Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 301 - TOURISM, ARTS AND HERITAGE CABINET - DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE RESOURCES › Chapter 2 - Game › Section 301 KAR 2:251 - Hunting and trapping seasons and limits for furbearers

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO:
				KRS
				150.170,
				150.180,
				150.370,
				150.399,
				150.415,
				150.416,
				150.990,
				150.995
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
				KRS
				150.025(1) authorizes the
				department to promulgate administrative regulations to establish open seasons
				for the taking of wildlife, to regulate bag limits and methods of take, and to
				make these requirements apply to a limited area.
				KRS
				150.175(7), (9) authorizes
				the department to issue licenses, permits, and tags for hunting and trapping.
				KRS
				150.360 requires restrictions on the taking
				of wildlife and authorizes the department to promulgate administrative
				regulations establishing the requirements for hunting coyotes at night.
				KRS
				150.400 authorizes the department to
				establish the types of traps that can legally be used by trappers.
				KRS
				150.410 authorizes the department to regulate
				trap tags, trap visitation, and trap placement to protect domestic animals.
				This administrative regulation establishes seasons, bag limits, legal methods
				of take, and checking and recording requirements for hunting and trapping
				furbearers.
Section 1. Definitions.
(1) "Body-gripping trap" means a commercially
			 manufactured spring-loaded trap designed to kill an animal upon
			 capture.
(2) "Dry land set" means a
			 trap that is placed so that no portion of the trap touches the water of a
			 river, stream, pond, lake, wetland, or other water course.
(3) "Foothold trap" means a commercially
			 manufactured spring-loaded trap with smooth, metallic or rubber soft-catch jaws
			 that close upon an animal's foot.
(4) "Furbearer" means mink, muskrat, beaver,
			 raccoon, opossum, gray fox, red fox, least weasel, long-tailed weasel, river
			 otter, bobcat, coyote, or striped skunk.
(5) "Hunter" means a person legally taking
			 furbearers by means other than trapping.
(6) "Otter Zone 1" means the following
			 counties: Anderson, Ballard, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Bracken, Breckinridge,
			 Bullitt, Caldwell, Calloway, Campbell, Carlisle, Carroll, Christian,
			 Crittenden, Daviess, Fayette, Fleming, Franklin, Fulton, Gallatin, Grant,
			 Graves, Grayson, Hancock, Hardin, Harrison, Henderson, Henry, Hickman, Hopkins,
			 Jefferson, Kenton, Larue, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall, Mason, McCracken, McLean,
			 Meade, Muhlenberg, Nelson, Nicholas, Ohio, Oldham, Owen, Pendleton, Robertson,
			 Rowan, Scott, Shelby, Spencer, Trigg, Trimble, Union, Webster, and
			 Woodford.
(7) "Otter Zone 2" means
			 all Kentucky counties not included in subsection (6) of this section.
(8) "Snare" means a wire, cable, or string
			 with a knot, loop, or a single piece closing device, the deployment of which is
			 or is not spring-assisted, but any spring-assisted device is not for the
			 purpose of applying tension to the closing device.
(9) "Squaller" means a hand-operated,
			 mouth-operated, or electronic call capable of mimicking the vocalizations of
			 furbearers.
(10) "Trap" means a
			 body-gripping trap, box trap, deadfall, foothold trap, snare, or wire cage trap
			 used to catch furbearers, in the set or unset position.
(11) "Water set" means a trap placed in the
			 water of a river, stream, pond, lake, wetland, or other water course so that a
			 portion of the trap body is underwater.
(12) "Youth" means a person under the age of
			 sixteen (16) by the date of the hunt or the trapping date.