Section 14-22-6-4 - Trapping; tending traps(a) For purposes of this section, a trap is designed to capture and kill a furbearing animal if the animal's death is the result of:(1) submerging the animal in water; or(2) crushing or asphyxiating the animal.(b) A person may not do the following:(1) Tend or visit a trap or remove a furbearing animal from a trap that is not the person's property without the permission of the owner.(2) For a trap that is designed to capture but not kill a furbearing animal, fail to tend or visit or have tended or visited a trap and remove a furbearing animal from a trap that is the person's property within a period not exceeding twenty-four (24) hours.(3) For a trap that is designed to capture and kill a furbearing animal, fail to tend or visit or have tended or visited a trap and remove a furbearing animal from a trap that is the person's property within a period not exceeding forty-eight (48) hours.(c) The department shall publish a recommendation that the best practice to comply with this section is to tend or visit, or have tended or visited a furbearing trap that is the person's property within a period not to exceed twenty-four (24) hours.Pre-1995 Recodification Citation: 14-2-4-2.
Amended by P.L. 144-2022,SEC. 1, eff. 7/1/2022.As added by P.L. 1-1995, SEC.15.