49-7-13 - Fee for resident trapper's license; permission of landowners to trap; identification of traps; placing or setting traps near public roads or streets; selling of skins and meat of certain ani
§ 49-7-13. Fee for resident trapper's license; permission of landowners to trap; identification of traps; placing or setting traps near public roads or streets; selling of skins and meat of certain animals during and after trapping season.
(1) Any resident of the state sixteen (16) years of age or older, upon application, is entitled to receive a state trapper's license with tag for the sum of Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00), plus the fee provided in Section 49-7-17. This license shall be required of each helper or assistant sixteen (16) years of age or older employed or used by a trapper.
(2) No person shall trap on the lands of another unless he has the permission of the landowner.
(3) Each trap shall have an identification number permanently inscribed on the trap or attached to the trap by a metal tag. Every trapper shall visit his traps at least every thirty-six (36) hours. The conservation officer may take up any traps not properly marked.
(4) No person shall place or set a trap on or within one hundred (100) feet of any street or public road. Public roads shall not be construed to mean public waterways.
(5) This section shall not apply to a landowner trapping on his own lands except subsection (4).
(6) A trapper shall be allowed to trap fur-bearing animals during trapping season, and sell the pelts of fur-bearing and nuisance animals during the trapping season and for ten (10) days after the close of the season. The meat of legally acquired raccoons, opossums and muskrats may also be bought and sold during trapping season, and for ten (10) days after the close of the season.
Sources: Codes, 1942, § 5873; Laws, 1932, ch. 123; Laws, 1978, ch. 465, § 7; Laws, 1988, ch. 435, § 7; Laws, 1993, ch. 463, § 3; Laws, 1999, ch. 401, § 1; Laws, 2005, ch. 489, § 1; Laws, 2006, ch. 522, § 2, eff from and after passage (approved Apr. 3, 2006.)