§ 20-16-8. Trapping — Steel jawed leghold traps.
(a) No person shall use, set, place, or maintain or tend any steel-jawed, leghold trap
to capture any furbearing mammal or other animal; provided, however, that any person
may apply in writing to the director of the department of environmental management
for a special permit to use a steel-jawed, leghold trap to be used on his or her property
when there exists on his or her property an animal nuisance that cannot be reasonably
abated except by the use of the trap.
(b) If the director determines that this nuisance exists on the property of the applicant
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§ 20-16-8. Trapping — Steel jawed leghold traps.
(a) No person shall use, set, place, or maintain or tend any steel-jawed, leghold trap
to capture any furbearing mammal or other animal; provided, however, that any person
may apply in writing to the director of the department of environmental management
for a special permit to use a steel-jawed, leghold trap to be used on his or her property
when there exists on his or her property an animal nuisance that cannot be reasonably
abated except by the use of the trap.
(b) If the director determines that this nuisance exists on the property of the applicant
that cannot be reasonably abated by means not prohibited by this section, the director
may then issue a permit to the applicant, for a period not exceeding ninety (90) days,
to use, set, place, maintain, or tend any steel-jawed, leghold traps that the director
may deem necessary to eliminate the nuisance.
(c) Any person violating this section shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred
dollars ($500) or be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both, and his or her trapping
license and privilege to trap shall be revoked for one year from the date of conviction.