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Kentucky Chapter 150 — Fish and Wildlife Resources

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  • KRS 150.010— Definitions for chapter
  • KRS 150.015— Purpose of 1952 Act amending game and fish laws -- Policy of state as to wildlife -- Liberal construction -- Promotion of hunger relief through wildlife management and conservation
  • KRS 150.018— Repealed, 1976
  • KRS 150.020— Repealed, 1944
  • KRS 150.021— Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources -- Administrative attachment to Tourism, Arts, and Heritage Cabinet -- Assessment of fee for debt service on radio system capital project -- Department not subject to reorganization
  • KRS 150.022— Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission -- Appointment processes and conditions -- Definition of "sportsman."
  • KRS 150.023— Meetings and functions of commission
  • KRS 150.024— Power to acquire property -- Condemnation
  • KRS 150.025— Power of department to make administrative regulations as to game and fish, including seasons and limits -- Inclusion of administrative regulations on department's website
  • KRS 150.026— Repealed, 1966
  • KRS 150.027— Hearing required before promulgation, amendment, or repeal of administrative regulations affecting property owners or occupants of property adjacent to a lake or other real property owned or controlled by the department
  • KRS 150.028— Required administrative regulations
  • KRS 150.030— Repealed, 1944
  • KRS 150.040— Repealed, 1944
  • KRS 150.050— Repealed, 1944
  • KRS 150.060— Repealed, 1944
  • KRS 150.061— Commissioner -- Appointment -- Qualifications -- Term -- Removal -- Compensation -- Oath -- Bond -- Duties -- Annual report -- Authority to appoint additional employees if grant funds available
  • KRS 150.065— Temporary employees
  • KRS 150.070— Repealed, 1944
  • KRS 150.071— Repealed, 1960
  • KRS 150.072— Repealed, 1960
  • KRS 150.080— Repealed, 1960
  • KRS 150.081— Political activity forbidden
  • KRS 150.083— Repealed, 1960
  • KRS 150.090— Commissioner's power and duty to appoint all game wardens considered to be necessary for the efficient administration of the department -- Each game warden is individually vested with the powers of a peace officer in all parts of the state -- Employment contract permitted
  • KRS 150.091— Repealed, 2017
  • KRS 150.092— Consent requirement for entry upon lands of another person -- Private lands incentive programs -- Arrest and citation authority
  • KRS 150.095— Game wardens may bear arms
  • KRS 150.097— Indemnification by the Commonwealth of game warden who is sued in his or her individual capacity and personally suffers financial loss -- Indemnification contingent upon findings that the act or omission which resulted in liability was lawful and proper and within the officer's scope and course of employment -- Indemnification does not abrogate, limit, or constitute a waiver of any privilege, immunity, or matter of defense otherwise available to the game warden
  • KRS 150.100— Execution of process by commissioner, department personnel and persons appointed by commissioner
  • KRS 150.105— Destruction or control of animals causing damage
  • KRS 150.110— Enforcement of law as to mussels
  • KRS 150.120— Seizure and sale of contraband
  • KRS 150.130— County and Commonwealth's attorneys to enforce laws and regulations
  • KRS 150.140— Report and payment of moneys by circuit clerk
  • KRS 150.150— Game and fish fund -- Mussel beds -- Funds for hunger relief -- Accounting and report -- Contribution to Becoming an Outdoors-Woman Program
  • KRS 150.152— Report of audit of department by Auditor of Public Accounts
  • KRS 150.160— Disposition of fines
  • KRS 150.165— Nongame fish and wildlife fund
  • KRS 150.170— Requirement of hunting, fishing, trapping, or guide's license -- Exceptions -- Killing of wildlife causing damage -- Reporting requirements -- Reciprocity with adjoining states -- Exception for active duty or reserve members on military property -- Exemption from live-fire hunter education course component for military or peace officers
  • KRS 150.172— Possession and use of firearm for self-defense and defense of others while hunting or trapping -- Exceptions -- Administrative regulations
  • KRS 150.175— Kinds of licenses and tags -- Multiyear licenses or permits
  • KRS 150.176— Repealed, 1986
  • KRS 150.177— Special permit for incorporated nonprofit wildlife conservation organization
  • KRS 150.178— Cooperator permits -- Administrative regulations
  • KRS 150.179— Waiver of license requirement and discounting of licenses or permits for event supporting a recreational activity -- Free-fishing weekend
  • KRS 150.180— Buying, selling, or transporting protected wildlife, mussels and fishes, raw fur, or processed wildlife
  • KRS 150.183— Importing, transporting or possessing endangered species of wildlife
  • KRS 150.185— Repealed, 1968
  • KRS 150.186— Release of hog or pig into the wild prohibited -- Importing, possessing, or transporting wild or feral pig or boar prohibited -- Accidental escape of livestock exempted
  • KRS 150.190— Outfitter license or guide's license
  • KRS 150.195— Design, issuance, and distribution of licenses and permits -- Administrative regulations
  • KRS 150.200— Repealed, 1994
  • KRS 150.210— Repealed, 1994
  • KRS 150.220— Repealed, 1958
  • KRS 150.221— Repealed, 1956
  • KRS 150.225— Prescription of license, permit, and registration fees -- Fiduciary capacity of person who collects, receives, possesses, or manages fees
  • KRS 150.230— Repealed, 1994
  • KRS 150.235— License or permit required -- To be carried on person -- Nonresidents -- Effect of revocation or suspension of license or permit
  • KRS 150.236— Effect of revocation or suspension of license by another jurisdiction in United States or Canada
  • KRS 150.237— Repealed, 1990
  • KRS 150.238— Reciprocal agreements with other states relating to violations of hunting and fishing laws -- Administrative regulations
  • KRS 150.240— Contract for game refuge -- Public or commercial shooting areas
  • KRS 150.0241— Access to and use of commission-managed lands for hunting -- Duties of commission and other state agencies -- Reports
  • KRS 150.0242— Department procurements -- Applicability of Executive Branch Code of Ethics -- Administrative regulations
  • KRS 150.250— Contract for wildlife preservation or propagation
  • KRS 150.255— Wetland or stream compensatory mitigation projects -- Mitigation fund -- Purposes
  • KRS 150.260— Wildlife restoration in cooperation with federal government
  • KRS 150.265— Repealed, 1952
  • KRS 150.270— Consent to acquisition by United States of migratory bird reservations
  • KRS 150.275— Permit to take and transport wildlife for commercial nuisance wildlife control, scientific, or educational purposes -- Fees to be set by administrative regulation
  • KRS 150.280— Propagation and holding of protected wildlife -- Permits -- Revocation for violation of state or federal law
  • KRS 150.290— Sale and transportation of wildlife by breeders
  • KRS 150.300— Poaching -- Destroying or defacing signs and notices
  • KRS 150.305— Possession of wildlife or raw fur out of season -- Inspection of commercial frozen food lockers
  • KRS 150.310— Repealed, 1968
  • KRS 150.320— Birds not protected -- Nests and eggs
  • KRS 150.330— Migratory birds -- Waterfowl
  • KRS 150.340— Bag and creel limits -- Limit on possession -- Migratory birds
  • KRS 150.350— Repealed, 1944
  • KRS 150.355— Ferrets
  • KRS 150.360— Restrictions on taking of wildlife -- Discharge of weapon across public roadway prohibited
  • KRS 150.361— Taking game with a firearm during bow season prohibited
  • KRS 150.362— Prohibition against taking wildlife by person under influence of alcohol or controlled substance
  • KRS 150.363— Computer-assisted remote hunting unlawful -- Citizens with disabilities
  • KRS 150.365— Fire, explosives, electric devices, gas, smoke to take wildlife prohibited
  • KRS 150.370— Open season for wildlife -- Exceptions
  • KRS 150.380— Repealed, 1968
  • KRS 150.390— Restrictions on hunting wild elk, deer, wild turkey, or bear -- Depredation permits -- Administrative regulations -- Methods to reduce deer and elk populations that threaten agriculture or health and human safety
  • KRS 150.395— Prohibition against use of artificial light
  • KRS 150.398— Repealed, 1952
  • KRS 150.399— Traps illegally set or used -- Seizure or treatment as contraband
  • KRS 150.400— Traps -- Approval -- Prohibition -- New design
  • KRS 150.410— Tagging of traps -- Visiting trap line -- Protection of domestic animals
  • KRS 150.411— Taxidermist's records -- Mounting
  • KRS 150.412— Restriction on commercial guide's participation in taking of wildlife or fish while providing guide services
  • KRS 150.415— Fur buyer -- Receipts for purchases
  • KRS 150.416— Fur processor -- Receipts and inventory
  • KRS 150.417— Nonresident accompanying resident fur buyer -- Presumption from
  • KRS 150.420— Repealed, 1946
  • KRS 150.425— Bounty on beaver
  • KRS 150.430— Repealed, 1946
  • KRS 150.440— Open season and creel limits for rough fish
  • KRS 150.445— Fish not to be taken other than by pole and line near dams
  • KRS 150.450— Use, operation, and possession of certain fishing gear
  • KRS 150.460— Use of certain substances and devices in public waters prohibited -- Use of explosives and firearms prohibited
  • KRS 150.470— Creel and size limits for fish
  • KRS 150.480— Repealed, 1952
  • KRS 150.485— Live fish and bait dealers
  • KRS 150.490— Repealed, 1946
  • KRS 150.500— Repealed, 1968
  • KRS 150.510— Repealed, 1994
  • KRS 150.520— Department may regulate musseling
  • KRS 150.525— License for buying mussel shells or mussels in the shell
  • KRS 150.530— Repealed, 1942
  • KRS 150.540— Repealed, 1942
  • KRS 150.550— Repealed, 1942
  • KRS 150.560— Repealed, 1942
  • KRS 150.570— Repealed, 1942
  • KRS 150.580— Repealed, 1942
  • KRS 150.590— Repealed, 1968
  • KRS 150.600— Regulation of the taking of waterfowl
  • KRS 150.603— Migratory bird/waterfowl permit required -- Exceptions -- Use of revenue generated by sale of migratory bird/waterfowl permit
  • KRS 150.605— Repealed, 2013
  • KRS 150.610— Issuance of revenue bonds for purpose of establishing public shooting areas, wildlife refuges, public fishing lakes or other projects -- Pledging of revenue -- Liens
  • KRS 150.620— Acquisition of lands for establishment and maintenance of public shooting, fishing, and other recreational areas -- Operation of facilities and lands -- Subleasing of land
  • KRS 150.625— Highway construction lakes
  • KRS 150.630— Violations of law pertaining to shooting or hunting preserves -- Cancellation or revocation of license
  • KRS 150.640— Acts of depredation prohibited while hunting, fishing or trapping -- Domestic livestock roaming on department lands prohibited
  • KRS 150.645— Liability of landowner consenting to hunting, fishing, and other outdoor activities on premises -- Claims for property damage by state employees participating in wildlife management practices
  • KRS 150.650— Repealed, 1992
  • KRS 150.660— Establishment of pay lakes, authority of commissioner concerning -- Stocking requirement -- Permits -- Revocation of license
  • KRS 150.670— Repealed, 1992
  • KRS 150.680— Concurrent criminal jurisdiction of portions of Trigg and Lyon Counties within boundaries of Land Between the Lakes ceded to United States
  • KRS 150.690— Wrongfully entering park and injuring or killing deer, elk or buffalo -- Treble damages
  • KRS 150.700— Destroying private fish pond -- Treble damages
  • KRS 150.710— Intentional obstruction of lawful taking of wildlife
  • KRS 150.720— Administrative regulations relating to cervids -- Costs resulting from importation of diseased animal
  • KRS 150.722— Authorized methods of disposal of cervid carcass material and waste by cervid meat processors, butchers or meat processors, and licensed taxidermists
  • KRS 150.725— Definitions for KRS 150.725 to 150.735
  • KRS 150.730— Permits to hold captive cervids -- Amendments to existing holding and fencing requirements -- Duties of department
  • KRS 150.735— Placement of primary containment fence -- Expansion of captive cervid facility -- Transfer of permits -- Violation of captive cervid law or regulation -- Rights and potential penalties
  • KRS 150.740— Ban on live Cervidae importation except under certain conditions -- Penalties -- Reports on chronic wasting disease to be submitted to Interim Joint Committees annually -- Authority of department to seize captive cervids -- Hearing -- Appeal
  • KRS 150.990— Penalties
  • KRS 150.991— Repealed, 1975
  • KRS 150.992— Repealed, 1988
  • KRS 150.993— Repealed, 1988
  • KRS 150.995— Violations for which additional restitution shall be paid to department
  • KRS 150.999— Prepayment of fines subject to certain conditions
  • KRS 150.4111— Sale of legally taken wildlife
  • KRS 150.4112— Administrative regulations to allow resident nonprofit 501(c)(3) institution to sell donated mounted wildlife specimen
  • KRS 150.4113— Administrative regulations to allow sale and purchase of mounted wildlife specimens -- Recording of sales