(1) Within sixty (60) days of July 12, 2006, the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources shall promulgate administrative regulations amending existing requirements for a permit to hold captive cervids in accordance with the provisions of KRS § 150.725 to KRS § 150.735. All other fencing and holding requirements specified in existing administrative regulation for a permit to hold captive cervids adopted on January 5, 2004, shall not be amended in a manner that is in conflict with KRS
150.725 to 150.735 or that increases the stringency of those requirements, except when as ordered by the state veterinarian for disease control and as provided by law or in administrative regulations for the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to control emergency conditions that detrimentally affect wildlife.

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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 150.730

  • Administrative regulation: means a written regulation promulgated, pursuant to
    KRS Chapter 13A, by the commissioner with the approval of the commission. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • Department: means the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. 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
  • Permit: means any document issued by the department authorizing its holder to perform acts authorized by the permit and includes tags or devices as evidence of holding a permit and includes any other form of authorization in addition to or in lieu of an actual document authorized by the department by administrative regulation. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • 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

(2) The department shall have thirty (30) days from the date it receives a completed application to either issue or deny captive permits for propagation and taking of captive cervids by any legal hunting or slaughter methods. If an application demonstrates that the applicant complies with the statutory and administrative requirements for a permit and the applicant removes all wild cervids from the facility, the department shall issue the permit.
Effective: July 12, 2006
History: Created 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 159, sec. 2, effective July 12, 2006.