KRS § 150.170 — KY Code / Title XII / Chapter 150 / Section 150.170
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 -- Exemption from live-fire hunter education course component for military or peace officers
Status: in_force

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 -- Exemption from live-fire hunter education course

component for military or peace officers.

(1) Except as provided in the following subsections of this section, and subject to

administrative regulations promulgated under this chapter, no person, resident, or

nonresident shall do any act authorized by any kind of license or permit or assist in

any way any person in doing any act provided for in this chapter with respect to

wildlife unless he or she holds the kind of license or permit, resident or nonresident,

that authorizes the act. It shall be the specific purpose of this chapter to prohibit the

taking or pursuing of any wildlife, protected or unprotected, or the fishing in any

stream or body of water whether public or private, without first procuring the

license provided for in KRS 150.175, except to the extent as may be otherwise

provided in this section.

(2) A person under sixteen (16) years of age may, without a sport fishing license, take

fish by angling, or take minnows by the use of a minnow seine, minnow trap, or dip

net.

(3) A person under twelve (12) years of age shall be exempt from being required to

obtain a sport hunting or sport trapping license as required by this chapter.

(4) The resident owner of farmlands or his or her spouse or dependent children shall,

without procuring any sport hunting or sport fishing licenses, have the right to take

fish or hunt during the open season, except trapping, on farmlands of which they are

bona fide owners. Tenants or their dependent children residing upon these

farmlands shall have the same privilege.

(5) Residents or nonresidents observing and participating in field trials, training

exercises, or other competitions as authorized by the department may observe and

participate without obtaining a hunting or guide's license so long as game is not

taken.

(6) Any resident serviceman on furlough of more than three (3) days in this state may,

without any Kentucky sport hunting or sport fishing licenses, do any act authorized

by the licenses, but while so doing he or she shall carry on his or her person proper

identification and papers showing his or her furlough status.

(7) Landowners, their spouses or dependent children, or their designee who must be

approved by the commissioner, who kill or trap on their lands any wildlife causing

damage to the lands or any personal property situated thereon shall not be required

to have a hunting or trapping license and may do so during periods other than the

open season for the particular species without a tag and dispose of the carcass on-

site. Tenants, their spouses, their dependent children, or other persons approved by

the commissioner, shall also have the same privilege. Upon destruction of any

wildlife by the above-specified individuals, the act shall be reported to a game

warden within twenty-four (24) hours of the kill. Individuals wishing to transport

the carcass from the property upon which it was killed shall contact personnel of the

department to request a disposal tag or other authorization. Inedible parts from

wildlife taken under the authorization of this section shall not be utilized for any

purpose and shall be destroyed or left afield. The department shall promulgate

administrative regulations establishing procedures for the designee appointment

process, including request and approval deadlines.

(8) If a reciprocal agreement is entered into by the commissioner, with the approval of

the commission, and promulgated as an administrative regulation by the department

and similar action is taken by the appropriate authority in Missouri, Tennessee,

Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, or Illinois, persons holding a resident or

nonresident fishing or a resident or nonresident hunting license issued in these

states shall be permitted to perform the acts authorized by the license upon certain

contiguous waters and land areas adjacent to the common boundaries of the above-

mentioned states and the State of Kentucky. A resident of the State of Kentucky

shall purchase a proper Kentucky license to conform with the reciprocal agreement.

(9) Any member of the Kentucky Army or Air National Guard, active duty or Reserve

Component, in any branch in the United States Armed Forces that is based in the

Commonwealth of Kentucky, shall have the right to take fish or hunt on any

military property belonging to the Commonwealth without procuring any sport

hunting or sport fishing license.

(10) A person not otherwise exempted from hunter safety education or from procuring

any sport hunting or sport fishing license shall be exempt from the department-

sanctioned live-fire exercise component of the hunter education course requirement

if he or she:

(a) Is a current member of the Armed Forces of the United States;

(b) Has served in the Armed Forces of the United States and was discharged or

released therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable; or

(c) Is a peace officer certified pursuant to KRS 15.380 to 15.404.