Title XII, Conservation and State Development
16 chapters · 1,076 sections in this title.
KRS § 150.183 Importing, transporting or possessing endangered species of wildlife
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(1) No person shall import, transport, possess for resale or sell any endangered species of wildlife, the hides, skins, or other parts thereof, or any article made in whole or in part from the skin, hide, or other parts of any species of wildlife designated as an endangered speci…
KRS § 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
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transporting wild or feral pig or boar prohibited -- Accidental escape of livestock exempted. (1) No person shall release a hog or pig from the family Suidae into the wild. (2) No person shall import, possess, or transport in Kentucky any wild or feral pig, Eurasian or Russian bo…
KRS § 150.190 Outfitter license or guide's license
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(1) Any applicant for an outfitter license or guide's license shall be required to present proof to the satisfaction of the commissioner that he is qualified to act as a guide or outfitter, as prescribed by administrative regulations of the department. (2) Any applicant for a fur…
KRS § 150.195 Design, issuance, and distribution of licenses and permits -- Administrative regulations
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regulations. (1) The department shall by administrative regulation provide for the control of the design, issuance, distribution, and other matters relating to all licenses and permits issued by the department. (2) The department shall name each county clerk not granted an exempt…
KRS § 150.225 Prescription of license, permit, and registration fees -- Fiduciary capacity of person who collects, receives, possesses, or manages fees
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of person who collects, receives, possesses, or manages fees. (1) The Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources shall, by its commission and through administrative regulation promulgated in accordance with KRS Chapter 13A, prescribe reasonable fees for the licenses, permits, and …
KRS § 150.235 License or permit required -- To be carried on person -- Nonresidents -- Effect of revocation or suspension of license or permit
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Effect of revocation or suspension of license or permit. (1) No person shall perform any act authorized to be performed by any of the various licenses or permits provided for in this chapter without first procuring the type of license which authorizes the performance of the act a…
KRS § 150.236 Effect of revocation or suspension of license by another jurisdiction in United States or Canada
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United States or Canada. A person whose privilege to hunt or fish has been suspended or revoked by any jurisdiction within the United States or Canada shall not purchase or possess a license to hunt or fish, nor shall that person perform any act permitted by the license in Kentuc…
KRS § 150.238 Reciprocal agreements with other states relating to violations of hunting and fishing laws -- Administrative regulations
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and fishing laws -- Administrative regulations. (1) The department may enter into reciprocal agreements with one (1) or more states relating to violations of hunting and fishing laws. Upon entering into such an agreement, the department shall promulgate an administrative regulati…
KRS § 150.240 Contract for game refuge -- Public or commercial shooting areas
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(1) The commissioner, with the approval of the commission, may contract with any landowner of the state, for a specified term of years, to set aside and maintain land as a game refuge. Any such contracts may be recorded in the county clerk's office of the county in which the land…
KRS § 150.250 Contract for wildlife preservation or propagation
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The department, with the approval of the commission, may enter into any contract with the United States government, or any department or agency thereof, or with any individual in regard to the preservation, protection and propagation of wildlife which it may deem to the advantage…
KRS § 150.255 Wetland or stream compensatory mitigation projects -- Mitigation fund -- Purposes
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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…
KRS § 150.260 Wildlife restoration in cooperation with federal government
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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 …
KRS § 150.270 Consent to acquisition by United States of migratory bird reservations
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(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…
KRS § 150.275 Permit to take and transport wildlife for commercial nuisance wildlife control, scientific, or educational purposes -- Fees to be set by administrative regulation
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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…
KRS § 150.280 Propagation and holding of protected wildlife -- Permits -- Revocation for violation of state or federal law
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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…
KRS § 150.290 Sale and transportation of wildlife by breeders
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(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…
KRS § 150.300 Poaching -- Destroying or defacing signs and notices
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(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…
KRS § 150.305 Possession of wildlife or raw fur out of season -- Inspection of commercial frozen food lockers
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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…
KRS § 150.320 Birds not protected -- Nests and eggs
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(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…
KRS § 150.330 Migratory birds -- Waterfowl
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(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…
KRS § 150.340 Bag and creel limits -- Limit on possession -- Migratory birds
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(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…
KRS § 150.355 Ferrets
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(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…
KRS § 150.360 Restrictions on taking of wildlife -- Discharge of weapon across public roadway prohibited
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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…
KRS § 150.361 Taking game with a firearm during bow season prohibited
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(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 …
KRS § 150.362 Prohibition against taking wildlife by person under influence of alcohol or controlled substance
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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…
KRS § 150.363 Computer-assisted remote hunting unlawful -- Citizens with disabilities
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(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…
KRS § 150.365 Fire, explosives, electric devices, gas, smoke to take wildlife prohibited
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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…
KRS § 150.370 Open season for wildlife -- Exceptions
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(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 …
KRS § 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 -- Taking of anterless deer
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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…
KRS § 150.395 Prohibition against use of artificial light
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(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…
KRS § 150.399 Traps illegally set or used -- Seizure or treatment as contraband
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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…
KRS § 150.400 Traps -- Approval -- Prohibition -- New design
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(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…
KRS § 150.410 Tagging of traps -- Visiting trap line -- Protection of domestic animals
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(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…
KRS § 150.411 Taxidermist's records -- Mounting
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(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 …
KRS § 150.4111 Sale of legally taken wildlife
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(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…
KRS § 150.4112 Administrative regulations to allow resident nonprofit 501(c)(3) institution to sell donated mounted wildlife specimen
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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 …
KRS § 150.4113 Administrative regulations to allow sale and purchase of mounted wildlife specimens -- Recording of sales
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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…
KRS § 150.412 Restriction on commercial guide's participation in taking of wildlife or fish while providing guide services
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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…
KRS § 150.415 Fur buyer -- Receipts for purchases
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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 …
KRS § 150.416 Fur processor -- Receipts and inventory
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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…
KRS § 150.417 Nonresident accompanying resident fur buyer -- Presumption from
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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…
KRS § 150.425 Bounty on beaver
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(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 …
KRS § 150.440 Open season and creel limits for rough fish
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(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.
KRS § 150.445 Fish not to be taken other than by pole and line near dams
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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.
KRS § 150.450 Use, operation, and possession of certain fishing gear
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(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…
KRS § 150.460 Use of certain substances and devices in public waters prohibited -- Use of explosives and firearms prohibited
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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…
KRS § 150.470 Creel and size limits for fish
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(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…
KRS § 150.485 Live fish and bait dealers
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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.
KRS § 150.520 Department may regulate musseling
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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 …
KRS § 150.525 License for buying mussel shells or mussels in the shell
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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.