Indiana § 14-22-6-4 Trapping; tending traps

Indiana Statutes

§ 14-22-6-4 — Trapping; tending traps

Indiana § 14-22-6-4

Art. 22FISH AND WILDLIFE

Ch. 6Regulation of Birds and Mammals

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Ind. Code § 14-22-6-4 (2026).

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(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

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(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.]