KRS 150.400: Traps -- Approval -- Prohibition -- New design.

(1) No person shall set, use or maintain, for the purpose of taking wildlife, any steel

trap unless the size and type of the trap has been approved by the commissioner and

the commission by regulation.

(2) The commissioner may approve, by regulation, any commercially manufactured trap

which is designed to take wildlife alive and unhurt or to kill instantly.

(3) Subject to the provisions of KRS 150.410 it shall be lawful to use snares, deadfalls,

wire cage or box traps, but no person shall set, use or maintain a snare large enough

to take deer, elk or bear.

(4) Any manufacturer designing a new trap may send a sample to the commissioner for

approval or disapproval.