Title XII, Conservation and State Development

Purposes. (1) Upon request of any state agency or any other entity, the department may contract with the agency or party to undertake any compensatory mitigation project, including, but not limited to, wetland or stream mitigation. (2) The department may establish and manage wetl…

Kentucky assents to the provisions of acts of Congress which provide that the United States shall aid the states in wildlife restoration projects, and for other purposes, as approved September 2, 1937, and August 9, 1950, as well as other acts related to wildlife. The department …

(1) Kentucky consents to the acquisition by the United States by purchase, gift, devise or lease of such areas in Kentucky as the United States may deem necessary for the establishment of migratory bird reservations in accordance with the Migratory Bird Conservation Act, approved…

control, scientific, or educational purposes -- Fees to be set by administrative regulation. (1) The commissioner may issue to any qualified person a permit to take and transport wildlife at any time for commercial nuisance wildlife control, scientific, or educational purposes; s…

violation of state or federal law. (1) Except as provided by administrative regulation, a person shall not propagate or hold protected wildlife without obtaining a permit to do so from the department. The department shall promulgate administrative regulations governing all such a…

(1) Any breeder may sell and transport wildlife alive for propagation, and for food purposes, or minnows for bait, during seasons prescribed by the commission. Such wildlife shall be identified either by marking their container or by individual tagging, as the commissioner may pr…

(1) No person shall, without first securing the permission of the commissioner, enter upon the premises of a propagation farm, game farm or game refuge, or fish hatchery and take wildlife; or, without the consent of the property owner, enter upon any pond and take wildlife or fou…

frozen food lockers. (1) Subject to regulations adopted under this chapter and except as otherwise provided in this section, no person shall have in his possession any wildlife protected by this chapter, or any raw fur, except during the open season for the particular species, un…

(1) No person shall take any wild bird except game birds or live raptors for which there is an open season, either under the laws of Kentucky and the regulations of the department or the laws of the United States, except those birds mentioned in subsection (2) of this section. (2…

(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. (2) No person sixteen (16) years of age or older shall hunt a…

(1) No person shall take more wildlife in any one (1) day than the bag or creel limit prescribed for the species by the department. (2) A person who has hunted two (2) or more days in succession may transport as personal baggage a total of not more than three (3) times the bag li…

(1) No person shall use ferrets in hunting. No person shall keep a ferret which was born in the wild as a pet or for any purpose, unless he has procured a ferret permit from the commissioner. A permit must be obtained within ten (10) days after the person acquires possession of a…

roadway prohibited. (1) No person shall take any wildlife, whether protected by this chapter or not, except by trapping, snaring, gig, crossbow, bow and arrow, hook and line, nets, gun, gun and dog, dog, falconry, or as expressly prescribed by regulation. (2) Shotguns used in the…

(1) Except as provided in this section, no person shall knowingly take game with a firearm during bow season. (2) This section shall not apply to a person who: (a) Uses a firearm permitted by law to take game permitted by law to be taken during bow season; or (b) Kills, attempts …

controlled substance. (1) A person shall not take or attempt to take wildlife with a firearm, bow, or crossbow, if the person is manifestly under the influence of alcohol or any controlled substance, and the person: (a) May endanger himself or herself or other persons or property…

(1) For purposes of this section, "computer-assisted remote hunting" means the use of a computer or any other device, equipment, or software to remotely control the aiming and discharge of a rifle, shotgun, handgun, bow and arrow, crossbow, or any other implement to hunt or harve…

No wildlife may be taken as the result of a fire, or any type of explosive, or with the aid of any mechanical, electric or hand operated sonic recording devices, except as specified by regulation. No person shall use smoke or gas or in any other way molest or destroy the den, hol…

(1) No person shall take any wildlife except during the open season for the particular species as prescribed by the department. (2) Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to persons who hunt red fox at night with dogs for sport and not to kill; and who during daylight or …

permits -- Administrative regulations -- Methods to reduce deer and elk populations that threaten agriculture or health and human safety -- Taking of anterless deer. (1) No person shall possess, take, pursue, or attempt to take or pursue or otherwise molest any wild elk, deer, wi…

(1) No person or group of persons may deliberately cast the rays of a spotlight or other artificial light into any field, pasture, woodlands, or forest, whether public or private, where wildlife or domestic livestock may reasonably be expected to be located, or into any inhabited…

Any trap set, used, or maintained in violation of the provisions of KRS 150.400 or 150.410 shall be subject to confiscation as contraband under the provisions of KRS 150.120, except that any trap set, used, or maintained without the tag required by subsection (1) of KRS 150.410 i…

(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…

(1) No person shall set, use, or maintain a trap for the purpose of taking wildlife unless there is attached thereto a metal tag giving either the name and address of, or the wildlife identification number as prescribed in administrative regulation that corresponds to, the person…

(1) Every licensed taxidermist shall keep a suitable record for five (5) years in which shall be entered the species of each wildlife mounted by him and the name and address of the person for whom the mounting was done. (2) Any legally taken wildlife may be mounted, provided the …

(1) Any person may sell the inedible parts of any legally taken wildlife to a licensed taxidermist for the purpose of mounting. A licensed taxidermist may buy or sell the inedible parts of any legally taken wildlife for the purpose of mounting, except as otherwise prohibited by f…

institution to sell donated mounted wildlife specimen. (1) As used in this section, "mounted wildlife specimen" means: (a) A legally taken animal, including the skin of the head, cape, or the entire skin, mounted in a lifelike representation of the animal or any part thereof; or …

specimens -- Recording of sales. (1) As used in this section, "mounted wildlife specimen" means: (a) A legally taken animal, including the skin of the head, cape, or the entire skin, mounted in a lifelike representation of the animal or any part thereof; or (b) A European mount i…

while providing guide services. (1) While providing the services of a commercial guide, a guide already possessing the applicable sport hunting licenses and permits may participate in the taking of wildlife protected by this chapter up to the bag limit set forth in administrative…

Every licensed fur buyer shall, upon purchasing any raw fur, issue a receipt to the trapper or hunter from whom he has purchased such furs, setting forth the number and kind of furs, the date of the purchase, the price paid for each fur and the license number of the trapper's or …

Every licensed fur processor shall, within fifteen (15) days after January 1 and July 1 of each year file with the department an inventory of furs in his possession as of such dates. Every licensed fur processor shall also issue receipts for the total number of furs purchased fro…

In any prosecution of a nonresident from buying raw fur or furs without a fur buyer's license, proof that such person was in the company of a resident fur buyer at the time the latter purchased a raw fur shall constitute a prima facie evidence that such nonresident was engaged in…

(1) Upon adoption of a resolution by the fiscal court that beaver exist within the county in such quantities that they present a threat to the preservation of farmland, trees, and other property, the fiscal court may request the department to pay a bounty on beaver. Upon receipt …

(1) The open season for taking rough fish by gigging, grabbing, snaring, and snagging shall be prescribed by the department, by regulation. (2) Creel limits for rough fish taken by gigging, grabbing, snaring, and snagging shall be set by the department, by regulation.

No person shall take fish by any method other than pole and line in hand, for two hundred (200) yards below any dam on or across any stream except as otherwise provided by administrative regulation.

(1) The department shall promulgate reasonable regulations governing the taking of minnows and crayfish from the waters of the Commonwealth. The regulations shall prescribe the type of gear to be used, and shall prescribe the types of minnows and crayfish that may be taken and th…

explosives and firearms prohibited. (1) No person, firm or corporation, whether acting in a private or public capacity, shall place or cause to be placed in any public waters any substance that might injure, interfere with, or cause the waters to be unfit for the support of wildl…

(1) No person shall take or have in his or her possession in any one (1) day more fish than the creel limit prescribed in the regulation. The regulation shall also provide the possession limit. (2) No person shall take or have in his or her possession any fish smaller than the si…

No person shall sell live crayfish, mud eels, spring lizards, fish, aquatic invertebrates, or amphibians for bait to be used in taking fishes, nor live fishes for stocking or fishing purposes unless he has obtained a live fish and bait dealer's license.

The department shall make such requirements by administrative regulations governing the taking, selling, and buying of mussels and the reporting of musseling operations as it may deem best for the proper enforcement of this chapter. To prevent depletion of the mussel beds and to …

No person may engage in the buying of mussel shells or mussels in the shell in this state unless he has in his possession a license authorizing him to do so.

The commissioner, with the approval of the commission, shall have the authority to regulate the taking of waterfowl within the state and shall further have the power to establish waterfowl refuges and waterfowl shooting grounds, regulate distance of pits and shooting from refuges…

generated by sale of migratory bird/waterfowl permit. (1) Any person required to possess a hunting license under the provisions of KRS 150.170, except children under sixteen (16) years of age, taking or attempting to take waterfowl within the state shall, in addition to the appro…

areas, wildlife refuges, public fishing lakes or other projects -- Pledging of revenue -- Liens. The commissioner of the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, with approval of the commission, may call for the issuance of revenue bonds pursuant to the entire terms of KRS 58.0…

fishing, and other recreational areas -- Operation of facilities and lands -- Subleasing of land. For the purpose of encouraging and developing public interest in wildlife and carrying out the policy of the Commonwealth of Kentucky under KRS Chapter 150, the Department of Fish an…

(1) The Department of Highways is authorized to construct fills, made necessary by road construction, so that such will impound water. (2) The Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and the Department of Highways shall decide whether the creation of a lake in any one (1) parti…

Cancellation or revocation of license. No person shall violate any law or regulations relating to licensed shooting preserves, or licensed hunting preserves. Any owner or operator who permits any person to hunt on his or her licensed shooting preserve without the required license…