Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/12/title12sec12252.html
Timestamp: 2019-08-18 06:52:28
Document Index: 586051826

Matched Legal Cases: ['§12252', '§12252', '§12251', '§12253', '§12252', '§2', '§9', '§2', '§9', '§31', '§2', '§9', '§31', '§214', '§422', '§9', '§31']

Title 12, §12252: Unlawful trapping methods
§12252 MS-Word
§12251
§12253
§12252. Unlawful trapping methods
1. Unlawfully rigging traps. A person may not use auxiliary teeth on any leg-hold trap set on land.
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 medicinal, 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 [2015, c. 301, §31 (AMD).]
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).]
[ 2015, c. 301, §31 (AMD) .]
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.
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) .]
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). 2015, c. 301, §31 (AMD).