2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 150 - FISH AND WILDLIFE RESOURCES 150.180 Buying, selling, or transporting protected wildlife, mussels and fishes, raw fur, or processed wildlife.
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150.180 Buying, selling, or transporting protected wildlife, mussels and
fishes, raw fur, or processed wildlife.
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Except as otherwise provided for in this chapter, and subject to regulations
adopted under this chapter, no person, for himself or as the agent or employee
of another shall buy, or sell, or attempt to buy, or sell, barter, exchange, or
trade, or have in possession for the purpose of selling, bartering, or trading any
protected wildlife or part thereof, raw fur or processed wildlife, no matter where
or when caught or killed, whether caught or killed in this state or in any other
state or other country.
Mussels and fishes, other than sport fishes as designated by departmental
regulations, and all fishes, regardless of species, raised by licensed
propagation permittees may be bought, sold, and transported, if in legal
possession.
Raw furs, if in legal possession, may be sold, transported, or shipped, by a
licensed trapper or licensed hunter to a licensed fur buyer (resident or
nonresident), and by a licensed fur buyer to a licensed fur processor or to
another fur buyer if in legal possession. A fur processor may hold raw furs or
sell to another licensed fur processor at any time.
Subject to regulations adopted under this chapter, a person who has been
issued a license under this chapter and who has the license on his person may
transport anywhere as a part of his personal baggage any protected wildlife
legally taken by him under such license, not in excess of the number that the
law or regulation permits him to have in possession at any one (1) time.
A person who has legally taken any protected wildlife in another state and who
has in his possession the license which authorizes such taking may, if the
same be dead, transport the same in this state, as part of his personal
baggage at any time during the open season for the particular species in the
state in which taken or within ten (10) days after the close of such season. Any
person may ship dead game or dead fish so taken subject to the provisions of
the laws of the state in which the same was taken and the laws and regulations
of the United States relating thereto.
No person shall import or transport into the State of Kentucky or receive
shipment in the state from without the state, any live fish or wildlife without first
procuring from the department a written fish transportation permit or wildlife
transportation permit. If it is determined upon inspection that such fish or
wildlife would not constitute a menace to the state and are free from disease
and other undesirable physical characteristics, the commissioner shall issue a
permit for a fee to be determined by the Fish and Wildlife Commission by
administrative regulation, pursuant to KRS Chapter 13A. A fish transportation
permit shall be valid for one (1) year from the date of issuance, and a wildlife
transportation permit shall be valid for specific dates as indicated on the permit.
No person may at any time stock any species of fish secured from any source
into the public waters of the Commonwealth without first securing a permit from
the commissioner.
This section shall not in any way interfere with the transportation of any fish or
wildlife by authorized personnel of the department.
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Federal and state regulations shall govern the transportation of all migratory
wild birds.
Effective:July 12, 2006
History: Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 127, sec. 4, effective July 12, 2006. -Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 353, sec. 3, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended
1988 Ky. Acts ch. 365, sec. 4, effective July 15, 1988. -- Amended 1978 Ky.
Acts ch. 178, sec. 5, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 38,
sec. 9. -- Amended 1956 Ky. Acts ch. 115, sec. 12. -- Amended 1952 Ky. Acts
ch. 200, sec. 27. -- Amended 1948 Ky. Acts ch. 77, sec. 4; and ch. 78, sec. 9. -Amended 1946 Ky. Acts ch. 84, sec. 5. -- Amended 1944 Ky. Acts ch. 124,
sec. 3. -- Amended 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 68, sec. 18. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts
ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 1893d-11,
1954d-14.
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