IC 14-22-6-4 — Trapping; tending traps
Chapter 6. Regulation of Birds and Mammals
Bills amending this section
Section text
Sec. 4. (a) For purposes of this section, a trap is designed to capture and kill a furbearing animal if the animal's death is the result of: (1) submerging the animal in water; or (2) crushing or asphyxiating the animal. (b) A person may not do the following: (1) Tend or visit a trap or remove a furbearing animal from a trap that is not the person's property without the permission of the owner. (2) For a trap that is designed to capture but not kill a furbearing animal: (A) fail to tend or visit; and (B) remove a furbearing animal from; a trap that is the person's property within a period not exceeding twenty-four (24) hours. (3) For a trap that is designed to capture and kill a furbearing animal: (A) fail to tend or visit; and (B) remove a furbearing animal from; a trap that is the person's property within a period not exceeding forty-eight (48) hours. (c) The department shall publish a recommendation that the best practice to comply with this section is to tend or visit, or have tended or visited a furbearing trap that is the person's property within a period not to exceed twenty-four (24) hours.
As added by P.L.1-1995, SEC.15. Amended by P.L.144-2022, SEC.1; P.L.123-2026, SEC.30.
Source: official publisher (2026 edition)