Kentucky Statutes 150.363 – Computer-assisted remote hunting unlawful — Citizens with disabilities
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(1) For purposes of this section, “computer-assisted remote hunting” means the use of a computer or any other device, equipment, or software to remotely control the aiming and discharge of a rifle, shotgun, handgun, bow and arrow, crossbow, or any other implement to hunt or harvest wildlife in the Commonwealth.
(2) It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt or harvest wildlife in the Commonwealth by means of computer-assisted remote hunting.
(3) It shall be unlawful for any person to provide or operate a facility that allows others to engage in computer-assisted remote hunting of wildlife in the Commonwealth.
(4) The provisions of this section shall not be construed to limit or prohibit the hunting rights or privileges provided to citizens with disabilities pursuant to KRS § 150.025, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Kentucky administrative regulations. Additionally, this section shall not be construed to prohibit a person who is physically impaired, to the degree that he or she cannot operate a device allowed for taking of game under Kentucky law, from taking game, subject to administrative regulations, with a device which is in the immediate vicinity of the permittee and which the permittee operates using remote-control technology other than the Internet.
Effective: July 12, 2006
History: Created 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 209, sec. 1, effective July 12, 2006.
(2) It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt or harvest wildlife in the Commonwealth by means of computer-assisted remote hunting.
Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 150.363
- Device: means any article, instrument, or equipment of whatever nature or kind which may be used to take wild animals, wild birds, or fishes. 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
- 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
(3) It shall be unlawful for any person to provide or operate a facility that allows others to engage in computer-assisted remote hunting of wildlife in the Commonwealth.
(4) The provisions of this section shall not be construed to limit or prohibit the hunting rights or privileges provided to citizens with disabilities pursuant to KRS § 150.025, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Kentucky administrative regulations. Additionally, this section shall not be construed to prohibit a person who is physically impaired, to the degree that he or she cannot operate a device allowed for taking of game under Kentucky law, from taking game, subject to administrative regulations, with a device which is in the immediate vicinity of the permittee and which the permittee operates using remote-control technology other than the Internet.
Effective: July 12, 2006
History: Created 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 209, sec. 1, effective July 12, 2006.