Kentucky Statutes 150.010 – Definitions for chapter
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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) “Administrative regulation” means a written regulation promulgated, pursuant to
KRS Chapter 13A, by the commissioner with the approval of the commission;
(2) “Angling” means the taking or attempting to take fish by hook and line in hand, rod in hand, jugging, setline, or sport fishing trotline;
(3) “Buy” includes offering to buy, acquiring, or possessing through purchase, barter, exchange, or trade;
(4) “Cervid” means a hoofed mammal from the family Cervidae, including but not limited to white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk, moose, and caribou;
(5) “Commercial trotline” means a line to which are attached more than fifty (50) single or multibarbed baited hooks, which shall not be placed closer than eighteen (18) inches;
(6) “Commission” means the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission; (7) “Commissioner” means the commissioner of the Department of Fish and Wildlife
Resources;
(8) “Conservation officer” means any member of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Law Enforcement Division, pursuant to KRS § 150.090, who possesses the powers of a peace officer;
(9) “Daylight hours” means the period from one-half (1/2) hour before sunrise to one- half (1/2) hour after sunset;
(10) “Device” means any article, instrument, or equipment of whatever nature or kind which may be used to take wild animals, wild birds, or fishes;
(11) “Department” means the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources;
(12) “Fishing” means to take or attempt to take in any manner, whether the fisherman has fish in possession or not;
(13) “Gigging” means the taking of fish by spearing or impaling on any pronged or barbed instrument attached to the end of any rigid object;
(14) “Grabbing” means the taking of fish, frogs, or turtles directly by hand or with the aid of a handled hook;
(15) “Hunting” means to take or attempt to take in any manner, whether the hunter has game in possession or not;
(16) “Identification tag” means a marker made of specified material upon which a name and address or number is placed and attached to unattended gear to designate ownership or responsible operator;
(17) “Impounded waters” means any public waters backed up behind a dam and includes all water upstream from the dam to the first riffle or shoal;
(18) “Jugging” means a means of fishing by which a single baited line is attached to any floating object;
(19) “License” means any document issued by the department authorizing its holder to perform acts authorized by the license and includes any other form of authorization
in addition to or in lieu of an actual document which may be authorized by the department by administrative regulation;
(20) “Light geese” means snow geese and Ross’s geese;
(21) “Light geese conservation order” means a wildlife management action needed to control populations of light geese for a period of time established pursuant to 50
C.F.R. sec. 21.60;
(22) “Livestock” means cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, alpacas, llamas, buffaloes, and any other animals of the bovine, ovine, porcine, caprine, equine, or camelid species;
(23) “Migratory shore or upland game birds” means all species of migratory game birds except waterfowl;
(24) “Minnows” means all fish under six (6) inches in length, except basses, either largemouth, smallmouth or Kentucky; rock bass or goggle-eye; trout; crappie; walleye; sauger; pike; members of the striped bass family; and muskellunge;
(25) “Navigable waters” means any waters within this state under lock and dam;
(26) “Nonresident” means a person who has not established a permanent domicile in this state and has not resided in this state for thirty (30) days immediately prior to his or her application for a license;
(27) “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;
(28) “Possess” means the act of having or taking into control;
(29) “Prescribed by the department” means established by an administrative regulation; (30) “Processed wildlife” means any wildlife specimen or parts thereof that have been
rendered into a permanently preserved state;
(31) “Protected wildlife” means all wildlife except those species declared unprotected by administrative regulations promulgated by the department;
(32) “Public roadway” includes rural roads, highways, bridges, bridge approaches, city streets, viaducts, and bridges which are normally traveled by the general public and are under the jurisdiction of a state, federal, county, or municipal agency;
(33) “Public waters” means all waters within the state flowing in a natural stream channel or impounded on a natural stream;
(34) “Raw fur” means a hide, fur, or pelt of a fur-bearing animal which has not been processed. Skinning, stretching, oiling, or coloring of the pelt of the animal shall not be considered processing;
(35) “Resident” means any person who has established permanent domicile and legal residence and has resided in this state for thirty (30) days immediately prior to his or her application for a license. All other persons shall be classed as nonresidents, except students enrolled for at least six (6) months in an educational institution as full-time students and military personnel of the United States who are under
permanent assignment, shall be classified as residents while so enrolled or assigned in this state;
(36) “Resist” means to leave the scene, intimidate or attempt to intimidate in any manner, or further interfere in any manner with any officer in the discharge of his or her duties;
(37) “Rough fish” means all species of fishes other than those species designated by administrative regulation as sport fishes;
(38) “Sell” includes offering to sell, having or possessing for sale, barter, exchange, or trade;
(39) “Setline” means a line to which is attached one (1) single or multibarbed hook. This line may be attached to a tree limb, tree trunk, bank pole, or other stationary object, on the bank of a stream or impoundment;
(40) “Snagging” means the taking of fish or other aquatic animals through the use of a hand-held pole and attached line with single or multiple fish hooks in which the fish is hooked by a rapid drawing motion rather than enticement by bait;
(41) “Sports fishing trotline” means a line to which are attached no more than fifty (50) single or multibarbed baited hooks which shall not be placed closer together than eighteen (18) inches;
(42) “Take” includes pursue, shoot, hunt, wound, catch, kill, trap, snare, or capture wildlife in any way and any lesser act designed to lure, attract, or entice for these purposes; and to place, set, aim, or use any device, animal, substance, or agency which may reasonably be expected to accomplish these acts; or to attempt to do these acts or to assist any other person in the doing of or the attempt to do these acts;
(43) “Tenant” means any resident sharecropper, lessee, or any other person actually engaged in work upon a farm or lands and residing in a dwelling on the farms or lands including noncontiguous lands, but shall not include any other employee or tenant unless actually residing on the property and engaged or employed as above mentioned;
(44) “Transport” means to carry, move, or ship wildlife from one (1) place to another; (45) “Waterfowl” means all species of wild ducks, geese, swans, mergansers, and coots;
and
(46) “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.
Effective: July 15, 2020
History: Amended 2020 Ky. Acts ch. 115, sec. 2, effective July 15, 2020. — Amended
2019 Ky. Acts ch. 115, sec. 1, effective June 27, 2019; and ch. 167, sec. 1, effective June 27, 2019. — Amended 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 129, sec. 4, effective June 29, 2017. — Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 512, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998. — Amended 1996
Ky. Acts ch. 268, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1996. — Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 239, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1994. — Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 474, sec. 1, effective
July 13, 1990. — Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 365, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1988. — Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 265, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1986. — Amended 1978
Ky. Acts ch. 178, sec. 1, effective June 17, 1978. — Amended 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 273, sec. 1. — Amended 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 38, sec. 1. — Amended 1956 Ky. Acts ch. 115, sec. 1. — Amended 1952 Ky. Acts ch. 200, sec. 1. — Amended 1948 Ky. Acts ch. 78, sec. 2. — Amended 1946 Ky. Acts ch. 84, sec. 1. — Amended 1944 Ky. Acts ch. 6, sec. 2; and ch. 124, sec. 1. — Amended 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 68, sec. 1. — Recodified
1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 1893d-
10, 1954-2.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/2020). Under the authority of KRS
7.136(1), the Reviser of Statutes has altered the format of this statute during codification to place the terms in alphabetical order. The words in the text were not changed.
(1) “Administrative regulation” means a written regulation promulgated, pursuant to
Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 150.010
- Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
- 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
- Buy: includes offering to buy, acquiring, or possessing through purchase, barter, exchange, or trade. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
- City: includes town. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
- Commission: means the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
- Commissioner: means the commissioner of the Department of Fish and Wildlife
Resources. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010 - Department: means the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
- 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
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Federal: refers to the United States. 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
- Jugging: means a means of fishing by which a single baited line is attached to any floating object. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- License: means any document issued by the department authorizing its holder to perform acts authorized by the license and includes any other form of authorization
in addition to or in lieu of an actual document which may be authorized by the department by administrative regulation. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010 - Light geese: means snow geese and Ross's geese. 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
- Resident: means any person who has established permanent domicile and legal residence and has resided in this state for thirty (30) days immediately prior to his or her application for a license. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
- Sell: includes offering to sell, having or possessing for sale, barter, exchange, or trade. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
- Setline: means a line to which is attached one (1) single or multibarbed hook. 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
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
- Take: includes pursue, shoot, hunt, wound, catch, kill, trap, snare, or capture wildlife in any way and any lesser act designed to lure, attract, or entice for these purposes. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
- Tenant: means any resident sharecropper, lessee, or any other person actually engaged in work upon a farm or lands and residing in a dwelling on the farms or lands including noncontiguous lands, but shall not include any other employee or tenant unless actually residing on the property and engaged or employed as above mentioned. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
- Waterfowl: means all species of wild ducks, geese, swans, mergansers, and coots. 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
KRS Chapter 13A, by the commissioner with the approval of the commission;
(2) “Angling” means the taking or attempting to take fish by hook and line in hand, rod in hand, jugging, setline, or sport fishing trotline;
(3) “Buy” includes offering to buy, acquiring, or possessing through purchase, barter, exchange, or trade;
(4) “Cervid” means a hoofed mammal from the family Cervidae, including but not limited to white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk, moose, and caribou;
(5) “Commercial trotline” means a line to which are attached more than fifty (50) single or multibarbed baited hooks, which shall not be placed closer than eighteen (18) inches;
(6) “Commission” means the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission; (7) “Commissioner” means the commissioner of the Department of Fish and Wildlife
Resources;
(8) “Conservation officer” means any member of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Law Enforcement Division, pursuant to KRS § 150.090, who possesses the powers of a peace officer;
(9) “Daylight hours” means the period from one-half (1/2) hour before sunrise to one- half (1/2) hour after sunset;
(10) “Device” means any article, instrument, or equipment of whatever nature or kind which may be used to take wild animals, wild birds, or fishes;
(11) “Department” means the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources;
(12) “Fishing” means to take or attempt to take in any manner, whether the fisherman has fish in possession or not;
(13) “Gigging” means the taking of fish by spearing or impaling on any pronged or barbed instrument attached to the end of any rigid object;
(14) “Grabbing” means the taking of fish, frogs, or turtles directly by hand or with the aid of a handled hook;
(15) “Hunting” means to take or attempt to take in any manner, whether the hunter has game in possession or not;
(16) “Identification tag” means a marker made of specified material upon which a name and address or number is placed and attached to unattended gear to designate ownership or responsible operator;
(17) “Impounded waters” means any public waters backed up behind a dam and includes all water upstream from the dam to the first riffle or shoal;
(18) “Jugging” means a means of fishing by which a single baited line is attached to any floating object;
(19) “License” means any document issued by the department authorizing its holder to perform acts authorized by the license and includes any other form of authorization
in addition to or in lieu of an actual document which may be authorized by the department by administrative regulation;
(20) “Light geese” means snow geese and Ross’s geese;
(21) “Light geese conservation order” means a wildlife management action needed to control populations of light geese for a period of time established pursuant to 50
C.F.R. sec. 21.60;
(22) “Livestock” means cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, alpacas, llamas, buffaloes, and any other animals of the bovine, ovine, porcine, caprine, equine, or camelid species;
(23) “Migratory shore or upland game birds” means all species of migratory game birds except waterfowl;
(24) “Minnows” means all fish under six (6) inches in length, except basses, either largemouth, smallmouth or Kentucky; rock bass or goggle-eye; trout; crappie; walleye; sauger; pike; members of the striped bass family; and muskellunge;
(25) “Navigable waters” means any waters within this state under lock and dam;
(26) “Nonresident” means a person who has not established a permanent domicile in this state and has not resided in this state for thirty (30) days immediately prior to his or her application for a license;
(27) “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;
(28) “Possess” means the act of having or taking into control;
(29) “Prescribed by the department” means established by an administrative regulation; (30) “Processed wildlife” means any wildlife specimen or parts thereof that have been
rendered into a permanently preserved state;
(31) “Protected wildlife” means all wildlife except those species declared unprotected by administrative regulations promulgated by the department;
(32) “Public roadway” includes rural roads, highways, bridges, bridge approaches, city streets, viaducts, and bridges which are normally traveled by the general public and are under the jurisdiction of a state, federal, county, or municipal agency;
(33) “Public waters” means all waters within the state flowing in a natural stream channel or impounded on a natural stream;
(34) “Raw fur” means a hide, fur, or pelt of a fur-bearing animal which has not been processed. Skinning, stretching, oiling, or coloring of the pelt of the animal shall not be considered processing;
(35) “Resident” means any person who has established permanent domicile and legal residence and has resided in this state for thirty (30) days immediately prior to his or her application for a license. All other persons shall be classed as nonresidents, except students enrolled for at least six (6) months in an educational institution as full-time students and military personnel of the United States who are under
permanent assignment, shall be classified as residents while so enrolled or assigned in this state;
(36) “Resist” means to leave the scene, intimidate or attempt to intimidate in any manner, or further interfere in any manner with any officer in the discharge of his or her duties;
(37) “Rough fish” means all species of fishes other than those species designated by administrative regulation as sport fishes;
(38) “Sell” includes offering to sell, having or possessing for sale, barter, exchange, or trade;
(39) “Setline” means a line to which is attached one (1) single or multibarbed hook. This line may be attached to a tree limb, tree trunk, bank pole, or other stationary object, on the bank of a stream or impoundment;
(40) “Snagging” means the taking of fish or other aquatic animals through the use of a hand-held pole and attached line with single or multiple fish hooks in which the fish is hooked by a rapid drawing motion rather than enticement by bait;
(41) “Sports fishing trotline” means a line to which are attached no more than fifty (50) single or multibarbed baited hooks which shall not be placed closer together than eighteen (18) inches;
(42) “Take” includes pursue, shoot, hunt, wound, catch, kill, trap, snare, or capture wildlife in any way and any lesser act designed to lure, attract, or entice for these purposes; and to place, set, aim, or use any device, animal, substance, or agency which may reasonably be expected to accomplish these acts; or to attempt to do these acts or to assist any other person in the doing of or the attempt to do these acts;
(43) “Tenant” means any resident sharecropper, lessee, or any other person actually engaged in work upon a farm or lands and residing in a dwelling on the farms or lands including noncontiguous lands, but shall not include any other employee or tenant unless actually residing on the property and engaged or employed as above mentioned;
(44) “Transport” means to carry, move, or ship wildlife from one (1) place to another; (45) “Waterfowl” means all species of wild ducks, geese, swans, mergansers, and coots;
and
(46) “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.
Effective: July 15, 2020
History: Amended 2020 Ky. Acts ch. 115, sec. 2, effective July 15, 2020. — Amended
2019 Ky. Acts ch. 115, sec. 1, effective June 27, 2019; and ch. 167, sec. 1, effective June 27, 2019. — Amended 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 129, sec. 4, effective June 29, 2017. — Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 512, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998. — Amended 1996
Ky. Acts ch. 268, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1996. — Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 239, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1994. — Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 474, sec. 1, effective
July 13, 1990. — Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 365, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1988. — Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 265, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1986. — Amended 1978
Ky. Acts ch. 178, sec. 1, effective June 17, 1978. — Amended 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 273, sec. 1. — Amended 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 38, sec. 1. — Amended 1956 Ky. Acts ch. 115, sec. 1. — Amended 1952 Ky. Acts ch. 200, sec. 1. — Amended 1948 Ky. Acts ch. 78, sec. 2. — Amended 1946 Ky. Acts ch. 84, sec. 1. — Amended 1944 Ky. Acts ch. 6, sec. 2; and ch. 124, sec. 1. — Amended 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 68, sec. 1. — Recodified
1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 1893d-
10, 1954-2.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/2020). Under the authority of KRS
7.136(1), the Reviser of Statutes has altered the format of this statute during codification to place the terms in alphabetical order. The words in the text were not changed.