A. A person may hunt, kill, capture or otherwise take or destroy any furbearer pursuant to this section or pursuant to rules promulgated by the Wildlife Conservation Commission.
B. A person may kill furbearers actually found destroying livestock, poultry or exotic livestock. A person may also run or chase a fox, bobcat and raccoon with dogs for sport only. For purposes of this section, the term "exotic livestock" means commercially raised exotic livestock including animals of the families bovidae, cervidae and antilocapridae or birds of the ratite group.
Added by Laws 1974, c. 17, § 5-405, emerg. eff. April 8, 1974. Amended by Laws 1977, c. 171, § 3, eff. Oct. 1, 1977; Laws 1993, c. 36, § 7, eff. July 1, 1993; Laws 1996, c. 135, § 2, eff. July 1, 1996; Laws 2006, c. 131, § 2, eff. July 1, 2006; Laws 2009, c. 110, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2009; Laws 2021, c. 29, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2021.