CSV.1.8.170 Specific Trapping Regulations

No member or duly authorized non-member shall:

(a) Set out traps, snares, or restraining snares except during the open season.

(b) Set out bait or scent for attracting furbearing animals except during the open season.

(d) Use water sets except during the open season.

(e) Fail to check all trap, snare, or restraining snare sets and to remove all animals therein at least once every 3-days, except sets placed for weasels consisting of body gripping traps placed entirely in enclosures, with no opening larger than 1 ⅜ inch in diameter, and anchored to an immovable object shall be tended within a 4-day period following the last tending of the set. Any animal captured shall be removed from the set each time the trap is tended.

(f) Set, place, or operate any trap other than a body-gripping or conibear type trap, enclosed trigger trap, snare, restraining snare, steel-jawed trap, or live-trap capable of capturing only one animal in a single setting for the purpose of taking furbearing animals, or a colony trap except for muskrat as follows, except incidentally harvested mink may be retained from a lawfully set colony trap:

(1) The colony trap is not placed within three feet of any culvert.

(2) The colony trap and set does not utilize bait.

(3) The trap is not used in conjunction with any fencing, netting or other material that creates an underwater obstruction designed to force or channel any wild animal into the trap.

(g) Set, place, or operate any body-gripping trap larger than 8" x 8" as measured from the maximum outside points of the effective width and height of the jaws of the trap on dry land or frozen water unless it is four feet (4') or more above ground or placed in a box or similar container with openings restricted to 8" x 8" or less as measured from the maximum outside points of the effective width and height of the container.

(h) Set, place or operate any steel-jawed trap with a spread width of more than 8 inches.

(i) Set, place or operate any steel-jawed trap with teeth except as a water set.

(j) Set, place or operate any body-gripping trap greater than 8" x 8" as measured from the maximum outside points of the effective width and height of the jaws of the trap or 8" in diameter in the following locations:

(1) Within 3 feet of any federal, state or county road right-of-way culvert unless completely submerged in water.

(2) Within 3 feet of any woven or welded wire mesh type fence.

(3) Within 100 yards of any building devoted to human occupancy without the owner's consent.