Bill Title: Prohibits the use of body-gripping traps within 100 feet of a public highway, public road, dwelling, school, playground, day care facility, place of worship, athletic field, or public bike paths, walking paths or hiking trails; prohibits the use of such traps within 500 feet of such facilities without the permission of the owner thereof; authorizes landowners to set traps within 100 feet of their own dwellings; requires that public lands where trapping is permitted to be posted with signs warning of such trapping; makes the violation of laws relating to trapping a misdemeanor; establishes enhanced criminal penalties for use of body-gripping traps too close to certain facilities or dwellings; defines "body-gripping traps".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to environmental conservation [A01754 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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