1. (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. (1) submerging the animal in water; or
   2. (2) crushing or asphyxiating the animal.

2. (b) A person may not do the following:

   1. (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. (2) For a trap that is designed to capture but not kill a furbearing animal:

      1. (A) fail to tend or visit; and

      2. (B) remove a furbearing animal from;

         a trap that is the person's property within a period not exceeding twenty-four (24) hours.

   3. (3) For a trap that is designed to capture and kill a furbearing animal:

      1. (A) fail to tend or visit; and

      2. (B) remove a furbearing animal from;

         a trap that is the person's property within a period not exceeding forty-eight (48) hours.

3. (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.

   [Pre-1995 Recodification Citation: 14-2-4-2.]

As added by P.L.1-1995, SEC.15. Amended by P.L.144-2022, SEC.1; P.L.123-2026, SEC.30.