§ 150.010 Definitions for chapter
§ 150.015 Purpose of 1952 Act amending game and fish laws — Policy of state as to wildlife — Liberal construction — Promotion of hunger relief through wildlife management and conservation
§ 150.021 Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources — Administrative attachment to Tourism, Arts, and Heritage Cabinet — Assessment of fee for debt service on radio system capital project — Department not subject to reorganization
§ 150.022 Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission — Appointment processes and conditions — Definition of “sportsman.”
§ 150.023 Meetings and functions of commission
§ 150.024 Power to acquire property — Condemnation
§ 150.0241 Access to and use of commission-managed lands for hunting — Duties of commission and other state agencies — Reports
§ 150.0242 Department procurements — Applicability of Executive Branch Code of Ethics — Administrative regulations
§ 150.025 Power of department to make administrative regulations as to game and fish, including seasons and limits — Inclusion of administrative regulations on department’s Web site
§ 150.027 Hearing required before promulgation, amendment, or repeal of administrative regulations affecting property owners or occupants of property adjacent to a lake or other real property owned or controlled by the department
§ 150.028 Required administrative regulations
§ 150.061 Commissioner — Appointment — Qualifications — Term — Removal — Compensation — Oath — Bond — Duties — Annual report — Authority to appoint additional employees if grant funds available
§ 150.081 Political activity forbidden
§ 150.090 Commissioner’s power and duty to appoint all conservation officers considered to be necessary for the efficient administration of the department — Each conservation officer is individually vested with the powers of a peace officer in all parts of t
§ 150.092 Consent requirement for entry upon lands of another person — Private lands incentive programs — Arrest and citation authority
§ 150.095 Conservation officers may bear arms
§ 150.097 Indemnification by the Commonwealth of conservation officer who is sued in his or her individual capacity and personally suffers financial loss — Indemnification contingent upon findings that the act or omission which resulted in liability was lawf
§ 150.100 Execution of process by commissioner, department personnel and persons appointed by commissioner
§ 150.105 Destruction or control of animals causing damage
§ 150.110 Enforcement of law as to mussels
§ 150.120 Seizure and sale of contraband
§ 150.130 County and Commonwealth’s attorneys to enforce laws and regulations
§ 150.140 Report and payment of moneys by circuit clerk
§ 150.150 Game and fish fund — Mussel beds — Funds for hunger relief — Accounting and report — Contribution to Becoming an Outdoors-Woman Program
§ 150.152 Report of audit of department by Auditor of Public Accounts
§ 150.160 Disposition of fines
§ 150.165 Nongame fish and wildlife fund
§ 150.170 Requirement of hunting, fishing, trapping, or guide’s license — Exceptions — Killing of wildlife causing damage — Reporting requirements — Reciprocity with adjoining states — Exception for active duty or reserve members on military property —
§ 150.172 Possession and use of firearm for self-defense and defense of others while hunting or trapping — Exceptions — Administrative regulations
§ 150.175 Kinds of licenses and tags — Multiyear licenses or permits
§ 150.177 Special permit for incorporated nonprofit wildlife conservation organization
§ 150.178 Cooperator permits — Administrative regulations
§ 150.179 Waiver of license requirement and discounting of licenses or permits for event supporting a recreational activity — Free-fishing weekend
§ 150.180 Buying, selling, or transporting protected wildlife, mussels and fishes, raw fur, or processed wildlife
§ 150.183 Importing, transporting or possessing endangered species of wildlife
§ 150.186 Release of hog or pig into the wild prohibited — Importing, possessing, or transporting wild or feral pig or boar prohibited — Accidental escape of livestock exempted
§ 150.190 Commercial guide’s license
§ 150.195 Design, issuance, and distribution of licenses and permits — Administrative regulations
§ 150.225 Prescription of license, permit, and registration fees — Fiduciary capacity of person who collects, receives, possesses, or manages fees
§ 150.235 License or permit required — To be carried on person — Nonresidents — Effect of revocation or suspension of license or permit
§ 150.236 Effect of revocation or suspension of license by another jurisdiction in United States or Canada
§ 150.238 Reciprocal agreements with other states relating to violations of hunting and fishing laws — Administrative regulations
§ 150.240 Contract for game refuge — Public or commercial shooting areas
§ 150.250 Contract for wildlife preservation or propagation
§ 150.255 Wetland or stream compensatory mitigation projects — Mitigation fund — Purposes
§ 150.260 Wildlife restoration in cooperation with federal government
§ 150.270 Consent to acquisition by United States of migratory bird reservations
§ 150.275 Permit to take and transport wildlife for commercial nuisance wildlife control, scientific, or educational purposes — Fees to be set by administrative regulation
§ 150.280 Propagation and holding of protected wildlife — Permits — Revocation for violation of state or federal law
§ 150.290 Sale and transportation of wildlife by breeders
§ 150.300 Poaching — Destroying or defacing signs and notices
§ 150.305 Possession of wildlife or raw fur out of season — Inspection of commercial frozen food lockers
§ 150.320 Birds not protected — Nests and eggs
§ 150.330 Migratory birds — Waterfowl
§ 150.340 Bag and creel limits — Limit on possession — Migratory birds
§ 150.355 Ferrets
§ 150.360 Restrictions on taking of wildlife — Discharge of weapon across public roadway prohibited
§ 150.361 Taking game with a firearm during bow season prohibited
§ 150.362 Prohibition against taking wildlife by person under influence of alcohol or controlled substance
§ 150.363 Computer-assisted remote hunting unlawful — Citizens with disabilities
§ 150.365 Fire, explosives, electric devices, gas, smoke to take wildlife prohibited
§ 150.370 Open season for wildlife — Exceptions
§ 150.390 Restrictions on hunting wild elk, deer, wild turkey, or bear — Depredation permits — Administrative regulations — Methods to reduce deer and elk populations that threaten agriculture or health and human safety
§ 150.395 Prohibition against use of artificial light
§ 150.399 Traps illegally set or used — Seizure or treatment as contraband
§ 150.400 Traps — Approval — Prohibition — New design
§ 150.410 Tagging of traps — Visiting trap line — Protection of domestic animals
§ 150.411 Taxidermist’s records — Mounting
§ 150.4111 Sale of legally taken wildlife
§ 150.4112 Administrative regulations to allow resident nonprofit 501(c)(3) institution to sell donated mounted wildlife specimen
§ 150.4113 Administrative regulations to allow sale and purchase of mounted wildlife specimens — Recording of sales
§ 150.412 Restriction on commercial guide’s participation in taking of wildlife or fish while providing guide services
§ 150.415 Fur buyer — Receipts for purchases
§ 150.416 Fur processor — Receipts and inventory
§ 150.417 Nonresident accompanying resident fur buyer — Presumption from
§ 150.425 Bounty on beaver
§ 150.440 Open season and creel limits for rough fish
§ 150.445 Fish not to be taken other than by pole and line near dams
§ 150.450 Use, operation, and possession of certain fishing gear
§ 150.460 Use of certain substances and devices in public waters prohibited — Use of explosives and firearms prohibited
§ 150.470 Creel and size limits for fish
§ 150.485 Live fish and bait dealers
§ 150.520 Department may regulate musseling
§ 150.525 License for buying mussel shells or mussels in the shell
§ 150.600 Regulation of the taking of waterfowl
§ 150.603 Migratory bird/waterfowl permit required — Exceptions — Use of revenue generated by sale of migratory bird/waterfowl permit
§ 150.610 Issuance of revenue bonds for purpose of establishing public shooting areas, wildlife refuges, public fishing lakes or other projects — Pledging of revenue — Liens
§ 150.620 Acquisition of lands for establishment and maintenance of public shooting, fishing, and other recreational areas — Operation of facilities and lands — Subleasing of land
§ 150.625 Highway construction lakes
§ 150.630 Violations of law pertaining to shooting or hunting preserves — Cancellation or revocation of license
§ 150.640 Acts of depredation prohibited while hunting, fishing or trapping — Domestic livestock roaming on department lands prohibited
§ 150.645 Liability of landowner consenting to hunting, fishing, trapping, camping, or hiking on premises — Claims for property damage by state employees participating in wildlife management practices
§ 150.660 Establishment of pay lakes, authority of commissioner concerning — Stocking requirement — Permits — Revocation of license
§ 150.680 Concurrent criminal jurisdiction of portions of Trigg and Lyon Counties within boundaries of Land Between the Lakes ceded to United States
§ 150.690 Wrongfully entering park and injuring or killing deer, elk or buffalo — Treble damages
§ 150.700 Destroying private fish pond — Treble damages
§ 150.710 Intentional obstruction of lawful taking of wildlife
§ 150.720 Administrative regulations relating to cervids — Costs resulting from importation of diseased animal
§ 150.722 Authorized methods of disposal of cervid carcass material and waste by cervid meat processors, butchers or meat processors, and licensed taxidermists
§ 150.725 Definitions for KRS 150.725 to 150.735
§ 150.730 Permits to hold captive cervids — Amendments to existing holding and fencing requirements — Duties of department
§ 150.735 Placement of primary containment fence — Expansion of captive cervid facility — Transfer of permits — Violation of captive cervid law or regulation — Rights and potential penalties
§ 150.740 Ban on live Cervidae importation except under certain conditions — Penalties — Reports on chronic wasting disease to be submitted to Interim Joint Committees annually — Authority of department to seize captive cervids — Hearing — Appeal
§ 150.990 Penalties
§ 150.995 Violations for which additional restitution shall be paid to department
§ 150.999 Prepayment of fines subject to certain conditions
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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 150 - Fish and Wildlife Resources

  • 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
  • Angling: means the taking or attempting to take fish by hook and line in hand, rod in hand, jugging, setline, or sport fishing trotline. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • Animal: includes every warm-blooded living creature except a human being. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • any other state: includes any state, territory, outlying possession, the District of Columbia, and any foreign government or country. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Attorney: means attorney-at-law. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Buy: includes offering to buy, acquiring, or possessing through purchase, barter, exchange, or trade. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • Cervid: means a hoofed mammal from the family Cervidae, including but not limited to white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk, moose, and caribou. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • 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
  • Company: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Conservation officer: means any member of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Law Enforcement Division, pursuant to KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Corporation: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Department: means the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
  • 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
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
  • Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • 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
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Gigging: means the taking of fish by spearing or impaling on any pronged or barbed instrument attached to the end of any rigid object. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • Grabbing: means the taking of fish, frogs, or turtles directly by hand or with the aid of a handled hook. 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
  • 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. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • 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.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • 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
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Light geese: means snow geese and Ross's geese. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • 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. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • Livestock: means cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, alpacas, llamas, buffaloes, and any other animals of the bovine, ovine, porcine, caprine, equine, or camelid species. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • Migratory shore or upland game birds: means all species of migratory game birds except waterfowl. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • Minnows: means all fish under six (6) inches in length, except basses, either largemouth, smallmouth or Kentucky. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • Month: means calendar month. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • 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. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Owner: when applied to any animal, means any person having a property interest in such animal. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • 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
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Possess: means the act of having or taking into control. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Prescribed by the department: means established by an administrative regulation. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Processed wildlife: means any wildlife specimen or parts thereof that have been
    rendered into a permanently preserved state. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • Protected wildlife: means all wildlife except those species declared unprotected by administrative regulations promulgated by the department. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • 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. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Raw fur: means a hide, fur, or pelt of a fur-bearing animal which has not been processed. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • 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
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • Rough fish: means all species of fishes other than those species designated by administrative regulation as sport fishes. 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
  • 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. 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
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • 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
  • Transport: means to carry, move, or ship wildlife from one (1) place to another. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Violate: includes failure to comply with. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • 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