LD 1600
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A.__Set or tend a snare for the purpose of trapping any wild
animal or wild bird, except as provided in section 10105,
subsection 1 and section 12259;

 
B.__Set or tend a set gun for the purpose of killing,
taking, catching, wounding, harming or molesting any wild
animal or wild bird;

 
C.__Deposit any poisonous or stupefying substance for the
purpose of killing, taking, catching, wounding, harming or
molesting any wild animal or wild bird, except that a
landowner or member of the landowner's immediate family may
use gas cartridges on the landowner's own land for woodchuck
control; or

 
D.__Sell, advertise, give notice of the sale or keep for
sale any set gun or poisonous substance for the taking of
wild animals or wild birds, except that a person may sell,
advertise, give notice of sale of or keep for sale
rodenticide for orchard mouse control and gas cartridges for
woodchuck control.

 
3.__Use of pole traps.__A person may not use or set any steel
trap on the top of a pole, constituting a device commonly known
as a "pole trap" for the purposes of catching any wild bird.

 
§12253.__Consent to trap

 
1.__Trapping without written consent.__A person may not,
without first obtaining the written consent of the landowner or
occupant, trap any wild animal on land in any organized or
incorporated place or on the cultivated or pasture area of land
that is used for agricultural purposes in any unorganized place
and on which land there is an occupied dwelling.__The provisions
of this subsection do not apply to:

 
A.__Beaver trapping;

 
B.__Trapping with drowning sets in navigable rivers and
streams; or

 
C.__Trapping with drowning sets on state-owned land and
public rights-of-way.

 
2.__Trapping near occupied dwelling without written consent.__
A person may not trap any wild animal within 200 yards of an
occupied dwelling without first obtaining the written consent of
the owner or occupant of the land on which the trap is to be set.
The provisions of this subsection do not apply to


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