(1) No person shall take, pursue, possess, transport, purchase or sell or attempt to do so, any migratory birds, except as authorized by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (40 Stat.
755) as amended and regulations under it.

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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 150.330

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Possess: means the act of having or taking into control. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • Sell: includes offering to sell, having or possessing for sale, barter, exchange, or trade. 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
  • 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
  • Transport: means to carry, move, or ship wildlife from one (1) place to another. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • Waterfowl: means all species of wild ducks, geese, swans, mergansers, and coots. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010

(2) No person sixteen (16) years of age or older shall hunt any waterfowl unless, at the time, in addition to the appropriate state hunting license and current migratory bird/waterfowl permit, he has on his person a valid migratory bird hunting stamp of current issue as required by the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act (48 Stat. 451) as amended.
Effective: June 27, 2019
History: Amended 2019 Ky. Acts ch. 115, sec. 5, effective June 27, 2019. — Amended
1988 Ky. Acts ch. 365, sec. 9, effective July 15, 1988. — Amended 1968 Ky. Acts ch.
38, sec. 16. — Amended 1964 Ky. Acts ch. 143, sec. 1. — Amended 1952 Ky. Acts ch. 200, sec. 45. — Amended 1948 Ky. Acts ch. 78, sec. 17. — Amended 1946 Ky. Acts ch. 84, sec. 13. — Amended 1944 Ky. Acts ch. 124, sec. 6. — Amended 1942
Ky. Acts ch. 68, sec. 33. — Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective
October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1954d-54.