§ 20-16-18. Unlawful possession or sale of furbearers.
It is unlawful for any person to have in his or her possession any furbearer, or any part of a furbearer, unless it has been legally taken under the provisions of this chapter or chapter 17 of this title, or shall have been legally imported from another state or country. It is unlawful for any person at any time to sell, or offer for sale, any cottontail rabbit, varying hare, or gray squirrel, or any part thereof, excepting inedible parts such as heads, feet, hides, skins, or tails.
History of Section.P.L. 1981, ch. 197, § 3.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 20-16 - Furbearing Animals
Section 20-16-1. - Furbearers protected.
Section 20-16-2. - Landowners — Nuisance furbearers.
Section 20-16-3. - Possession of ferrets prohibited.
Section 20-16-4. - Raccoon hunting.
Section 20-16-5. - Possession of live raccoons.
Section 20-16-6. - Prohibited methods of taking.
Section 20-16-7. - License required for trapping — Marking of traps.
Section 20-16-8. - Trapping — Steel jawed leghold traps.
Section 20-16-9. - Setting of traps.
Section 20-16-10. - Green pelt as evidence of unlawful taking.
Section 20-16-11. - Disturbing traps of another.
Section 20-16-12. - Report of animals trapped.
Section 20-16-13. - Deprivation of trapping privileges on second conviction.
Section 20-16-16. - Digging or smoking out animals — Use of probes.
Section 20-16-17. - Prohibition against hunting or killing otter.
Section 20-16-18. - Unlawful possession or sale of furbearers.