Chapter 150 - FISH AND WILDLIFE RESOURCES

Section 150.010 - Definitions for chapter
Section 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
Section 150.018 - [Repealed]
Section 150.020 - [Repealed]
Section 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
Section 150.022 - Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission - Appointment processes and conditions - Definition of "sportsman"
Section 150.023 - Meetings and functions of commission
Section 150.024 - Power to acquire property - Condemnation
Section 150.0241 - Access to and use of commission-managed lands for hunting - Duties of commission and other state agencies - Reports
Section 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
Section 150.026 - [Repealed]
Section 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
Section 150.028 - Required administrative regulations
Section 150.030 - [Repealed]
Section 150.040 - [Repealed]
Section 150.050 - [Repealed]
Section 150.060 - [Repealed]
Section 150.061 - Commissioner - Appointment - Qualifications - Term - Removal - Compensation - Oath - Bond - Duties - Annual report - Authority to appoint additional employees if grant funds available
Section 150.065 - Temporary employees
Section 150.070 - [Repealed]
Section 150.071 - [Repealed]
Section 150.072 - [Repealed]
Section 150.080 - [Repealed]
Section 150.081 - Political activity forbidden
Section 150.083 - [Repealed]
Section 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
Section 150.091 - [Repealed]
Section 150.092 - Consent requirement for entry upon lands of another person - Private lands incentive programs - Arrest and citation authority
Section 150.095 - Game wardens may bear arms
Section 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
Section 150.100 - Execution of process by commissioner, department personnel and persons appointed by commissioner
Section 150.105 - Destruction or control of animals causing damage
Section 150.110 - Enforcement of law as to mussels
Section 150.120 - Seizure and sale of contraband
Section 150.130 - County and Commonwealth's attorneys to enforce laws and regulations
Section 150.140 - Report and payment of moneys by circuit clerk
Section 150.150 - Game and fish fund - Mussel beds - Funds for hunger relief - Accounting and report - Contribution to Becoming an Outdoors-Woman Program
Section 150.152 - Report of audit of department by Auditor of Public Accounts
Section 150.160 - Disposition of fines
Section 150.165 - Nongame fish and wildlife fund
Section 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
Section 150.172 - Possession and use of firearm for self-defense and defense of others while hunting or trapping - Exceptions - Administrative regulations
Section 150.175 - Kinds of licenses and tags - Multiyear licenses or permits
Section 150.176 - [Repealed]
Section 150.177 - Special permit for incorporated nonprofit wildlife conservation organization
Section 150.178 - Cooperator permits - Administrative regulations
Section 150.179 - Waiver of license requirement and discounting of licenses or permits for event supporting a recreational activity - Free-fishing weekend
Section 150.180 - Buying, selling, or transporting protected wildlife, mussels and fishes, raw fur, or processed wildlife
Section 150.183 - Importing, transporting or possessing endangered species of wildlife
Section 150.185 - [Repealed]
Section 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
Section 150.190 - Outfitter license or guide's license
Section 150.195 - Design, issuance, and distribution of licenses and permits - Administrative regulations
Section 150.200 - [Repealed]
Section 150.210 - [Repealed]
Section 150.220 - [Repealed]
Section 150.221 - [Repealed]
Section 150.225 - Prescription of license, permit, and registration fees - Fiduciary capacity of person who collects, receives, possesses, or manages fees
Section 150.230 - [Repealed]
Section 150.235 - License or permit required - To be carried on person - Nonresidents - Effect of revocation or suspension of license or permit
Section 150.236 - Effect of revocation or suspension of license by another jurisdiction in United States or Canada
Section 150.237 - [Repealed]
Section 150.238 - Reciprocal agreements with other states relating to violations of hunting and fishing laws - Administrative regulations
Section 150.240 - Contract for game refuge - Public or commercial shooting areas
Section 150.250 - Contract for wildlife preservation or propagation
Section 150.255 - Wetland or stream compensatory mitigation projects - Mitigation fund - Purposes
Section 150.260 - Wildlife restoration in cooperation with federal government
Section 150.265 - [Repealed]
Section 150.270 - Consent to acquisition by United States of migratory bird reservations
Section 150.275 - Permit to take and transport wildlife for commercial nuisance wildlife control, scientific, or educational purposes - Fees to be set by administrative regulation
Section 150.280 - Propagation and holding of protected wildlife - Permits - Revocation for violation of state or federal law
Section 150.290 - Sale and transportation of wildlife by breeders
Section 150.300 - Poaching - Destroying or defacing signs and notices
Section 150.305 - Possession of wildlife or raw fur out of season - Inspection of commercial frozen food lockers
Section 150.310 - [Repealed]
Section 150.320 - Birds not protected - Nests and eggs
Section 150.330 - Migratory birds - Waterfowl
Section 150.340 - Bag and creel limits - Limit on possession - Migratory birds
Section 150.350 - [Repealed]
Section 150.355 - Ferrets
Section 150.360 - Restrictions on taking of wildlife - Discharge of weapon across public roadway prohibited
Section 150.361 - Taking game with a firearm during bow season prohibited
Section 150.362 - Prohibition against taking wildlife by person under influence of alcohol or controlled substance
Section 150.363 - Computer-assisted remote hunting unlawful - Citizens with disabilities
Section 150.365 - Fire, explosives, electric devices, gas, smoke to take wildlife prohibited
Section 150.370 - Open season for wildlife - Exceptions
Section 150.380 - [Repealed]
Section 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
Section 150.395 - Prohibition against use of artificial light
Section 150.398 - [Repealed]
Section 150.399 - Traps illegally set or used - Seizure or treatment as contraband
Section 150.400 - Traps - Approval - Prohibition - New design
Section 150.410 - Tagging of traps - Visiting trap line - Protection of domestic animals
Section 150.411 - Taxidermist's records - Mounting
Section 150.4111 - Sale of legally taken wildlife
Section 150.4112 - Administrative regulations to allow resident nonprofit 501(c)(3) institution to sell donated mounted wildlife specimen
Section 150.4113 - Administrative regulations to allow sale and purchase of mounted wildlife specimens - Recording of sales
Section 150.412 - Restriction on commercial guide's participation in taking of wildlife or fish while providing guide services
Section 150.415 - Fur buyer - Receipts for purchases
Section 150.416 - Fur processor - Receipts and inventory
Section 150.417 - Nonresident accompanying resident fur buyer - Presumption from
Section 150.420 - [Repealed]
Section 150.425 - Bounty on beaver
Section 150.430 - [Repealed]
Section 150.440 - Open season and creel limits for rough fish
Section 150.445 - Fish not to be taken other than by pole and line near dams
Section 150.450 - Use, operation, and possession of certain fishing gear
Section 150.460 - Use of certain substances and devices in public waters prohibited - Use of explosives and firearms prohibited
Section 150.470 - Creel and size limits for fish
Section 150.480 - [Repealed]
Section 150.485 - Live fish and bait dealers
Section 150.490 - [Repealed]
Section 150.500 - [Repealed]
Section 150.510 - [Repealed]
Section 150.520 - Department may regulate musseling
Section 150.525 - License for buying mussel shells or mussels in the shell
Section 150.530 - [Repealed]
Section 150.540 - [Repealed]
Section 150.550 - [Repealed]
Section 150.560 - [Repealed]
Section 150.570 - [Repealed]
Section 150.580 - [Repealed]
Section 150.590 - [Repealed]
Section 150.600 - Regulation of the taking of waterfowl
Section 150.603 - Migratory bird/waterfowl permit required - Exceptions - Use of revenue generated by sale of migratory bird/waterfowl permit
Section 150.605 - [Repealed]
Section 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
Section 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
Section 150.625 - Highway construction lakes
Section 150.630 - Violations of law pertaining to shooting or hunting preserves - Cancellation or revocation of license
Section 150.640 - Acts of depredation prohibited while hunting, fishing or trapping - Domestic livestock roaming on department lands prohibited
Section 150.645 - Liability of landowner consenting to hunting, fishing, trapping, camping, or hiking on premises - Claims for property damage by state employees participating in wildlife management practices
Section 150.650 - [Repealed]
Section 150.660 - Establishment of pay lakes, authority of commissioner concerning - Stocking requirement - Permits - Revocation of license
Section 150.670 - [Repealed]
Section 150.680 - Concurrent criminal jurisdiction of portions of Trigg and Lyon Counties within boundaries of Land Between the Lakes ceded to United States
Section 150.690 - Wrongfully entering park and injuring or killing deer, elk or buffalo - Treble damages
Section 150.700 - Destroying private fish pond - Treble damages
Section 150.710 - Intentional obstruction of lawful taking of wildlife
Section 150.720 - Administrative regulations relating to cervids - Costs resulting from importation of diseased animal
Section 150.722 - Authorized methods of disposal of cervid carcass material and waste by cervid meat processors, butchers or meat processors, and licensed taxidermists
CAPTIVE CERVID PERMITS (§§ 150.725 — 150.740)
PENALTIES (§§ 150.990 — 150.999)