§ 20-16-8 - Trapping – Steel jawed leghold traps. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 20-16-8

   § 20-16-8  Trapping – Steel jawedleghold traps. – (a) No person shall use, set, place, or maintain or tend any steel jawedleghold trap to capture any fur-bearing mammal or other animal; provided,however, that any person may apply in writing to the director of the departmentof environmental management for a special permit to use a steel jawed legholdtrap to be used on his or her property when there exists on his or her propertyan animal nuisance which cannot be reasonably abated except by the use of thetrap.

   (b) If the director determines that this nuisance exists onthe property of the applicant which cannot be reasonably abated by means notprohibited by this section, the director may then issue a permit to theapplicant for a period not exceeding ninety (90) days to use, set, place,maintain, or tend any steel jawed leghold traps that the director may deemnecessary to eliminate the nuisance.

   (c) Any person violating this section shall be punished by afine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) or be imprisoned not exceedingone year, or both, and his or her trapping license and privilege to trap shallbe revoked for one year from the date of conviction.