Searches and seizures.

The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources and his designated agents or employees are authorized to search without warrant any automobile, wagon, truck or other vehicle or any hunting sack or hunting coat within any wildlife management area and to confiscate any protected bird, animal or fish found killed or held in violation of the game laws or the regulations of the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources; provided, that this section shall not be operative against persons traveling on state and federal highways within any wildlife management areas.

(Acts 1939, No. 668, p. 1061, §4; Code 1940, T. 8, §110(4).)