87-3-501. Open and closed season for fur-bearing animals -- exception. - Montana Statutes

     87-3-501. Open and closed season for fur-bearing animals -- exception. (1) It is unlawful and a misdemeanor for a person to trap or hunt or attempt to trap or hunt any fur-bearing animal until the commission provides an open season on any fur-bearing animal. The furs and hides of fur-bearing animals legally taken during the open season may be possessed, bought, and sold at any time except as provided by law.
     (2) When it is shown that muskrats or beaver are doing severe injury upon or are a menace to the structures, canal banks, or other works of an irrigation project or district or stock water pond, any employee or resident landowner on the project or district may kill or trap or cause to be killed or trapped any muskrat or beaver upon or in menacing proximity to the structures, canal banks, or other works of the project or district or stock water pond during the closed season on muskrats or beaver, after having secured from the director a permit to do so, except that from June 1 to August 31, both dates inclusive, of each year a permit is not required.

     History: En. Sec. 21, Ch. 238, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3704, R.C.M. 1921; amd. Sec. 14, Ch. 77, L. 1923; amd. Sec. 22, Ch. 192, L. 1925; amd. Sec. 17, Ch. 59, L. 1927; re-en. Sec. 3704, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 95, L. 1943; amd. Sec. 8, Ch. 224, L. 1947; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 132, L. 1955; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 69, L. 1961; R.C.M. 1947, 26-321(1st part); amd. Sec. 34, Ch. 417, L. 1995.