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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
H. B. 4456
(
By Delegates Stemple, Poling, Varner and
Pethtel)
(Originating in the Committee on the Judiciary)
[February 22, 2006]
A BILL to amend and reenact §20-2-20 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to beaver trapping; removing
limitations on numbers and location of traps; allowing
disturbance of structures constructed by beavers when
trapping; and removing certain duties for persons who
unintentionally trap or kill beavers.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §20-2-20 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. WILDLIFE RESOURCES.
§20-2-20. Trapping beaver.
No person shall at any time:
(1) Set or maintain more than the number of beaver traps, or
groups of beaver traps, established as the season limit in any one
year by the director;
(2) Set any traps for beaver within fifteen feet of the
waterline on the structure of any beaver house;
(3) A person may not have in his possession an untagged beaver
hide, or part thereof, within the period beginning thirty days
after the end of the open season and ending with the first day of
the next succeeding open season for beavers. and
(4) Destroy, disturb, or in any manner interfere with dams,
houses, or burrows of beavers while trapping for or attempting to
trap for beavers.
If any person shall unintentionally trap and kill more beavers
than fixed by regulations as the season bag limit, he shall, within
twenty-four hours thereafter, deliver said beaver or beavers to a
conservation officer.
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