Part 13: INLAND FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE HEADING: PL 2003, C. 414, PT. A, §2 (NEW); PT. D, §7 (AFF); C. 614, §9 (AFF)
Subpart 4: FISH AND WILDLIFE HEADING: PL 2003, C. 414, PT. A, §2 (NEW); PT. D, §7 (AFF); C. 614, §9 (AFF)
Chapter 917: TRAPPING HEADING: PL 2003, C. 414, PT. A, §2 (NEW); PT. D, §7 (AFF); C. 614, §9 (AFF)
Subchapter 2: TRAPPING SEASON, REQUIREMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS HEADING: PL 2003, C. 414, PT. A, §2 (NEW); PT. D, §7 (AFF); C. 614, §9 (AFF)
§12252. Unlawful trapping methods
1.Unlawfully rigging traps.
A person may not use auxiliary teeth on any leg-hold trap set on land.
[
2003, c. 414, Pt. A, §2 (NEW);
2003, c. 614, §9 (AFF)
.]
2.Use or possession of prohibited implements or aids.
A person may not:
A. Set or tend a snare for the purpose of trapping any wild animal or wild bird, except as provided in section 10105, subsection
1 and section 12259; [2003, c. 414, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); 2003, c. 614, §9 (AFF).]
B. Set or tend a set gun for the purpose of killing, taking, catching, wounding, harming or molesting any wild animal or wild
bird; [2003, c. 414, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); 2003, c. 614, §9 (AFF).]
C. Deposit any poisonous or stupefying substance for the purpose of killing, taking, catching, wounding, harming or molesting
any wild animal or wild bird, except that a landowner or member of the landowner's immediate family may use gas cartridges
on the landowner's own land for woodchuck control; or [2003, c. 414, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); 2003, c. 614, §9 (AFF).]
D. Sell, advertise, give notice of the sale or keep for sale any set gun or poisonous substance for the taking of wild animals
or wild birds, except that a person may sell, advertise, give notice of sale of or keep for sale rodenticide for orchard mouse
control and gas cartridges for woodchuck control. [2003, c. 414, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); 2003, c. 614, §9 (AFF).]
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2003, c. 414, Pt. A, §2 (NEW);
2003, c. 614, §9 (AFF)
.]
3.Use of pole traps.
A person may not use or set any steel trap on the top of a pole, constituting a device commonly known as a "pole trap" for
the purposes of catching any wild bird.
[
2003, c. 414, Pt. A, §2 (NEW);
2003, c. 614, §9 (AFF)
.]
4.Penalty.
A person who violates this section commits a Class E crime.
[
2003, c. 655, Pt. B, §214 (NEW);
2003, c. 655, Pt. B, §422 (AFF)
.]
SECTION HISTORY
2003, c. 414, §A2 (NEW).
2003, c. 414, §D7 (AFF).
2003, c. 614, §9 (AFF).
2003, c. 655, §B214 (AMD).
2003, c. 655, §B422 (AFF).
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