When directed by the department, its employees may trap, by the use of steel or other traps, fox, wildcat, bobcat, wolf, coyote, skunk, raccoons, and any other predatory animals on any lands owned by the State or any of its boards, commissions, officers, institutions, or agencies and on cooperative wildlife management areas within the United States Forest Service lands.
S.C. Code Ann. § 50-11-1150
Authority of department to trap predatory animals
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Peoples Program for Endangered Species v. Sexton (1996)
Most recently applied in Peoples Program for Endangered Species v. Sexton (September 1996)
[Derived from former SECTION 50-11-1550 (1962 Code SECTION 28-491; 1955 (49) 257; 1972 (57) 2431)]; 1988 Act No. 561, SECTION 1; 1993 Act No. 181, SECTION 1262.
Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.