HB0200 - Game and fish-trapping license-4.
2001 |
State of Wyoming |
01LSO-0376 |
HOUSE BILL NO. HB0200
Game and fish-trapping license-4.
Sponsored by: Representative(s) Law, Hageman, Huckfeldt,
Landon, McGraw and
Nelson and Senator(s)
Harris and Kinnison
A BILL
for
1 AN ACT relating to game
and fish; modifying tagging and
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trapping requirements imposed upon licensed traps and
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snares; defining terms; granting rulemaking authority;
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increasing penalties; and providing for an effective date.
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6 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
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8 Section
1. W.S.
23-2-303(a)(intro), (d) and (e) is
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amended to read:
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11 23-2-303. Trapping licenses; tagging;
traps and
12 snares; penalty; confiscation.
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14 (a) Any person who has secured the approval of the 15
game
warden in his district may, in the discretion of the
16 department upon application and the payment
of the proper
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1
fee, receive a license to trap any furbearing animal. The
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department shall issue a trapping license to a nonresident
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only if his state issues licenses to Wyoming residents to
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trap the same species for which residents of that state may
5 be
licensed to trap in that state. Any nonresident applying
6 for
a Wyoming trapping license shall furnish:
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8 (d) All steel leg hold traps and
snares used for
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furbearing or predatory animals shall have
metal tags 10
affixed thereto
bearing be permanently marked or tagged
11 with
the name and address of the owner or the
12 identification
number assigned to the owner by the
13 department. Any
identification number attached to a trap or
14 snare pursuant to
this subsection is solely for the use of
15 the department or
appropriate law enforcement officers and
16 is not a public
record for purposes of W.S. 16-4-201
17 through 16-4-205.
A trap or snare licensed under this
18 section shall not
be set within thirty (30) feet of any
19 exposed bait or
carcass over five (5) pounds in weight. As
20 used in this
subsection, "exposed bait or carcass" means
21 the meat or
viscera of any part of a mammal, bird or fish,
22 excluding dried
bones. In addition, a snare licensed under
23 this section
shall be equipped with a break-away locking
24 device that
releases at two hundred ninety-five (295)
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1 pounds of pressure or less and a snare loop not to exceed
2 twelve (12) inches in diameter.
All steel leg hold traps
3 excluding snares and quick kill body grip traps as defined
4 by commission rule and regulation, shall be
checked by the
5 owner
at least once during each seventy-two (72) hour
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period from the time the traps were set.
excluding traps 7
set underwater Quick
kill body grip traps shall be checked
8 by the owner not less than once each seven (7) day period
9 from the time the traps were set. All wildlife caught in
10 any trap or snare
shall upon discovery, be removed
11 immediately by
the owner. Violation of this
subsection
12 constitutes an
eleventh a ninth degree
misdemeanor.
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14 (e) Any steel leg hold trap or
snare found in the
15 field not bearing the name and address of
the owner of the
16 trap shall or snare or the identification number assigned
17 by the department
to the owner of the trap or snare may be
18 confiscated by any employee of the
department.
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20 Section 2. This act is effective July 1, 2001.
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22 (END)
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