32-1012. Application of prohibitions regarding nongame or endangered species. - Kansas Statutes

32-1012

Chapter 32.--WILDLIFE, PARKS AND RECREATION Article 10.--ENFORCEMENT

      32-1012.   Application of prohibitions regarding nongame or endangered species.(a) Nothing in the nongame and endangered species conservation actshall be construed to:

      (1)   Apply retroactively to any occurrence prior to July 1, 1975;

      (2)   prohibit importation into the state of wildlife which may belawfully imported into the United States or lawfully taken and removed fromanother state; or

      (3)   prohibit entry into the state or possession, transportation,exportation, processing, sale or offer for sale or shipment of any speciesof wildlife which is deemed to be threatened or endangered in this statebut not in the state where originally taken, if the person engaging thereindemonstrates by circumstantial evidence that such species of wildlife waslawfully taken and lawfully removed from such state.

      (b)   The provisions of this section shall not be construed to permit thepossession, transportation, exportation, processing, sale or offer for saleor shipment within this state of any species of wildlife determined to be athreatened species or endangered species pursuant to Pub. L. No. 93-205(December 28, 1973), the endangered species act of 1973, and actsamendatory thereof except as permitted in K.S.A. 32-961.

      History:   L. 1975, ch. 221, § 10;L. 1989, ch. 118, § 123; July 1.