My father owns a 17 acre parcel and a 4 acre parcel. Can I hunt both parcels with my free land owner permits?

For over 20 years we have been sending both parcels in to the state with volumn #'s etc...(same application)The free land owners tags have come back with both parcels listed on it??...I have been checked several times by state wardens on the 4 acres and never had a problem. My father also called the state years ago to confirm?

This year I filled out the form on line and listed both parcels and volumn #'s and it accepted it?

This is from the DEP website. Doesn't say each parcel needs to be 10 acres, only that you need to own 10 acres.

Free Landowner Permits are available only to persons owning 10 or more acres of land.

Just to make sure I double checked up the chain of command and with Wildlife Division. My opinion which I posted earlier is the correct version.

This is from the Director of the Wildlife Division:
The properties on which a person may hunt under a landowner deer permit are limited to those that, either as a single parcel or as one or more contiguous parcels, are 10 acres or larger. Individual, unconnected properties less than 10 acres do not come into play in either fulfilling the 10 acre threshold, or in being a property subject to hunting under a landowner deer permit.

It goes back to the legislature, they are the one's who write the laws. Landowners have special privileges such as being able to hunt on their own land without a license,etc. I can only assume that the legislature followed the same thought process for deer hunting with no fee. They had to set some type of limitation on the amount of land, so they picked 10 acres. It falls in line with the 10 acre requirement for centerfire rifles.

Part of it may be to prevent someone who owns 10 one acre parcels, or 20 half half acre parcels or to the extreme, 40 quarter acre parcels from qualifying for free landowner permits.