2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 150 - FISH AND WILDLIFE RESOURCES 150.090 Conservation officers, peace officers, and other persons appointed by the commissioner to enforce chapter -- Authority of such officers and persons.
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150.090 Conservation officers, peace officers, and other persons appointed
by the commissioner to enforce chapter -- Authority of such officers and
persons.
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Conservation officers appointed by the commissioner shall have full powers as
peace officers for the enforcement of all of the laws of the Commonwealth,
except that they shall not enforce laws other than this chapter and the
administrative regulations issued thereunder or to serve process unless so
directed by the commissioner in life threatening situations or when assistance
is requested by another law enforcement agency.
The commissioner may appoint other persons to enforce only the provisions of
this chapter and the administrative regulations issued thereunder. Such
persons shall have the power to make arrests or issue citations only for
violations of this chapter and the administrative regulations issued thereunder.
All other peace officers and their deputies shall enforce the provisions of this
chapter and the administrative regulations issued thereunder.
All persons charged with the enforcement of this chapter and the administrative
regulations issued thereunder shall have the right to go upon the land of any
person or persons whether private or public for the purpose of conducting
research or investigation of game or fish or their habitat conditions or engage in
restocking game or fish or in any type of work involved in or incident to game
and fish restoration projects or their enforcement or in the enforcement of laws
or orders of the department relating to game or fish, while in the normal, lawful
and peaceful pursuit of such investigation or work or enforcement, may enter
upon, cross over, be upon, and remain upon privately owned lands for such
purposes, and shall not be subject to arrest for trespass while so engaged or
for such cause thereafter. They may arrest on sight, without warrant, any
person detected by them in the act of violating any of the provisions of this
chapter. They shall have the same rights as sheriffs to require aid in arresting
with or without process any person found by them violating any of the
provisions of this chapter and may seize without process anything declared by
this chapter to be contraband. No liability shall be incurred by any person
charged or directed in the enforcement of this chapter.
Conservation officers and other officers charged with the enforcement of this
chapter, shall have the authority to call for and inspect the license or tag, bag
or creel of any person engaged in any activity for the performance of which a
license is required under this chapter, and shall also have the authority to take
proper identification of any person, or hunter, or fisherman who is actually
engaged in any of these activities, and to call for and inspect any and all
firearms and any other device that may be used in taking wildlife and is in the
possession of any person so engaged.
No person shall resist, obstruct, interfere with or threaten or attempt to
intimidate or in any other manner interfere with any officer in the discharge of
his duties under the provisions of this chapter. This subsection shall not apply
to a criminal homicide or an assault upon such officer. An assault upon such
officer shall be deemed an offense under KRS Chapter 507 or 508, as
appropriate.
Effective:July 15, 1986
History: Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 424, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1986. -Amended 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 38, sec. 3 -- Amended 1956 Ky. Acts ch. 115,
sec. 7 -- Amended 1952 Ky. Acts ch. 200, sec. 14 -- Amended 1942 Ky. Acts
ch. 68, sec. 9 -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1,
1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1954d-9.
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