing on the first Monday after the completion of the regular season."
  3. start: INDETERMINATE — this formula is measured from another provision (completion of the regular season), which this row does not state. Supply refs={'regular season': {'start': ..., 'end': ...}} to compute it, or read that row's own dates.

start: not determined — this formula is measured from another provision (completion of the regular season), which this row does not state. Supply refs={'regular season': {'start': ..., 'end': ...}} to compute it, or read that row's own dates.

Depends on another provision: regular season (close) — read that row; it is not computed here.

The record still says what the record says: its resolution is formula_unresolved and it carries no dates for this row. Nothing above is part of it.

field caption carried by the record and set aside before the dates were derived: Season Dates

anchored_onThanksgiving Day, a movable feast, so the whole cascade below falls on different calendar dates every year
cascadeThanksgiving Day -> 6.1 Regular Season -> 8.1 December Muzzleloader Season
dates_are_stated_asa formula
depends_onsection 6.1 of this rule (Regular Season) -- this season runs from "the completion of the regular season", whose length 6.1 fixes at 16 consecutive days
filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
limit8.2 Limit: (a) One legal buck, not to exceed the annual limit as prescribed in Section 5.1 of this rule, and (b) One antlerless deer per antlerless deer permit, not to exceed the annual limit as prescribed in section 5.1 of this rule.
no_date_is_computedPUBLISHED VERBATIM; NOTHING IS COMPUTED. Where `dates` states a formula rather than calendar dates, the formula IS the regulation and this compilation does not resolve it into a date. Resolving one would be this product asserting a fact the source does not state -- the falsified-label class -- and it is forbidden by California's precedent in gate.py, followed by Kansas and New Hampshire.
section8.1
specieswhite-tailed deer
show me the page

No page is shown. no corpus PDF matches this record: no file hashes to 907cf2ba66defa8a... and no .pdf.source sidecar names 'https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf'. The source was most likely not a PDF, or the PDF is not in the corpus.

source
8.2 Limit:
(a) One legal buck, not to exceed the annual limit as prescribed in Section 5.1 of this rule,
and
(b) One antlerless deer per antlerless deer permit, not to exceed the annual limit as
prescribed in section 5.1 of this rule.
8.0 December Muzzleloader Season.
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .
8.1 Season Dates: For the fourteen consecutive calendar days commencing on the first Monday
after the completion of the regular season.
8.0 December Muzzleloader Season.

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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Youth Deer Hunting Weekend (section 10.1 of 10 V.S.A. App. § 37)

Season Dates: Pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 4742a, the Saturday and Sunday one week prior to the opening day of the regular season shall be youth deer hunting weekend.

resolves from an anchor date each year — the verbatim rule above is the regulation

This formula could not be resolved. The verbatim rule above is the regulation, and nothing is computed from it here.

field caption carried by the record and set aside before the dates were derived: Season Dates

anchored_onThanksgiving Day, a movable feast, so the whole cascade below falls on different calendar dates every year
cascadeThanksgiving Day -> 6.1 Regular Season -> 10.1 Youth Deer Hunting Weekend
dates_are_stated_asa formula
depends_onsection 6.1 of this rule (Regular Season) -- "one week prior to the opening day of the regular season", which 6.1 fixes relative to Thanksgiving Day
filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
limit10.2 Limit: One white-tailed deer. One legal buck may be taken during the youth deer hunting weekend, or any deer if the Board has authorized the taking of antlerless deer during youth hunting weekend.
no_date_is_computedPUBLISHED VERBATIM; NOTHING IS COMPUTED. Where `dates` states a formula rather than calendar dates, the formula IS the regulation and this compilation does not resolve it into a date. Resolving one would be this product asserting a fact the source does not state -- the falsified-label class -- and it is forbidden by California's precedent in gate.py, followed by Kansas and New Hampshire.
section10.1
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10.2 Limit: One white-tailed deer. One legal buck may be taken during the youth deer hunting
weekend, or any deer if the Board has authorized the taking of antlerless deer during youth hunting
weekend.
10.0 Youth Deer Hunting Weekend
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .
10.1 Season Dates: Pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 4742a, the Saturday and Sunday one week prior to the
opening day of the regular season shall be youth deer hunting weekend.
10.0 Youth Deer Hunting Weekend

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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Novice Season (section 11.1 of 10 V.S.A. App. § 37)

Season Dates: This season shall be concurrent with the Youth Deer Hunting Weekend as prescribed in 10 V.S.A. § 4742a and section 10.1 of this rule.

resolves from an anchor date each year — the verbatim rule above is the regulation

This formula could not be resolved. The verbatim rule above is the regulation, and nothing is computed from it here.

field caption carried by the record and set aside before the dates were derived: Season Dates

anchored_onThanksgiving Day, a movable feast, so the whole cascade below falls on different calendar dates every year
cascadeThanksgiving Day -> 6.1 Regular Season -> 10.1 Youth Deer Hunting Weekend -> 11.1 Novice Season
dates_are_stated_asa formula
depends_onsection 10.1 of this rule (Youth Deer Hunting Weekend), which is itself measured from section 6.1 (Regular Season). THIS IS THE ONE TWO-STEP DEPENDENCY IN THE RULE: 11.1 names no date and no month at all, so a reader who has not followed 11.1 -> 10.1 -> 6.1 -> Thanksgiving Day does not know when it runs.
filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
limit11.2 Limit: One white-tailed deer. One legal buck may be taken during this season, or any deer if the Board has authorized the taking of antlerless deer during youth hunting weekend.
no_date_is_computedPUBLISHED VERBATIM; NOTHING IS COMPUTED. Where `dates` states a formula rather than calendar dates, the formula IS the regulation and this compilation does not resolve it into a date. Resolving one would be this product asserting a fact the source does not state -- the falsified-label class -- and it is forbidden by California's precedent in gate.py, followed by Kansas and New Hampshire.
section11.1
specieswhite-tailed deer
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11.2 Limit: One white-tailed deer. One legal buck may be taken during this season, or any deer if the
Board has authorized the taking of antlerless deer during youth hunting weekend.
11.0 Novice Season
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .
11.1 Season Dates: This season shall be concurrent with the Youth Deer Hunting Weekend as
prescribed in 10 V.S.A. § 4742a and section 10.1 of this rule.
11.0 Novice Season

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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Archery Season (section 9.1 of 10 V.S.A. App. § 37)

Season Dates: October 1 through December 15.

2026-10-01 → 2026-12-15 derived (year inferred)

field caption carried by the record and set aside before the dates were derived: Season Dates

anchored_onthe calendar -- this provision prints literal dates and no anchor
cascadeOctober 1 -> December 15 (no dependency on any other section)
dates_are_stated_asliteral calendar dates
depends_onnothing. THIS IS ONE OF THE TWO LITERAL-DATE PROVISIONS IN THE RULE; the other is 9.6(a), which moves this season's opening for eight named zones and is carried on this row.
expanded_zone_antlerless_only_windowFrom September 15 to September 30, only antlerless deer may be taken.
expanded_zone_openingWithin these zones, the archery season shall begin September 15.
expanded_zone_qualifierTHIS ROW IS NOT THE WHOLE ARCHERY SEASON. Section 9.6(a) moves the opening to September 15 inside the eight zones named in `expanded_zones`, and closes September 15-30 to everything but antlerless deer. The zone boundaries are published as `scope` rows of this record, verbatim; the September 15 opening is published as a season row of its own.
expanded_zonesWildlife Management Unit A; Newport; Burlington Area; Montpelier; Saint Johnsbury Area; Rutland Area; Bennington Area; Brattleboro Area
filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
limit9.2 Limit: (a) One legal buck, not to exceed the annual limit as prescribed in Section 5.1 of this rule, and (b) In Wildlife Management Units declared open by the Board to the taking of antlerless deer, a person may take one antlerless deer per archery antlerless deer tag, not to exceed the annual limit as prescribed in Section 5.1 of this rule.
no_date_is_computedPUBLISHED VERBATIM; NOTHING IS COMPUTED. Where `dates` states a formula rather than calendar dates, the formula IS the regulation and this compilation does not resolve it into a date. Resolving one would be this product asserting a fact the source does not state -- the falsified-label class -- and it is forbidden by California's precedent in gate.py, followed by Kansas and New Hampshire.
section9.1
specieswhite-tailed deer
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(a) Within these zones, the archery season shall begin September 15. From September 15 to
September 30, only antlerless deer may be taken.
9.6 Expanded Archery Zones
(b) Zone Boundaries
9.2 Limit:
(a) One legal buck, not to exceed the annual limit as prescribed in Section 5.1 of this rule,
and
(b) In Wildlife Management Units declared open by the Board to the taking of antlerless
deer, a person may take one antlerless deer per archery antlerless deer tag, not to exceed
the annual limit as prescribed in Section 5.1 of this rule.
9.0 Archery Season
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .
9.1 Season Dates: October 1 through December 15.
9.0 Archery Season

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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Archery Season, Expanded Archery Zones (section 9.6 of 10 V.S.A. App. § 37)

Within these zones, the archery season shall begin September 15. From September 15 to September 30, only antlerless deer may be taken.

not machine-read — the verbatim text above is the regulation

anchored_onthe calendar -- this provision prints literal dates and no anchor
cascadeSeptember 15 (9.6(a), opening inside the zones) -- 9.1 October 1 through December 15 governs everywhere else
dates_are_stated_asliteral calendar dates
depends_onnothing for its OPENING -- 9.6(a) prints September 15 outright, and it is the second of the rule's two literal-date provisions. It runs the other way from every other dependency here: it does not take a date from section 9.1, it REPLACES 9.1's October 1 opening inside eight named zones. **9.6(a) speaks only about the beginning.** It says nothing about when the season closes, so section 9.1's "through December 15" is the only closing date the rule states for these zones; that is a reading of two provisions and is flagged as one, and this record does not compose them into a range.
expanded_zone_antlerless_only_windowFrom September 15 to September 30, only antlerless deer may be taken.
expanded_zone_openingWithin these zones, the archery season shall begin September 15.
expanded_zone_qualifierThis row states the season INSIDE the eight zones named in `expanded_zones` only. Everywhere else in Vermont the archery season is the one in `statewide_archery_season`. Both are printed as literal dates and neither is computed. Note what 9.6(a) does NOT say: it moves the opening and is silent about the close, and it is silent about whether antlerless deer taken in the September 15-30 window need the archery antlerless deer tag 9.2(b) requires.
expanded_zonesWildlife Management Unit A; Newport; Burlington Area; Montpelier; Saint Johnsbury Area; Rutland Area; Bennington Area; Brattleboro Area
filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
limit9.2 Limit: (a) One legal buck, not to exceed the annual limit as prescribed in Section 5.1 of this rule, and (b) In Wildlife Management Units declared open by the Board to the taking of antlerless deer, a person may take one antlerless deer per archery antlerless deer tag, not to exceed the annual limit as prescribed in Section 5.1 of this rule.
no_date_is_computedPUBLISHED VERBATIM; NOTHING IS COMPUTED. Where `dates` states a formula rather than calendar dates, the formula IS the regulation and this compilation does not resolve it into a date. Resolving one would be this product asserting a fact the source does not state -- the falsified-label class -- and it is forbidden by California's precedent in gate.py, followed by Kansas and New Hampshire.
section9.6
specieswhite-tailed deer
statewide_archery_seasonSeason Dates: October 1 through December 15.
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(a) Within these zones, the archery season shall begin September 15. From September 15 to
September 30, only antlerless deer may be taken.
9.6 Expanded Archery Zones
(b) Zone Boundaries
9.2 Limit:
(a) One legal buck, not to exceed the annual limit as prescribed in Section 5.1 of this rule,
and
(b) In Wildlife Management Units declared open by the Board to the taking of antlerless
deer, a person may take one antlerless deer per archery antlerless deer tag, not to exceed
the annual limit as prescribed in Section 5.1 of this rule.
9.0 Archery Season
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .
9.1 Season Dates: October 1 through December 15.
9.0 Archery Season
9.2 Limit:
(a) One legal buck, not to exceed the annual limit as prescribed in Section 5.1 of this rule,
and
(b) In Wildlife Management Units declared open by the Board to the taking of antlerless
deer, a person may take one antlerless deer per archery antlerless deer tag, not to exceed
the annual limit as prescribed in Section 5.1 of this rule.
9.0 Archery Season

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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amendsSOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020.
effective_date_of_this_amendmentNOT STATED IN THIS DOCUMENT. Counted over all 349 pages: "Cite as" 0, "January 1, 2026" 0, "effective date" 0. This compilation does not supply one.
filing_title_as_printed10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule
filing_typeAN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE
rule_title_as_printed§ 37. Deer Management Rule
signed/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025
sos_proposed_number25P014
valueFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
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Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule
/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025
Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner
Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board
1. TITLE OF RULE FILING:
10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule
2. PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE
25P014
1. TITLE OF RULE FILING:
10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .
SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective
January 1, 2020.
§ 37. Deer Management Rule

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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Expanded Archery Zone -- Wildlife Management Unit A

applies_tosection 9.6 of 10 V.S.A. App. § 37: within this zone the archery season opens September 15, and from September 15 to September 30 only antlerless deer may be taken
filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section9.6(b)
valueAll of Wildlife Management Unit A as described in 10 App. V.S.A. § 2b.
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Wildlife Management Unit A
All of Wildlife Management Unit A as described in 10 App. V.S.A. § 2b.
9.6 Expanded Archery Zones
(b) Zone Boundaries
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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Expanded Archery Zone -- Newport

applies_tosection 9.6 of 10 V.S.A. App. § 37: within this zone the archery season opens September 15, and from September 15 to September 30 only antlerless deer may be taken
filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section9.6(b)
valueAll lands within the city of Newport.
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Newport
All lands within the city of Newport.
9.6 Expanded Archery Zones
(b) Zone Boundaries
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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Expanded Archery Zone -- Burlington Area

applies_tosection 9.6 of 10 V.S.A. App. § 37: within this zone the archery season opens September 15, and from September 15 to September 30 only antlerless deer may be taken
filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section9.6(b)
valueBeginning on the shore of Lake Champlain at the end of Beach Road (Shelburne T.H. #22) in Shelburne proceed south along Beach Road to Bostwick Road (Shelburn T.H. #3); then northeast along Bostwick Road to Marsett Road (Shelburne T.H. #11); then east along Marsett Road to Falls Road (Shelburne T.H. #2); then east along Falls Road to Irish Hill Road (Shelburne T.H. #2); then east along Irish Hill Road to Spear Street (Shelburne T.H. #6); then north along Spear Street to Barstow Road (Shelburne T.H. #8); then east along Barstow Road to Cheesefactory Road (Shelburne T.H. #8); then east along Cheesefactory Road to State Route 116; then south along Route 116 to South Brownell Road (Williston T.H. #5); then north along South Brownell Road to Walker Hill Road (Williston T.H. #18); then east along Walker Hill Road to State Route 2A (Saint George Road); then north along Route 2A to Interstate Highway 89; then east along Interstate Highway 89 to Oak Hill Road (Williston T.H. #1); then north along Oak Hill Road to North Williston Road (Williston T.H. #1); then north along North Williston Road to State Route 117 (River Road); then west along Route 117 to State Route 289; then north and west along Route 289 to Susie Wilson Bypass (Essex T.H. #3); then southwest along Susie Wilson Bypass to Kellogg Road (Essex T.H. #5); then west along Kellogg Road which becomes Severance Road (Colchester T.H. #7); then west along Severance Road to Blakely Road (Colchester T.H. #9); then west along Blakely Road to East Lakeshore Drive; then in a straight line north to the shore of Lake Champlain; then west and south along the shore of Lake Champlain to the point of beginning.
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Burlington Area
Beginning on the shore of Lake Champlain at the end of Beach Road (Shelburne T.H. #22) in
Shelburne proceed south along Beach Road to Bostwick Road (Shelburn T.H. #3); then northeast
along Bostwick Road to Marsett Road (Shelburne T.H. #11); then east along Marsett Road to Falls
Road (Shelburne T.H. #2); then east along Falls Road to Irish Hill Road (Shelburne T.H. #2); then east
along Irish Hill Road to Spear Street (Shelburne T.H. #6); then north along Spear Street to Barstow
Road (Shelburne T.H. #8); then east along Barstow Road to Cheesefactory Road (Shelburne T.H.
#8); then east along Cheesefactory Road to State Route 116; then south along Route 116 to South
Brownell Road (Williston T.H. #5); then north along South Brownell Road to Walker Hill Road
(Williston T.H. #18); then east along Walker Hill Road to State Route 2A (Saint George Road); then
north along Route 2A to Interstate Highway 89; then east along Interstate Highway 89 to Oak Hill
Road (Williston T.H. #1); then north along Oak Hill Road to North Williston Road (Williston T.H. #1);
then north along North Williston Road to State Route 117 (River Road); then west along Route 117 to
State Route 289; then north and west along Route 289 to Susie Wilson Bypass (Essex T.H. #3); then
southwest along Susie Wilson Bypass to Kellogg Road (Essex T.H. #5); then west along Kellogg Road
which becomes Severance Road (Colchester T.H. #7); then west along Severance Road to Blakely
Road (Colchester T.H. #9); then west along Blakely Road to East Lakeshore Drive; then in a straight
line north to the shore of Lake Champlain; then west and south along the shore of Lake Champlain
to the point of beginning.
9.6 Expanded Archery Zones
(b) Zone Boundaries
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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Expanded Archery Zone -- Montpelier

applies_tosection 9.6 of 10 V.S.A. App. § 37: within this zone the archery season opens September 15, and from September 15 to September 30 only antlerless deer may be taken
filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section9.6(b)
valueAll lands within the city of Montpelier.
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Montpelier
All lands within the city of Montpelier.
9.6 Expanded Archery Zones
(b) Zone Boundaries
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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Expanded Archery Zone -- Saint Johnsbury Area

applies_tosection 9.6 of 10 V.S.A. App. § 37: within this zone the archery season opens September 15, and from September 15 to September 30 only antlerless deer may be taken
filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section9.6(b)
valueBeginning at the junction of Hospital Drive (St. Johnsbury State Highway) and Interstate Highway 91 proceed east along Hospital Drive to Depot Hill Road (St. Johnsbury T.H. #85); then east along Depot Hill Road to U.S. Route 5 (Memorial Drive); then north along US Route 5 to Breezy Hill Road (St. Johnsbury T.H. #6); then east along Breezy Hill Road to Lackey Hill Road (St. Johnsbury T.H. #20); then east along Lackey Hill Road approximately 300 feet to the power line; then south along the power line to the electric substation off Higgins Hill Road (St. Johnsbury T.H. #80); then south along the power line to Interstate Highway 93; then west along Interstate Highway 93 to Interstate Highway 91; then north along Interstate Highway 91 to the point of beginning.
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Saint Johnsbury Area
Beginning at the junction of Hospital Drive (St. Johnsbury State Highway) and Interstate Highway 91
proceed east along Hospital Drive to Depot Hill Road (St. Johnsbury T.H. #85); then east along
Depot Hill Road to U.S. Route 5 (Memorial Drive); then north along US Route 5 to Breezy Hill Road
(St. Johnsbury T.H. #6); then east along Breezy Hill Road to Lackey Hill Road (St. Johnsbury T.H.
#20); then east along Lackey Hill Road approximately 300 feet to the power line; then south along
the power line to the electric substation off Higgins Hill Road (St. Johnsbury T.H. #80); then south
along the power line to Interstate Highway 93; then west along Interstate Highway 93 to Interstate
Highway 91; then north along Interstate Highway 91 to the point of beginning.
9.6 Expanded Archery Zones
(b) Zone Boundaries
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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Expanded Archery Zone -- Rutland Area

applies_tosection 9.6 of 10 V.S.A. App. § 37: within this zone the archery season opens September 15, and from September 15 to September 30 only antlerless deer may be taken
filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section9.6(b)
valueBeginning at the junction of State Route 4A and U.S. Route 4 in West Rutland proceed east along U.S. Route 4 to U.S. Route 7; then south along U.S. Route 7 to North Shrewsbury Road (Clarendon T.H. #4); then east along North Shrewsbury Road to East Clarendon Road (Clarendon T.H. #8); then north along East Clarendon Road to Cold River Road (Clarendon T.H. #8); then north along Cold River Road to the Rutland Town/Clarendon town line; then east along the Rutland Town/Clarendon town line to the Mendon town line; then north along the Rutland Town/Mendon town line to U.S. Route 4; then west along U.S. Route 4 to Post Road (Rutland Town T.H. #30); then north and west along Post Road to U.S. Route 7; then south along U.S. Route 7 approximately 0.1 miles to the triple power line; then west and southwest along the triple power line to the junction west of Grove Street (Rutland City T.H. #6); then south along the double power line to the junction near the end of Evergreen Avenue (Rutland City T.H. #174); then west along the power line to the junction west of West Proctor Road (Rutland Town T.H. #6); then north along the power line to the junction north of Durgy Hill Road (West Rutland Town T.H. #12); then west along the power line to Marble Street (West Rutland Town T.H. #3); then south along Marble Street to Water Street (West Rutland Town T.H. #19); then west along Water Street to Whipple Hollow Road (West Rutland Town T.H. #4); then south along Whipple Hollow Road to Route 4A; the west along Route 4A to the point of beginning.
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Rutland Area
Beginning at the junction of State Route 4A and U.S. Route 4 in West Rutland proceed east along
U.S. Route 4 to U.S. Route 7; then south along U.S. Route 7 to North Shrewsbury Road (Clarendon
T.H. #4); then east along North Shrewsbury Road to East Clarendon Road (Clarendon T.H. #8); then
north along East Clarendon Road to Cold River Road (Clarendon T.H. #8); then north along Cold
River Road to the Rutland Town/Clarendon town line; then east along the Rutland Town/Clarendon
town line to the Mendon town line; then north along the Rutland Town/Mendon town line to U.S.
Route 4; then west along U.S. Route 4 to Post Road (Rutland Town T.H. #30); then north and west
along Post Road to U.S. Route 7; then south along U.S. Route 7 approximately 0.1 miles to the triple
power line; then west and southwest along the triple power line to the junction west of Grove Street
(Rutland City T.H. #6); then south along the double power line to the junction near the end of
Evergreen Avenue (Rutland City T.H. #174); then west along the power line to the junction west of
West Proctor Road (Rutland Town T.H. #6); then north along the power line to the junction north of
Durgy Hill Road (West Rutland Town T.H. #12); then west along the power line to Marble Street
(West Rutland Town T.H. #3); then south along Marble Street to Water Street (West Rutland Town
T.H. #19); then west along Water Street to Whipple Hollow Road (West Rutland Town T.H. #4); then
south along Whipple Hollow Road to Route 4A; the west along Route 4A to the point of beginning.
9.6 Expanded Archery Zones
(b) Zone Boundaries
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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Expanded Archery Zone -- Bennington Area

applies_tosection 9.6 of 10 V.S.A. App. § 37: within this zone the archery season opens September 15, and from September 15 to September 30 only antlerless deer may be taken
filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section9.6(b)
valueBeginning at the junction of U.S. Route 7 and State Route 313 in Arlington proceed west along Route 313 to State Route 7A; then south along Route 7A to West Mountain Road (Shaftsbury T.H. #54); then west along West Mountain Road to Laclair Road (Shaftsbury T.H. #64); then west along Laclair Road to Murphy Hill Road (Shaftsbury T.H. #9); then west along Murphy Hill Road to Sally Gannon Road (Shaftsbury T.H. #13), then west along Sally Gannon Road to the New York state border; then south along the New York state border to State Route 346; then east along Route 346 to North Pownal Road (Pownal T.H. #2); then east along North Pownal Road to U.S. Route 7; then south along U.S. Route 7 to Barber Pond Road (Pownal T.H. #3); then east along Barber Pond Road to South Stream Road (Pownal T.H. #3); then east and north along South Stream Road to Gore Road (Bennington T.H. #54); then east along Gore Road to Burgess Road (Bennington T.H. #53); then north along Burgess Road to Barney Road (Bennington T.H. #52); then north along Barney Road to State Route 9, then west along Route 9 to State Route 279; then north along Route 279 to Chapel Road (Bennington T.H. #16); then north along Chapel Road to East Road (Shaftsbury T.H. #5); then north along East Road to U.S. Route 7; then north along U.S. Route 7 to the point of beginning.
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Bennington Area
Beginning at the junction of U.S. Route 7 and State Route 313 in Arlington proceed west along Route
313 to State Route 7A; then south along Route 7A to West Mountain Road (Shaftsbury T.H. #54);
then west along West Mountain Road to Laclair Road (Shaftsbury T.H. #64); then west along Laclair
Road to Murphy Hill Road (Shaftsbury T.H. #9); then west along Murphy Hill Road to Sally Gannon
Road (Shaftsbury T.H. #13), then west along Sally Gannon Road to the New York state border; then
south along the New York state border to State Route 346; then east along Route 346 to North
Pownal Road (Pownal T.H. #2); then east along North Pownal Road to U.S. Route 7; then south along
U.S. Route 7 to Barber Pond Road (Pownal T.H. #3); then east along Barber Pond Road to South
Stream Road (Pownal T.H. #3); then east and north along South Stream Road to Gore Road
(Bennington T.H. #54); then east along Gore Road to Burgess Road (Bennington T.H. #53); then
north along Burgess Road to Barney Road (Bennington T.H. #52); then north along Barney Road to
State Route 9, then west along Route 9 to State Route 279; then north along Route 279 to Chapel
Road (Bennington T.H. #16); then north along Chapel Road to East Road (Shaftsbury T.H. #5); then
north along East Road to U.S. Route 7; then north along U.S. Route 7 to the point of beginning.
9.6 Expanded Archery Zones
(b) Zone Boundaries
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

Expanded Archery Zone -- Brattleboro Area

applies_tosection 9.6 of 10 V.S.A. App. § 37: within this zone the archery season opens September 15, and from September 15 to September 30 only antlerless deer may be taken
filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section9.6(b)
valueBeginning at the Interstate Highway 91 bridge over the West River in Brattleboro proceed southeast along the north shore of the West River to the New Hampshire state border; then south along the New Hampshire state border to Broad Brook; then west along Broad Brook to State Route 142; then north along Route 142 to Broad Brook Road (Vernon T.H. #6); then west along Broad Brook Road to U.S. Route 5; then north along U.S. Route 5 to Guilford Center Road (Guilford T.H. #1); then southwest along Guilford Center Road to Tater Lane (Guilford T.H. #23); then north along Tater Lane which becomes South Street (Brattleboro T.H. #72); then north along South Street to State Route 9; then northwest along Route 9 to Meadowbrook Road (Brattleboro T.H. #26); then north along Meadowbrook Road to upper Dummerston Road (Brattleboro T.H. #5); then southeast along Upper Dummerston Road to Interstate Highway 91; then north along Interstate Highway 91 to the point of beginning.
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Brattleboro Area
Beginning at the Interstate Highway 91 bridge over the West River in Brattleboro proceed southeast
along the north shore of the West River to the New Hampshire state border; then south along the
New Hampshire state border to Broad Brook; then west along Broad Brook to State Route 142; then
north along Route 142 to Broad Brook Road (Vernon T.H. #6); then west along Broad Brook Road to
U.S. Route 5; then north along U.S. Route 5 to Guilford Center Road (Guilford T.H. #1); then
southwest along Guilford Center Road to Tater Lane (Guilford T.H. #23); then north along Tater Lane
which becomes South Street (Brattleboro T.H. #72); then north along South Street to State Route 9;
then northwest along Route 9 to Meadowbrook Road (Brattleboro T.H. #26); then north along
Meadowbrook Road to upper Dummerston Road (Brattleboro T.H. #5); then southeast along Upper
Dummerston Road to Interstate Highway 91; then north along Interstate Highway 91 to the point of
beginning.
9.6 Expanded Archery Zones
(b) Zone Boundaries
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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rule (29)

This rule is adopted pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 4081(b). In adopting this rule, the Fish and Wildlife Board is following the policy established by the General Assembly that the protection, propagation, control, management, and conservation of fish, wildlife and furbearing animals in this State is in the interest of the public welfare and that the safeguarding of this valuable resource for the people of the State requires a constant and continual vigilance.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section1.1
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1.1 This rule is adopted pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 4081(b). In adopting this rule, the Fish and Wildlife
Board is following the policy established by the General Assembly that the protection, propagation,
control, management, and conservation of fish, wildlife and furbearing animals in this State is in
the interest of the public welfare and that the safeguarding of this valuable resource for the people
of the State requires a constant and continual vigilance.
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Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

In accordance with 10 V.S.A. § 4082, this rule is designed to maintain the best health, population and utilization levels of the deer herd.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section1.2
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1.2 In accordance with 10 V.S.A. § 4082, this rule is designed to maintain the best health,
population and utilization levels of the deer herd.
1.0 Authority
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

In accordance with 10 V.S.A. § 4084, this rule establishes open seasons; establishes daily, season and possession limits; prescribes the manner and means of taking white-tailed deer and establishes restrictions on taking based on sex and antler characteristics.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section1.3
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1.3 In accordance with 10 V.S.A. § 4084, this rule establishes open seasons; establishes daily,
season and possession limits; prescribes the manner and means of taking white-tailed deer and
establishes restrictions on taking based on sex and antler characteristics.
1.0 Authority
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

The purpose of this rule is to manage the white-tailed deer herd, implementing will of the General Assembly to design rules to maintain the best health, population and utilization levels of the deer herd.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section2.0
section_heading2.0 Purpose
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The purpose of this rule is to manage the white-tailed deer herd, implementing will of the General
Assembly to design rules to maintain the best health, population and utilization levels of the deer
herd.
2.0 Purpose.
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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An Antlerless Deer Permit is a permit issued pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 4081(g) and provisions of this section that allows a person to take one antlerless deer in the wildlife management unit listed on the permit during the regular season, October muzzleloader season, or December muzzleloader season.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section4.1
section_heading4.0 Antlerless Deer Permits
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4.1 An Antlerless Deer Permit is a permit issued pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 4081(g) and provisions of
this section that allows a person to take one antlerless deer in the wildlife management unit listed
on the permit during the regular season, October muzzleloader season, or December muzzleloader
season.
4.0 Antlerless Deer Permits
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

Annually, the Board shall determine how many antlerless permits to issue in each wildlife management unit. For a nonrefundable fee, a person may apply for an Antlerless Deer Permit. The Department shall allocate the permits in the following manner: (a) A Vermont landowner, as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 4253, who owns 25 or more contiguous acres and who applies shall receive an antlerless deer permit in the wildlife management unit on which the land is located before any are given to people eligible under subdivision (b) of this section. If the land is owned by more than one individual, corporation, or other entity, only one permit shall be issued. Landowners applying for antlerless deer permits under this subdivision shall not, at the time of application or thereafter during the deer hunting seasons, post their lands except under the provisions of 10 V.S.A. § 4710. As used in this section, “post” means any signage that would lead a reasonable person to believe that hunting is restricted on the land. If the number of landowners who apply exceeds the number of permits for that wildlife management unit, the Department shall award all permits in that wildlife management unit to landowners by lottery. (b) Permits remaining after allocation pursuant to subdivision (a) of this subsection shall be issued by lottery. Not more than ten percent of permits may be issued to nonresident applicants. (c) Any permits remaining after permits have been allocated pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b) of this subsection shall be issued by the Department on a first-come, first-served basis. Ten percent of the remaining permits may be issued to nonresident applicants.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section4.2
section_heading4.0 Antlerless Deer Permits
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4.2 Annually, the Board shall determine how many antlerless permits to issue in each wildlife
management unit. For a nonrefundable fee, a person may apply for an Antlerless Deer Permit. The
Department shall allocate the permits in the following manner:
(a) A Vermont landowner, as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 4253, who owns 25 or more contiguous
acres and who applies shall receive an antlerless deer permit in the wildlife management
unit on which the land is located before any are given to people eligible under subdivision
(b) of this section. If the land is owned by more than one individual, corporation, or other
entity, only one permit shall be issued. Landowners applying for antlerless deer permits
under this subdivision shall not, at the time of application or thereafter during the deer
hunting seasons, post their lands except under the provisions of 10 V.S.A. § 4710. As used in
this section, “post” means any signage that would lead a reasonable person to believe that
hunting is restricted on the land. If the number of landowners who apply exceeds the
number of permits for that wildlife management unit, the Department shall award all
permits in that wildlife management unit to landowners by lottery.
(b) Permits remaining after allocation pursuant to subdivision (a) of this subsection shall be
issued by lottery. Not more than ten percent of permits may be issued to nonresident
applicants.
(c) Any permits remaining after permits have been allocated pursuant to subdivisions (a)
and (b) of this subsection shall be issued by the Department on a first-come, first-served
basis. Ten percent of the remaining permits may be issued to nonresident applicants.
4.0 Antlerless Deer Permits
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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No person shall take deer in a WMU unless they are licensed, permitted or explicitly authorized to do so by the Board rules, or procedures adopted in accordance with 10 V.S.A § 4082 (c).

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section5.2
section_heading5.0 Annual Deer Limit
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5.2 No person shall take deer in a WMU unless they are licensed, permitted or explicitly authorized
to do so by the Board rules, or procedures adopted in accordance with 10 V.S.A § 4082 (c).
5.0 Annual Deer Limit
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

A person hunting under this section shall obtain a muzzleloader license as provided in 10 V.S.A. § 4252 and must possess an antlerless deer permit.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section7.3
section_heading7.0 October Muzzleloader Season
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7.3 A person hunting under this section shall obtain a muzzleloader license as provided in 10 V.S.A.
§ 4252 and must possess an antlerless deer permit.
7.0 October Muzzleloader Season.
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

A person shall not carry any firearms other than one single-barreled muzzleloading firearm as defined in 10 V.S.A.§ 4001(33) while hunting deer during this season.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section7.4
section_heading7.0 October Muzzleloader Season
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7.4 A person shall not carry any firearms other than one single-barreled muzzleloading firearm as
defined in 10 V.S.A.§ 4001(33) while hunting deer during this season.
7.0 October Muzzleloader Season.
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

No person taking deer by means of muzzleloader may possess archery equipment or crossbow while hunting.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section7.5
section_heading7.0 October Muzzleloader Season
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7.5 No person taking deer by means of muzzleloader may possess archery equipment or crossbow
while hunting.
7.0 October Muzzleloader Season.
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

A person hunting under this section shall obtain a muzzleloader license as provided in 10 V.S.A. § 4252.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section8.3
section_heading8.0 December Muzzleloader Season
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8.3 A person hunting under this section shall obtain a muzzleloader license as provided in 10 V.S.A.
§ 4252.
8.0 December Muzzleloader Season.
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

A person shall not carry any firearms other than one single-barreled muzzleloading firearm as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 4001(33) while hunting deer during this season.

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section8.4
section_heading8.0 December Muzzleloader Season
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8.4 A person shall not carry any firearms other than one single-barreled muzzleloading firearm as
defined in 10 V.S.A. § 4001(33) while hunting deer during this season.
8.0 December Muzzleloader Season.
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

No person taking deer by means of muzzleloader may possess archery equipment or crossbow while hunting.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section8.5
section_heading8.0 December Muzzleloader Season
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8.5 No person taking deer by means of muzzleloader may possess archery equipment or crossbow
while hunting.
8.0 December Muzzleloader Season.
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

A person hunting under this section shall obtain an archery license as provided in 10 V.S.A. § 4252. An archery license will be valid for one deer; additional archery licenses are required for the taking of additional deer.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section9.3
section_heading9.0 Archery Season
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9.3 A person hunting under this section shall obtain an archery license as provided in 10 V.S.A. §
4252. An archery license will be valid for one deer; additional archery licenses are required for the
taking of additional deer.
9.0 Archery Season
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

A person shall use only a bow and arrow or a crossbow to take deer during this season.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section9.4
section_heading9.0 Archery Season
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9.4 A person shall use only a bow and arrow or a crossbow to take deer during this season.
9.0 Archery Season
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

The holder of an archery license or a super sport license, hunting with a bow and arrow or a crossbow, may possess a handgun while archery hunting, in accordance with 10 V.S.A. § 4252(b), provided that the license holder shall not take game by firearm while hunting.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section9.5
section_heading9.0 Archery Season
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9.5 The holder of an archery license or a super sport license, hunting with a bow and arrow or a
crossbow, may possess a handgun while archery hunting, in accordance with 10 V.S.A. § 4252(b),
provided that the license holder shall not take game by firearm while hunting.
9.0 Archery Season
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

To participate in the youth deer hunt, a qualified youth must be 15 years of age or younger and have a valid Vermont hunting license and a youth deer hunting weekend license.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section10.3
section_heading10.0 Youth Deer Hunting Weekend
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10.3 To participate in the youth deer hunt, a qualified youth must be 15 years of age or younger and
have a valid Vermont hunting license and a youth deer hunting weekend license.
10.0 Youth Deer Hunting Weekend
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

The youth must be accompanied by an unarmed adult who holds a valid Vermont hunting license and who is 18 years of age or older. An adult accompanying a youth under this section shall accompany no more than two young people at one time. As used in this section, “accompany,” “accompanied,” or “accompanying” means direct control and supervision, including the ability to see and communicate with the youth hunter without the aid of artificial devices such as radios or binoculars, except for medically necessary devices such as hearing aids or eyeglasses.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section10.4
section_heading10.0 Youth Deer Hunting Weekend
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10.4 The youth must be accompanied by an unarmed adult who holds a valid Vermont hunting
license and who is 18 years of age or older. An adult accompanying a youth under this section shall
accompany no more than two young people at one time. As used in this section, “accompany,”
“accompanied,” or “accompanying” means direct control and supervision, including the ability to
see and communicate with the youth hunter without the aid of artificial devices such as radios or
binoculars, except for medically necessary devices such as hearing aids or eyeglasses.
10.0 Youth Deer Hunting Weekend
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

No youth shall hunt under this section on privately owned land without first obtaining the permission of the owner or occupant.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section10.5
section_heading10.0 Youth Deer Hunting Weekend
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10.5 No youth shall hunt under this section on privately owned land without first obtaining the
permission of the owner or occupant.
10.0 Youth Deer Hunting Weekend
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

To participate in the novice season, a qualified person must have a valid Vermont hunting license, and follow the requirements of youth hunting week-end.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section11.3
section_heading11.0 Novice Season
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11.3 To participate in the novice season, a qualified person must have a valid Vermont hunting
license, and follow the requirements of youth hunting week-end.
11.0 Novice Season
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

The novice hunter must be accompanied by an unarmed adult who holds a valid Vermont hunting license and who is 18 years of age or older. An adult accompanying a novice under this section shall accompany no more than two novice hunters at one time. As used in this section, “accompany,” “accompanied,” or “accompanying” means direct control and supervision, including the ability to see and communicate with the novice hunter without the aid of artificial devices such as radios or binoculars, except for medically necessary devices such as hearing aids or eyeglasses.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section11.4
section_heading11.0 Novice Season
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11.4 The novice hunter must be accompanied by an unarmed adult who holds a valid Vermont
hunting license and who is 18 years of age or older. An adult accompanying a novice under this
section shall accompany no more than two novice hunters at one time. As used in this section,
“accompany,” “accompanied,” or “accompanying” means direct control and supervision, including
the ability to see and communicate with the novice hunter without the aid of artificial devices such
as radios or binoculars, except for medically necessary devices such as hearing aids or eyeglasses.
11.0 Novice Season
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

No Novice hunter shall hunt under this section on privately owned land without first obtaining the permission of the owner or occupant.

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section11.5
section_heading11.0 Novice Season
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11.5 No Novice hunter shall hunt under this section on privately owned land without first obtaining
the permission of the owner or occupant.
11.0 Novice Season
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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A deer carcass shall be field dressed prior to reporting in accordance with 10 V.S.A. App. § 2.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section12.1
section_heading12.0 Reporting
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12.1 A deer carcass shall be field dressed prior to reporting in accordance with 10 V.S.A. App. § 2.
12.0 Reporting.
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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Upon request, the person harvesting a deer shall show and return to the kill site with a Game Warden.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section12.2
section_heading12.0 Reporting
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12.2 Upon request, the person harvesting a deer shall show and return to the kill site with a Game
Warden.
12.0 Reporting.
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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No person shall feed white-tailed deer at any time in Vermont except: (a) Under a license or permit issued pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 4152 by the Department for bona fide scientific research, mitigation of wildlife damage or nuisance problems, or wildlife population reduction programs only; or (b) By planting, cultivating or harvesting of crops directly associated with bona fide agricultural practices, including planted wildlife food plots; or (c) By distribution of food material for livestock directly associated with bona fide agricultural practices; or (d) By cutting of trees or brush; or (e) By incidental feeding by an elevated bird/squirrel feeders (feeders must be at least five feet above the ground) providing seed, grain, fruit, worms, or suet for birds or squirrels, located within 100 feet of an occupied dwelling.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section13.1
section_heading13.0 Feeding of Deer
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13.1 No person shall feed white-tailed deer at any time in Vermont except:
(a) Under a license or permit issued pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 4152 by the Department for
bona fide scientific research, mitigation of wildlife damage or nuisance problems, or wildlife
population reduction programs only; or
(b) By planting, cultivating or harvesting of crops directly associated with bona fide
agricultural practices, including planted wildlife food plots; or
(c) By distribution of food material for livestock directly associated with bona fide
agricultural practices; or
(d) By cutting of trees or brush; or
(e) By incidental feeding by an elevated bird/squirrel feeders (feeders must be at least five
feet above the ground) providing seed, grain, fruit, worms, or suet for birds or squirrels,
located within 100 feet of an occupied dwelling.
13.0 Feeding of Deer.
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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No person shall take deer by using bait. Exempted from this prohibition are: (a) Incidental feeding of wildlife within active livestock operations; (b) Standing crops planted and left standing as food plots for wildlife; (c) Grain or other feed scattered or distributed solely as a result of normal agricultural, gardening, or soil stabilization, and logging practices; (d) Vegetation or food/seed naturally deposited.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section14.1
section_heading14.0 Baiting
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14.1 No person shall take deer by using bait. Exempted from this prohibition are:
(a) Incidental feeding of wildlife within active livestock operations;
(b) Standing crops planted and left standing as food plots for wildlife;
(c) Grain or other feed scattered or distributed solely as a result of normal agricultural,
gardening, or soil stabilization, and logging practices;
(d) Vegetation or food/seed naturally deposited.
14.0 Baiting
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

No person shall take any game or wild animal by using bait during deer seasons established under Part 4 of Title 10 or by rules of the Board, except that persons taking furbearers as authorized under 10 V.S.A. § 4252(3) may use bait in conjunction with traps being set to take furbearers.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section14.2
section_heading14.0 Baiting
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14.2 No person shall take any game or wild animal by using bait during deer seasons established
under Part 4 of Title 10 or by rules of the Board, except that persons taking furbearers as authorized
under 10 V.S.A. § 4252(3) may use bait in conjunction with traps being set to take furbearers.
14.0 Baiting
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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Authority. The Fish & Wildlife Board finds that, in order to protect the health of white-tailed deer in Vermont, it is necessary to prohibit the use of cervid urine, blood, glands, gland oil, feces, or other bodily fluids for the purpose of taking or attempting to take deer.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section15.1
section_heading15.0 The Ban of urine and other natural lures
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15.1 Authority. The Fish & Wildlife Board finds that, in order to protect the health of white-tailed
deer in Vermont, it is necessary to prohibit the use of cervid urine, blood, glands, gland oil, feces, or
other bodily fluids for the purpose of taking or attempting to take deer.
15.0 The Ban of urine and other natural lures.
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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Restricted and Permitted Uses of cervid urine, blood, glands, gland oil, feces, or other bodily fluids. (a) No person shall possess while hunting or use, for the purposes of taking or attempting to take, attracting, surveillance or scouting deer; any product that contains or purports to contain any cervid urine, blood, gland oil, feces, or other bodily fluids. (b) A person may utilize the body parts of a wild Vermont white-tailed deer legally taken or acquired by that person for coyote hunting.

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section15.2
section_heading15.0 The Ban of urine and other natural lures
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15.2 Restricted and Permitted Uses of cervid urine, blood, glands, gland oil, feces, or other bodily
fluids.
(a) No person shall possess while hunting or use, for the purposes of taking or attempting to
take, attracting, surveillance or scouting deer; any product that contains or purports to
contain any cervid urine, blood, gland oil, feces, or other bodily fluids.
(b) A person may utilize the body parts of a wild Vermont white-tailed deer legally taken or
acquired by that person for coyote hunting.
15.0 The Ban of urine and other natural lures.
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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12.0 Reporting -- section 12.3

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section12.3
source_punctuationAS PRINTED, AND THE SOURCE DOES NOT CLOSE IT. This provision ends without terminal punctuation in the filed text; pypdf and pdfplumber agree. Nothing is added here.
valueA deer carcass may be quartered or deboned in the field prior to reporting provided all requirements of 10 V.S.A. App. § 2 and 10 V.S.A. §§ 4921 through 4925 are met. The viscera, hide, upper and lower leg bones, backbone, pelvis, and ribs may be left in the field. Evidence of sex (genitalia, antlers of deer,) must be retained for reporting. All other required biological samples must also be retained for reporting, including both central incisors of deer, during the November firearm season and novice weekend
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12.3 A deer carcass may be quartered or deboned in the field prior to reporting provided all
requirements of 10 V.S.A. App. § 2 and 10 V.S.A. §§ 4921 through 4925 are met. The viscera, hide,
upper and lower leg bones, backbone, pelvis, and ribs may be left in the field. Evidence of sex
(genitalia, antlers of deer,) must be retained for reporting. All other required biological samples
must also be retained for reporting, including both central incisors of deer, during the November
firearm season and novice weekend
12.0 Reporting.
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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limit (8)

4.0 Antlerless Deer Permits -- section 4.3

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section4.3
valueNo person may purchase or possess more than two antlerless deer permits at one time, only one of which may be acquired pursuant to subsection 4.2(a) or (b) of this section. No person may purchase or possess more than one antlerless deer permit for an individual wildlife management unit at one time. A person may purchase additional antlerless deer permits after the person has harvested an antlerless deer.
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4.3 No person may purchase or possess more than two antlerless deer permits at one time, only
one of which may be acquired pursuant to subsection 4.2(a) or (b) of this section. No person may
purchase or possess more than one antlerless deer permit for an individual wildlife management
unit at one time. A person may purchase additional antlerless deer permits after the person has
harvested an antlerless deer.
4.0 Antlerless Deer Permits
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

5.0 Annual Deer Limit -- section 5.1

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section5.1
valueA person shall not take more than four white-tailed deer in a calendar year, only one of which may be a legal buck, with the following exceptions. (a) Youth and novice hunters shall be allowed to take two legal bucks, provided that one is taken during the youth or novice season, not to exceed the annual limit of four white-tailed deer. (b) A person shall be allowed to take one additional buck, not to exceed the annual limit of four white-tailed deer, provided they have: (1) Purchased a second buck tag, (2) Previously taken and reported an antlerless deer in the current year, and (3) Previously taken and reported an antlered buck in the current year that had at least one antler with 3 or more antler points.
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5.1 A person shall not take more than four white-tailed deer in a calendar year, only one of which
may be a legal buck, with the following exceptions.
(a) Youth and novice hunters shall be allowed to take two legal bucks, provided that one is
taken during the youth or novice season, not to exceed the annual limit of four white-tailed
deer.
(b) A person shall be allowed to take one additional buck, not to exceed the annual limit of
four white-tailed deer, provided they have:
(1) Purchased a second buck tag,
(2) Previously taken and reported an antlerless deer in the current year, and
(3) Previously taken and reported an antlered buck in the current year that had at
least one antler with 3 or more antler points.
5.0 Annual Deer Limit
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

6.0 Regular Season -- section 6.2

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section6.2
valueLimit: (a) One legal buck, not to exceed the annual limit as prescribed in Section 5.1 of this rule, and (b) One antlerless deer per antlerless deer permit, not to exceed the annual limit as prescribed in section 5.1 of this rule.
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6.2 Limit:
(a) One legal buck, not to exceed the annual limit as prescribed in Section 5.1 of this rule,
and
(b) One antlerless deer per antlerless deer permit, not to exceed the annual limit as
prescribed in section 5.1 of this rule.
6.0 Regular Season
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

7.0 October Muzzleloader Season -- section 7.2

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section7.2
valueLimit: A person may take one antlerless deer per antlerless deer permit, not to exceed the annual limit as prescribed in section 5.1 of this rule.
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7.2 Limit: A person may take one antlerless deer per antlerless deer permit, not to exceed the
annual limit as prescribed in section 5.1 of this rule.
7.0 October Muzzleloader Season.
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

8.0 December Muzzleloader Season -- section 8.2

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section8.2
valueLimit: (a) One legal buck, not to exceed the annual limit as prescribed in Section 5.1 of this rule, and (b) One antlerless deer per antlerless deer permit, not to exceed the annual limit as prescribed in section 5.1 of this rule.
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8.2 Limit:
(a) One legal buck, not to exceed the annual limit as prescribed in Section 5.1 of this rule,
and
(b) One antlerless deer per antlerless deer permit, not to exceed the annual limit as
prescribed in section 5.1 of this rule.
8.0 December Muzzleloader Season.
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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9.0 Archery Season -- section 9.2

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section9.2
valueLimit: (a) One legal buck, not to exceed the annual limit as prescribed in Section 5.1 of this rule, and (b) In Wildlife Management Units declared open by the Board to the taking of antlerless deer, a person may take one antlerless deer per archery antlerless deer tag, not to exceed the annual limit as prescribed in Section 5.1 of this rule.
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9.2 Limit:
(a) One legal buck, not to exceed the annual limit as prescribed in Section 5.1 of this rule,
and
(b) In Wildlife Management Units declared open by the Board to the taking of antlerless
deer, a person may take one antlerless deer per archery antlerless deer tag, not to exceed
the annual limit as prescribed in Section 5.1 of this rule.
9.0 Archery Season
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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10.0 Youth Deer Hunting Weekend -- section 10.2

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section10.2
valueLimit: One white-tailed deer. One legal buck may be taken during the youth deer hunting weekend, or any deer if the Board has authorized the taking of antlerless deer during youth hunting weekend.
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10.2 Limit: One white-tailed deer. One legal buck may be taken during the youth deer hunting
weekend, or any deer if the Board has authorized the taking of antlerless deer during youth hunting
weekend.
10.0 Youth Deer Hunting Weekend
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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11.0 Novice Season -- section 11.2

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section11.2
valueLimit: One white-tailed deer. One legal buck may be taken during this season, or any deer if the Board has authorized the taking of antlerless deer during youth hunting weekend.
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11.2 Limit: One white-tailed deer. One legal buck may be taken during this season, or any deer if the
Board has authorized the taking of antlerless deer during youth hunting weekend.
11.0 Novice Season
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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definition (10)

Antlerless Deer

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section3.1
section_heading3.0 Definitions
value“Antlerless Deer” are defined as those deer without antlers or with antlers less than three (3″) inches in length.
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3.1 “Antlerless Deer” are defined as those deer without antlers or with antlers less than three (3″)
inches in length.
3.0 Definitions
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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Antler Point

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section3.2
section_heading3.0 Definitions
value“Antler Point”: A “point” is an antler projection of at least 1″ measured from the base of the point at the main beam to the tip of the point. A broken main beam shall count as a point regardless of length.
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3.2 “Antler Point”: A “point” is an antler projection of at least 1″ measured from the base of the point
at the main beam to the tip of the point. A broken main beam shall count as a point regardless of
length.
3.0 Definitions
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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Bait

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section3.3
section_heading3.0 Definitions
value“Bait”: For the purposes of this regulation, ‘bait’ is defined as any animal, vegetable, fruit or mineral matter placed with the intention of attracting wildlife. Natural and artificial scents and lures that are not prohibited under Section 14 of this regulation and are not designed to be consumed by eating or licking shall not be bait for the purposes of this rule.
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3.3 “Bait”: For the purposes of this regulation, ‘bait’ is defined as any animal, vegetable, fruit or
mineral matter placed with the intention of attracting wildlife. Natural and artificial scents and lures
that are not prohibited under Section 14 of this regulation and are not designed to be consumed by
eating or licking shall not be bait for the purposes of this rule.
3.0 Definitions
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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Baiting

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section3.4
section_heading3.0 Definitions
value“Baiting” is the use of any animal, vegetable or mineral matter, including scents and lures prohibited under section 14 of this regulation that has the effect of enticing wildlife to a certain location.
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3.4 “Baiting” is the use of any animal, vegetable or mineral matter, including scents and lures
prohibited under section 14 of this regulation that has the effect of enticing wildlife to a certain
location.
3.0 Definitions
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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Board

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section3.5
section_heading3.0 Definitions
value“Board”: The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board.
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3.5 “Board”: The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board.
3.0 Definitions
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

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Bona fide agricultural practices

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section3.6
section_heading3.0 Definitions
value“Bona fide agricultural practices”: Practices that have been employed to plant, grow and harvest an agricultural product conducted in the usual manner.
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3.6 “Bona fide agricultural practices”: Practices that have been employed to plant, grow and
harvest an agricultural product conducted in the usual manner.
3.0 Definitions
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

Crossbows

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section3.7
section_heading3.0 Definitions
value“Crossbows”: A crossbow means a device consisting of a bow mounted to a rigid stock for discharging bolts or arrows and having a mechanical means to hold and release the drawn string, which must be fired from the shoulder. A bolt means a short projectile, designed for a crossbow, that resembles an arrow. No person shall hunt wild animals or game with a crossbow if the bolt has an arrowhead less than seven-eighths of an inch at its widest point and has less than two sharp cutting edges. A crossbow shall have a minimum pull of 125 pounds, a working mechanical safety and a stock no less than 23 inches in length.
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3.7 “Crossbows”: A crossbow means a device consisting of a bow mounted to a rigid stock for
discharging bolts or arrows and having a mechanical means to hold and release the drawn string,
which must be fired from the shoulder. A bolt means a short projectile, designed for a crossbow,
that resembles an arrow. No person shall hunt wild animals or game with a crossbow if the bolt has
an arrowhead less than seven-eighths of an inch at its widest point and has less than two sharp
cutting edges. A crossbow shall have a minimum pull of 125 pounds, a working mechanical safety
and a stock no less than 23 inches in length.
3.0 Definitions
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

Legal Buck

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section3.8
section_heading3.0 Definitions
value“Legal Buck”: In Wildlife Management Units C, D2, E1, E2, G, I, L, M, P, and Q a legal buck shall be any white-tail deer with at least one antler three (3″) inches or more in length; and in Wildlife Management Units A, B, D1, F1, F2, H, J1, J2, K, N, and O a legal buck shall be any white-tailed deer with at least one antler with two or more antler points one inch in length or longer.
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3.8 “Legal Buck”: In Wildlife Management Units C, D2, E1, E2, G, I, L, M, P, and Q a legal buck shall
be any white-tail deer with at least one antler three (3″) inches or more in length; and in Wildlife
Management Units A, B, D1, F1, F2, H, J1, J2, K, N, and O a legal buck shall be any white-tailed deer
with at least one antler with two or more antler points one inch in length or longer.
3.0 Definitions
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

Novice

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section3.9
section_heading3.0 Definitions
value“Novice”: A person who purchased their first hunting license within the past 12 months and is 16 years of age or older.
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3.9 “Novice”: A person who purchased their first hunting license within the past 12 months and is
16 years of age or older.
3.0 Definitions
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18

Youth

filing_statusFINAL PROPOSED FILING, AND EVERY PAGE OF THE RULE TEXT IS WATERMARKED "DRAFT". p.1 is headed "Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet", leaves "FINAL PROPOSED RULE #" BLANK, and is signed "/s/Andrea Shortsleeve , on 6/20/2025" over "Andrea Shortsleeve, Interim Commissioner", "Department of Fish and Wildlife", "Secretary, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board". p.2 gives "PROPOSED NUMBER ASSIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 25P014". p.7 states "This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE" and names what it amends: "SOS Log #19-048, Deer Management Rule, effective January 1, 2020." THIS COMPILATION ASSERTS NO EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE AMENDED RULE, because the document prints none: counted over all 349 pages, "Cite as" occurs 0 times, "January 1, 2026" occurs 0 times and "effective date" occurs 0 times, and the only effective date printed anywhere is 2020's, for the rule being replaced. The nine pages these rows are read from each carry a diagonal grey "DRAFT" watermark covering 14.7% of the page, drawn in vector curves that exist in NO text layer -- "DRAFT" occurs 0 times as text in the whole document. Treat these rows as the text of a filed amendment, not as a verified codification. WHAT THIS DOCUMENT CANNOT TELL YOU, STATED SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INFER IT: this filing does not record whether it was subsequently ADOPTED, and every count above is a fact about THIS FILE ONLY, not about the state of Vermont law. Adoption status cannot be determined from this document at all. The Secretary of State's rule registry entry for proposed number 25P014 is where that question is answered. A reader relying on these rows as current law must check that registry; a reader who wants the text as filed on 6/20/2025 has it here, verbatim. ADOPTION STATUS, MEASURED RATHER THAN DEFERRED: THIS FILING WAS ADOPTED AND IS IN FORCE. The codified rule at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10APPENDIX/001/00037 -- a robots-clear host this compilation can and does retrieve -- prints "Cite as: 10 App. V.S.A. § 37" and "§ 37. Deer Management Rule [Effective January 1, 2026]", and closes with the history note "(Added 2005 ... 2019, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2020; 2025, Fish and Wildlife Board Reg., eff. Jan. 1, 2026.)" -- whose 2020 entry is the rule p.7 of THIS filing says it amends, and whose 2026 entry is this filing. Compared provision by provision, 50 of 54 numbered provisions are identical, and ALL SEVEN season provisions and ALL EIGHT limit provisions are CHARACTER-IDENTICAL. The four that differ are the CODIFICATION departing from the signed instrument, not this record: 5.2 closes a space, 11.3 prints "weekend" where the filing prints "week-end", 12.3 adds a terminal period the filing does not print, and 3.8 substitutes a right double quote for the filing's double-prime inch mark. **This record follows the signed instrument in all four.** No digest is cited for the codified page because it is not byte-stable. THE SoS REGISTRY REMAINS UNRETRIEVABLE HERE: sos.vermont.gov answers HTTP 403 at /robots.txt, so that host cannot be cleared -- but it is no longer the only place the question is answered, and this compilation no longer leaves the question open. Separately, p.2 of this filing prints "Web URL (WHERE THE RULE WILL BE POSTED)" over the Fish and Wildlife Board's own rules page -- that is the BOARD's posting address and it is NOT the Secretary of State's registry; do not read one for the other. AND THE ZERO-COUNTS ABOVE ARE COUNTS OVER THE TEXT LAYER, which is a smaller claim than it reads as, in a document whose central finding is that the text layer cannot see things. The literal string "effective date" occurs 0 times and "EFFECTIVE DATE" occurs once, on p.7, as the FORM LABEL asking when the rule last adopted took effect -- and that form's answer is the 2020 date already quoted above. **The page does not print that label in capitals.** It is set in small caps: pdfplumber char metrics give 14.04pt for the authored capitals and 11.04pt for the originally-lowercase letters, so a human reads "Effective date of the Last adoption", and both libraries return all-caps only because the font's ToUnicode maps small-cap glyphs to uppercase. The substance is unchanged; the sentence is now the size of the measurement behind it.
section3.10
section_heading3.0 Definitions
value“Youth”: A person who is 15 years of age or younger.
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3.10 “Youth”: A person who is 15 years of age or younger.
3.0 Definitions
Final Proposed Filing - Coversheet FINAL PROPOSED RULE # .
This filing is AN AMENDMENT OF AN EXISTING RULE .

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, 10 V.S.A. App. § 37 Deer Management Rule, Final Proposed Filing of 6/20/2025 (Secretary of State proposed number 25P014), pp.18-26 (clean text of the amended rule) and pp.1, 2 and 7 (the filing coversheet and adopting page)

https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/LCAR/2025%20Rules/25-P14%20-%2010%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule/W~none~10%20V.S.A.%20App.%20%C2%A7%2037%20Deer%20Management%20Rule~6-20-2025.pdf#page=18