Ohio Administrative Code › Title 1501:31 - Division of Wildlife › Chapter 1501:31-29 - Hunter Safety and Trapper Education Courses › Section 1501:31-29-02 - Trapper education course student and instructor regulations

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
First-time fur taker permit buyers wanting to trap furbearing
				animals shall complete a trapper education course or other course of
				instruction as prescribed by the division of wildlife. The approved courses of
				instruction, shall include, but not be limited to, the subject matter required
				in section 1533.111 of the Revised Code.
				The official course, or courses of instruction, shall be approved by the chief
				of the division of wildlife.
(A)
			 Completion of an approved course of instruction shall include passing of an
			 examination and receiving a certificate of completion prescribed by the chief
			 of the division of wildlife.
(B)
			 Any qualified division employee plus volunteer instructors may give trapper
			 education courses. Said volunteer instructors must be eighteen years of age or
			 older with at least three years of experience trapping furbearing animals and
			 shall have successfully completed a Ohio trapping education course prescribed
			 by the chief of the division of wildlife. In addition to the course
			 requirements in paragraph (A) of this rule, an instructor shall complete
			 courses on teaching techniques, fundamentals, and methods of instruction.
			 Completion of the Ohio trapper education instructor course shall include the
			 passing of an examination and receiving a trapper education instructor
			 certification card prescribed by the chief of the division of wildlife. The
			 chief of the division of wildlife shall establish minimum requirements and
			 procedures for the purpose of renewing instructor certification cards.
			 Instructor certification may be withheld or withdrawn at the discretion of the
			 chief.
(C) Persons possessing and
			 producing a legally obtained trapper education card which identifies the owner
			 and indicates the owner has completed a trapping education course administered
			 by another state or province will be considered to have had equivalent training
			 and may purchase a fur taker permit upon presenting such card to an issuing
			 agent.
(D) In lieu of presenting a
			 previously purchased trapping permit, fur taker permit, or license or evidence
			 of satisfactorily completing an approved trapper education course, persons who
			 are twenty-one years of age or older may make application for and be issued fur
			 taker permit after stating on the application that he is twenty-one years of
			 age or older and has held a previous trapping permit, fur taker permit, or
			 license.
(E) No person shall issue
			 or give a trapper certificate of competency to any person who has not passed a
			 division trapper education course. No person shall obtain, use or attempt to
			 use a division of wildlife trapper certificate without first completing an
			 authorized division of wildlife trapper education course. Instructors will
			 report the names and addresses of passing students to the division immediately
			 after each course. The division will be responsible for maintaining records of
			 students certified and issuing duplicate cards.
(F) All definitions set forth in rule
			 1501:31-1-02
			 of the Administrative Code shall apply to this rule.
Five Year Review (FYR) Dates:
				07/19/2016 and
				07/19/2021
Promulgated
				Under: 119.03
Statutory
				Authority: 1533.111
Rule
				Amplifies: 1533.111
Prior
				Effective Dates: 06/01/1979, 06/01/1981, 05/31/1983, 05/31/1984, 04/20/1987,
				09/15/1987, 06/01/1988, 11/20/1996