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148.029 Recreation areas designated wildlife sanctuaries -- Wildlife protected -Permits for scientific collecting -- Duties of department.
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All areas controlled by the Department of Parks and designated as camping, hiking,
or other family-oriented recreation areas are designated wildlife sanctuaries for the
purpose of affording protection to the wildlife thereon as natural, integrated,
interrelated, ecological communities.
No unauthorized person shall enter a wildlife sanctuary and take, damage, injure,
kill, destroy, or unduly disturb the wildlife therein except as provided in this
section.
The department may issue to any person a permit for the scientific collection of
wildlife provided the applicant for such permit holds a current state scientific
collecting permit issued by the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources.
This section does not apply to fish taken pursuant to KRS Chapter 150 and all rules
and regulations promulgated by the Department of Parks and the Department of
Fish and Wildlife Resources.
The department may authorize the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to
administer a wildlife management plan that may include the implementation of any
management method provided in KRS Chapter 150 in the course of operating and
administering the parks; and in so doing shall consider the ecological impact on the
sanctuary as a whole.
Effective: July 14, 2000
History: Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 87, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2000. -- Created
1972 Ky. Acts ch. 189, sec. 2(1) to (5).
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