During the closed season, no one is allowed to take a turtle home or away from its habitat. However, this should not deter you away from helping a turtle across a dangerous road, if safe conditions allow you to do so. One bit of advice is to always move the turtles across the road in the direction they are headed. If you do not, the turtle will just attempt to cross the road again. As described earlier, painted turtles can live in a variety of environments, so habitat loss is not a major concern at the moment.
Humans are the adult turtles largest predator.
This creates some concern with predation. Handbook of Turtles . Cornell University Press. Ithaca, New York. Ernst, Carl H., and Roger W. Barbour.