503.570 - Minimum visitation of traps, snares and other devices not designed to cause immediate death; removal of mammals.

503.570  Minimum visitation of traps, snares and other devices not designed to cause immediate death; removal of mammals.

      1.  A person taking or causing to be taken wild mammals by means of traps, snares or any other devices which do not, or are not designed to, cause immediate death to the mammals, shall, if the traps, snares or devices are placed or set to take mammals, visit or cause to be visited at least once each 96 hours each trap, snare or other device during all of the time the trap, snare or device is placed, set or used to take wild mammals, and remove therefrom any mammals caught therein.

      2.  The provisions of subsection 1 do not apply to employees of the State Department of Agriculture or the United States Department of Agriculture when acting in their official capacities.

      [1:107:1937; 1931 NCL § 3153.01] + [2:107:1937; 1931 NCL § 3153.02]—(NRS A 1967, 599; 1969, 1365; 1979, 348; 1981, 608; 1991, 268, 334; 1993, 1674; 1999, 3626)