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Definition of Hunting - Alaska

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21) “hunting” means the taking of game under AS 16.05 - AS 16.40 and the regulations adopted under those chapters;

Definition of Hunting - Arkansas

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(3) “Hunting” means the lawful pursuit, trapping, shooting, capture, collection, or killing of wildlife or the attempt to pursue, trap, shoot, capture, collect, or kill wildlife.

Definition of Hunting - Colorado

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(25.5) “Hunt” means to pursue, attract, stalk, lie in wait for, or attempt to shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, collect, or take wildlife. “Hunt” does not include stalking, attracting, searching, or lying in wait for...

Definition of Hunting - Connecticut

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(12) “Hunting” means pursuing, shooting, killing and capturing any bird, quadruped or reptile and attempting to pursue, shoot, kill and capture any bird, quadruped or reptile, whether such act results in taking or not...

Definition of Hunting - Delaware

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(3) “Hunt” means to chase, pursue, kill, trap or take or attempt to chase, pursue, kill, trap or take any form of wild bird or wild animal.

Definition of Hunting - Georgia

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(39) “Hunting” means pursuing, shooting, killing, taking, or capturing wildlife or feral hogs. This term also includes acts such as placing, setting, drawing, or using any device used to take wildlife or feral hogs...

Definition of Hunting - Idaho

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(j) “Hunting” means chasing, driving, flushing, attracting, pursuing, worrying, following after or on the trail of, shooting at, stalking, or lying in wait for, any wildlife whether or not such wildlife is then or subsequently captured...

Definition of Hunting - Illinois

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“Hunt” means the act of a person possessing a weapon or being accompanied by a dog or a bird of prey for the purpose of taking species protected by this Act in any location such species may inhabit.

Definition of Hunting - Indiana

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“Hunt”, for purposes of IC 14-22, means to take a wild animal except by trapping.

Definition of Hunting - Iowa

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32. “Take” or “taking” or “attempting to take” or “hunt” is any pursuing, or any hunting, fishing, killing, trapping, snaring, netting, searching for or shooting at, stalking or lying in wait for any game, animal, bird...

Definition of Hunting - Kansas

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(i) “Hunt” means: (1) Take, in any manner, any wildlife other than a fish, bullfrog, furbearing animal or coyote; or (2) take, in any manner other than by trapping, any coyote.

Definition of Hunting - Kentucky

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(12) “Hunting” means to take or attempt to take in any manner, whether the hunter has game in possession or not;

Definition of Hunting - Louisiana

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(71) “Hunt” means, in different tenses, attempting to take.

Definition of Hunting - Maine

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31. Hunt. To “hunt” means to pursue, catch, take, kill or harvest wild animals or wild birds or to attempt to catch, take, kill or harvest wild animals or wild birds.

Definition of Hunting - Maryland

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(k)(1) “Hunt” means to pursue, capture, catch, kill, gig, trap, shoot, or attempt to pursue, capture, catch, kill, gig, trap, or shoot, or in any manner reduce any bird or mammal to personal possession. (2) “Hunt” excludes the sport of fox chasing.

Definition of Hunting - Massachusetts

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The verb “to hunt”, in all of its moods and tenses, includes pursuing, shooting, killing and capturing mammals and birds and all lesser acts such as disturbing, harrying or worrying, or placing, setting, drawing or using any device commonly used to…

Definition of Hunting - Minnesota

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Subd. 26. Hunting. “Hunting” means taking birds or mammals.

Definition of Hunting - Montana

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(6) “Hunt” means to pursue, shoot, wound, take, harvest, kill, chase, lure, possess, or capture or the act of a person possessing a weapon, as defined in 45-2-101, or using a dog or a bird of prey for the purpose of shooting...

Definition of Hunting - Nebraska

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The words “to hunt” and their derivatives, “hunting” and “hunted,” mean to search for, pursue or attract any wildlife for the purpose and with the means of capturing, injuring or killing that wildlife, every attempt to capture...

Definition of Hunting - New Jersey

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“Hunting” means the possession of an instrument used to take wildlife in a condition that makes the instrument readily usable, while in a place or in proximity thereto where wildlife may be found;

Definition of Hunting - New York

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10. “Hunting” means pursuing, shooting, killing or capturing (other than trapping as defined in subdivision 11) wildlife, except wildlife which has been lawfully trapped or otherwise reduced to possession...

Definition of Hunting - North Carolina

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(5a) To Hunt.--To take wild animals or wild birds.

Definition of Hunting - North Dakota

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24. “Hunt” or “hunting” means shooting, shooting at, pursuing, taking, attempting to take, or killing any game animals and game birds; searching for or attempting to locate or flush any game animals and game birds...

Definition of Hunting - Ohio

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(Y) “Hunting” means pursuing, shooting, killing, following after or on the trail of, lying in wait for, shooting at, or wounding wild birds or wild quadrupeds while employing any device commonly used to kill...

Definition of Hunting - Oklahoma

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“Hunting or taking” is pursuing, killing, capturing, trapping, snaring and netting wildlife, and all lesser acts such as disturbing, harrying, worrying or placing, setting, drawing or using any net, trap or other...

Definition of Hunting - Oregon

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(10) “Hunt” means to take or attempt to take any wildlife by means involving the use of a weapon or with the assistance of any mammal or bird.

Definition of Hunting - Pennsylvania

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“Hunt” or “hunting.” Any act or furtherance of the taking or killing of any game or wildlife, or any part or product thereof, and includes, but is not limited to, chasing, tracking, calling, pursuing, lying in wait, trapping, shooting at...

Definition of Hunting - South Dakota

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(14) “Hunt” or “hunting,” shooting, shooting at, pursuing, taking, attempting to take, catching, or killing of any wild animal or animals;

Definition of Hunting - Tennessee

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(19) “Hunting” means chasing, driving, flushing, attracting, pursuing, worrying, following after or on the trail of, searching for, trapping, shooting at, stalking, or lying in wait for, any wildlife, whether or not such wildlife is then or…

Definition of Hunting - Texas

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(1) “Hunt” means capture, trap, take, or kill, or an attempt to capture, trap, take, or kill.

Definition of Hunting - Utah

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(22) “Hunting” means to take or pursue a reptile, amphibian, bird, or mammal by any means.

Definition of Hunting - Virginia

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“Hunting and trapping” includes the act of or the attempted act of taking, hunting, trapping, pursuing, chasing, shooting, snaring or netting birds or animals, and assisting any person who is hunting...

Definition of Hunting - Washington

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(62) “To hunt” and its derivatives means an effort to kill, injure, harass, harvest, or capture a wild animal or wild bird.

Definition of Hunting - West Virginia

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“Hunt” means to pursue, chase, catch or take any wild birds or wild animals. However, the definition of “hunt” does not include an officially sanctioned and properly licensed field trial, water race or wild hunt...

Definition of Hunting - Wisconsin

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(42) “Hunt” or “hunting” includes shooting, shooting at, pursuing, taking, capturing or killing or attempting to capture or kill any wild animal.

Definition of Take and Taking - Alaska

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(35) “take” means taking, pursuing, hunting, fishing, trapping, or in any manner disturbing, capturing, or killing or attempting to take, pursue, hunt, fish, trap, or in any manner capture or kill fish or game;

Definition of Take and Taking - Arizona

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20. “Take” means pursuing, shooting, hunting, fishing, trapping, killing, capturing, snaring or netting wildlife or the placing or using of any net or other device or trap in a manner that may result in the capturing or killing of wildlife.

Definition of Take and Taking - California

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“Take” means hunt, pursue, catch, capture, or kill, or attempt to hunt, pursue, catch, capture, or kill.

Definition of Take and Taking - Colorado

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(43) “Take” means to acquire possession of wildlife; but such term shall not include the accidental wounding or killing of wildlife by a motor vehicle, vessel, or train.

Definition of Take and Taking - Connecticut

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(20) “Taking” means shooting, pursuing, hunting, fishing, killing, capturing, trapping, snaring, hooking and netting any species of wildlife and attempting to shoot, pursue, hunt, fish, kill, capture, trap...

Definition of Take and Taking - Florida

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(38) “Take” means taking, attempting to take, pursuing, hunting, molesting, capturing, or killing any wildlife or freshwater or saltwater fish, or their nests or eggs, by any means, whether or not such...

Definition of Take and Taking - Georgia

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(71) “Taking” means killing, capturing, destroying, catching, or seizing.

Definition of Take and Taking - Hawaii

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“Take” means to injure, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, net, capture, or possess.

Definition of Take and Taking - Idaho

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(i) “Take” means hunt, pursue, catch, capture, shoot, fish, seine, trap, kill, or possess or any attempt to so do.

Definition of Take and Taking - Illinois

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§ 1.2o. “Take” means hunt, shoot, pursue, lure, kill, destroy, capture, gig or spear, trap or ensnare, harass, or to attempt to do so.

Definition of Take and Taking - Indiana

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Sec. 278. “Take” has the following meaning: (1) For purposes of IC 14-22, except as provided in subdivisions (2) and (3): (A) to kill, shoot, spear, gig, catch, trap, harm, harass, or pursue a wild animal; or (B) to attempt to engage in such conduct.…

Definition of Take and Taking - Iowa

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32. “Take” or “taking” or “attempting to take” or “hunt” is any pursuing, or any hunting, fishing, killing, trapping, snaring, netting, searching for or shooting at, stalking or lying in wait for any game, animal...

Definition of Take and Taking - Kansas

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(t) “Take” means harass, harm, pursue, shoot, wound, kill, molest, trap, capture, collect, catch, possess or otherwise take, or attempt to engage in any such conduct.

Definition of Take and Taking - Kentucky

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(38) “Take” includes pursue, shoot, hunt, wound, catch, kill, trap, snare, or capture wildlife in any way and any lesser act designed to lure, attract, or entice for these purposes; and to place, set, aim, or use any device...

Definition of Take and Taking - Louisiana

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(2) “Process of taking” means any act directed at the lawful taking of a wild animal, including the acts of travel, camping, or other activity occurring in preparation for the taking which occurs on state-managed lands or waters...

Definition of Take and Taking - Minnesota

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“Taking” means pursuing, shooting, killing, capturing, trapping, snaring, angling, spearing, or netting wild animals, or placing, setting, drawing, or using a net, trap, or other device to take wild animals...

Definition of Take and Taking - Nebraska

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Take means to harass, wound, hunt, trap, fish, harvest fur, or attempt to harass, wound, hunt, trap, fish, or harvest fur.

Definition of Take and Taking - Nevada

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The words “to take” and their derivatives, “took,” “taken” and “taking,” when used in reference to wildlife, mean to kill, capture, shoot, trap, catch, wound, possess, collect, seine, snare or net, and every attempt to do so.

Definition of Take and Taking - New Hampshire

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XXVII. Take or Taking: Includes pursuing, shooting, hunting, killing, capturing, trapping, snaring, and netting wildlife, and all lesser acts, such as disturbing, harrying, worrying, wounding, or placing, setting, drawing, or using any net or other…

Definition of Take and Taking - New Hampshire

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XXVII. Take or Taking: Includes pursuing, shooting, hunting, killing, capturing, trapping, snaring, and netting wildlife, and all lesser acts, such as disturbing, harrying, worrying, wounding, or placing, setting, drawing, or using any net or other…

Definition of Take and Taking - New Hampshire

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XXVII. Take or Taking: Includes pursuing, shooting, hunting, killing, capturing, trapping, snaring, and netting wildlife, and all lesser acts, such as disturbing, harrying, worrying, wounding, or placing, setting, drawing, or using any net or other…

Definition of Take and Taking - New York

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13. “Taking” and “take” include pursuing, shooting, hunting, killing, capturing, trapping, snaring and netting fish, wildlife, game, shellfish, crustacea and protected insects, and all lesser acts such as disturbing...

Definition of Take and Taking - North Carolina

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(7) To Take.--All operations during, immediately preparatory, and immediately subsequent to an attempt, whether successful or not, to capture, kill, pursue, hunt, or otherwise harm or reduce to possession any fisheries resources or wildlife…

Definition of Take and Taking - Ohio

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(G) “Take or taking” includes pursuing, shooting, hunting, killing, trapping, angling, fishing with a trotline, or netting any clam, mussel, crayfish, aquatic insect, fish, frog, turtle, wild bird, or wild quadruped, and any lesser act...

Definition of Take and Taking - Oklahoma

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“Hunting or taking” is pursuing, killing, capturing, trapping, snaring and netting wildlife, and all lesser acts such as disturbing, harrying, worrying or placing, setting, drawing or using any net, trap or other device used to take wildlife and…

Definition of Take and Taking - Oregon

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(16) “Take” means to kill or obtain possession or control of any wildlife. \

Definition of Take and Taking - Pennsylvania

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“Take.” To harass, pursue, hunt for, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, possess or collect any game or wildlife, including shooting at a facsimile of game or wildlife, or attempt to harass, pursue, hunt for, shoot...

Definition of Take and Taking - South Dakota

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(c) “Take” means to shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or attempt to shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect.

Definition of Take and Taking - Texas

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(5) “Take,” except as otherwise provided by this code, means collect, hook, hunt, net, shoot, or snare, by any means or device, and includes an attempt to take or to pursue in order to take.

Definition of Take and Taking - Utah

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(48) “Take” means to: (a) hunt, pursue, harass, catch, capture, possess, angle, seine, trap, or kill any protected wildlife; or (b) attempt any action referred to in Subsection (48)(a).

Definition of Take and Taking - Vermont

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(23) Take and taking: pursuing, shooting, hunting, killing, capturing, trapping, snaring, and netting fish, birds, and quadrupeds and all lesser acts, such as disturbing, harrying or worrying...

Definition of Take and Taking - Washington

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(64) “To take” and its derivatives means to kill, injure, harvest, or capture a fish, shellfish, wild animal, bird, or seaweed.

Definition of Take and Taking - West Virginia

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“Take” means to hunt, shoot, pursue, lure, kill, destroy, catch, capture, keep in captivity, gig, spear, trap, ensnare, wound or injure any wildlife, or attempt to do so. However, the definition of “take” does not include...

Definition of Take and Taking - Wyoming

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(vii) “Take” means hunt, pursue, catch, capture, shoot, fish, seine, trap, kill, or possess, or attempt to hunt, pursue, catch, capture, shoot, fish, seine, trap, kill, or possess;

Definition of Trapping - Alaska

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(37) “trapping” means the taking of mammals declared by regulation to be fur bearers

Definition of Trapping - Arizona

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22. “Traps” or “trapping” means taking wildlife in any manner except with a gun or other implement in hand.

Definition of Trapping - Arkansas

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(3) “Hunting” means the lawful pursuit, trapping, shooting, capture, collection, or killing of wildlife or the attempt to pursue, trap, shoot, capture, collect, or kill wildlife.

Definition of Trapping - Connecticut

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(21) “Trapping” means pursuing, killing and capturing by use of any trap, snare, net or other device any bird or wild or domestic quadruped, excluding rats, mice, moles and reptiles, whether such act results in taking or not, including any act of…

Definition of Trapping - Delaware

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(3) “Hunt” means to chase, pursue, kill, trap or take or attempt to chase, pursue, kill, trap or take any form of wild bird or wild animal.

Definition of Trapping - Georgia

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(72) “Trapping” means taking, killing, or capturing wildlife with traps. This term also includes all lesser acts such as placing, setting, or staking such traps, whether such acts result in taking or not, and attempting to take and assisting any…

Definition of Trapping - Idaho

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(l) “Trapping” means taking, killing, and capturing wildlife by the use of any trap, snare, deadfall, or other device commonly used to capture wildlife, and the shooting or killing of wildlife lawfully trapped, and includes all lesser acts such as…

Definition of Trapping - Iowa

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32. “Take” or “taking” or “attempting to take” or “hunt” is any pursuing, or any hunting, fishing, killing, trapping, snaring, netting, searching for or shooting at, stalking or lying in wait for any game, animal, bird, or fish protected by the state…

Definition of Trapping - Maine

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64. Trap, the verb. To “trap” means to set, place or tend a trap within the fields, forests or waters of the State, to kill an animal that is caught in a trap or to aid or assist another person in setting or placing a trap, tending a trap or killing…

Definition of Trapping - Maryland

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(k)(1) “Hunt” means to pursue, capture, catch, kill, gig, trap, shoot, or attempt to pursue, capture, catch, kill, gig, trap, or shoot, or in any manner reduce any bird or mammal to personal possession.

Definition of Trapping - Massachusetts

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The verb “to trap”, in all of its moods and tenses, includes any act of staking out, setting, using, tending, placing, maintaining or picking up a trap where furbearing mammals or birds might be found.

Definition of Trapping - Michigan

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(3) “Trap” means taking or attempting to take animals by means of a trap or other device designed to kill or capture animals.

Definition of Trapping - Mississippi

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Taking. “Taking” means pursuing, shooting, killing, capturing, trapping, snaring, angling, spearing, or netting wild animals, or placing, setting, drawing, or using a net, trap, or other device to take wild animals. Taking includes attempting to take…

Definition of Trapping - Montana

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(12) “Trap” means to take or harvest or participate in the taking or harvesting of any wildlife protected by the laws of the state by setting or placing any mechanical device, snare, deadfall, pit, or device intended to take wildlife or to remove…

Definition of Trapping - Nebraska

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Trap means to take or attempt to take any wildlife by any snare, steel-jawed spring trap, or box trap.

Definition of Trapping - Nevada

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The words “to trap” and their derivatives, “trapping” and “trapped,” mean to set or operate any device, mechanism or contraption that is designed, built or made to close upon or hold fast any animal and every act of assistance to any person in so…

Definition of Trapping - New York

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“Trapping” means taking, killing and capturing wildlife with traps, deadfalls and other devices commonly used to take wildlife, and the shooting or killing of wildlife lawfully trapped, and includes all lesser acts such as placing, setting or staking…

Definition of Trapping - Ohio

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“Trapping” means securing or attempting to secure possession of a wild bird or wild quadruped by means of setting, placing, drawing, or using any device that is designed to close upon, hold fast, confine, or otherwise capture a wild bird or wild…

Definition of Trapping - Oklahoma

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“Trap” or “trapping” is the use of traps, nets, snares, deadfalls or other devices used for the purpose of killing, capturing, netting or ensnaring any wildlife.

Definition of Trapping - Oklahoma

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“Trap” or “trapping” is the use of traps, nets, snares, deadfalls or other devices used for the purpose of killing, capturing, netting or ensnaring any wildlife.

Definition of Trapping - Oregon

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“Trap” means to take or attempt to take any wildlife by means involving the use of a trap, net, snare or other device used for the purpose of capture.

Definition of Trapping - Pennsylvania

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“Trapping.” The securing or attempting to secure possession of game or wildlife by means of setting, placing or using any device that is designed to close upon, hold fast, confine or otherwise capture game or wildlife whether these means result in…

Definition of Trapping - South Carolina

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“Trap” means any device, other than a weapon, designed or constructed for taking animals.

Definition of Trapping - South Dakota

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“Trapping,” the taking or the attempting to take of any wild animals by means of setting or operating of any device, mechanism, or contraption that is designed, built, or made to close upon, hold fast, or otherwise capture a wild animal or animals.…

Definition of Trapping - Tennessee

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“Trapping” means taking, killing, and capturing wildlife by the use of any trap, snare, deadfall, or other device commonly used to capture wildlife, and the shooting or killing of wildlife lawfully trapped, and includes all lesser acts such as…

Definition of Trapping - Utah

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“Trapping” means taking protected wildlife with a trapping device.

Definition of Trapping - Virginia

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“Hunting and trapping” includes the act of or the attempted act of taking, hunting, trapping, pursuing, chasing, shooting, snaring or netting birds or animals, and assisting any person who is hunting, trapping or attempting to do so regardless of…

Definition of Trapping - Washington

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“To trap” and its derivatives means a method of hunting using devices to capture wild animals or wild birds.

Definition of Trapping - Wisconsin

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“Trapping” includes the taking, or the attempting to take, of any wild animal by means of setting or operating any device that is designed or made to close upon, hold fast, or otherwise capture a wild animal. When “trap” is used as a verb, it has the…

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