(1) No person shall set, use or maintain, for the purpose of taking wildlife, any steel trap unless the size and type of the trap has been approved by the commissioner and the commission by regulation.
(2) The commissioner may approve, by regulation, any commercially manufactured trap which is designed to take wildlife alive and unhurt or to kill instantly.

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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 150.400

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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) Subject to the provisions of KRS § 150.410 it shall be lawful to use snares, deadfalls, wire cage or box traps, but no person shall set, use or maintain a snare large enough to take deer, elk or bear.
(4) Any manufacturer designing a new trap may send a sample to the commissioner for approval or disapproval.
Effective: July 15, 1986
History: Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 265, sec. 19, effective July 15, 1986. — Amended
1960 Ky. Acts ch. 126, sec. 1, effective June 16, 1960. — Amended 1952 Ky. Acts ch. 200, sec. 54. — Amended 1948 Ky. Acts ch. 52, sec. 1. — Amended 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 68, sec. 41. — Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1,
1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 1954d-62a to 1954d-62c.