(1) No person shall set, use, or maintain a trap for the purpose of taking wildlife unless there is attached thereto a metal tag giving either the name and address of, or the wildlife identification number as prescribed in administrative regulation that corresponds to, the person setting, using, or maintaining the trap.
(2) Each person who sets a trap for the purpose of taking wildlife shall visit the same at least once every twenty-four (24) hours and remove any wildlife found therein.

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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 150.410

  • 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
  • Animal: includes every warm-blooded living creature except a human being. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • 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
  • 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) No person shall set a trap in such manner as unreasonably to endanger the life or safety of any domestic animal.
Effective: June 25, 2009
History: Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 20, sec. 4, effective June 25, 2009. — Amended
1992 Ky. Acts ch. 353, sec. 7, July 14, 1992. — Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 365, sec. 11, effective July 15, 1988. — Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 265, sec. 20, effective July 15, 1986. — Amended 1952 Ky. Acts ch. 200, sec. 55, effective June 19, 1952 — Amended 1948 Ky. Acts ch. 52, sec. 2. — Amended 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 68, sec. 42. — Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1954d-62.