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97B.931 Tending traps.

Subdivision 1. Restrictions. A person may not tend a trap set for wild animals between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. Between 5:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. a person on foot may use a portable artificial light to tend traps. While using a light in the field, the person may not possess or use a firearm other than a handgun of .22 caliber.

Subd. 2. Body-gripping traps. A body-gripping, conibear-type trap need not be tended more frequently than once every third calendar day.

HIST: 1986 c 386 art 2 s 73; 1987 c 131 s 3; 1994 c 623 art 1 s 38; 1Sp1995 c 1 s 31

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