(1) No person or group of persons may deliberately cast the rays of a spotlight or other artificial light into any field, pasture, woodlands, or forest, whether public or private, where wildlife or domestic livestock may reasonably be expected to be located, or into any inhabited building. This section shall not apply to the rays of headlights of vehicles engaged in a normal course of travel; to employees or agents of the department while on official business; to peace officers in the line of duty; to those engaged in legitimate agricultural activities; or to anyone involved in activities legitimate to his business, occupation, or circumstances including lawful hunting and fishing activities, or any landowner, his immediate family, or any paid employee while working on his land at that time.
(2) Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be fined one hundred fifty dollars ($150), which shall be prepayable.
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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 150.395

  • Department: means the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • Domestic: when applied to a corporation, partnership, business trust, or limited liability company, means all those incorporated or formed by authority of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Fishing: means to take or attempt to take in any manner, whether the fisherman has fish in possession or not. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • Hunting: means to take or attempt to take in any manner, whether the hunter has game in possession or not. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • Livestock: means cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, alpacas, llamas, buffaloes, and any other animals of the bovine, ovine, porcine, caprine, equine, or camelid species. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • Wildlife: means any normally undomesticated animal, alive or dead, including without limitations any wild mammal, bird, fish, reptile, amphibian, or other terrestrial or aquatic life, whether or not possessed in controlled environment, bred, hatched, or born in captivity and including any part, product, egg, or offspring thereof, protected or unprotected by this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010

Effective: July 14, 2000
History: Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 168, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2000. — Created
1990 Ky. Acts ch. 473, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1990.

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