§ 20-16-9. Setting of traps.
No trap shall be set by any person on the enclosed land of another without the written permission of the owner of the land. Every trap shall be placed in a hole, brush pile, stone wall, or other protected place, so situated as to be inaccessible to any domestic animal. No person setting a trap, or traps, shall fail to visit the traps at least once every twenty-four (24) hours. No traps shall be set, staked, or placed where furbearing animals might be found before the opening day and time of the trapping season established pursuant to § 20-1-12; all traps shall be removed by the last day of the season.
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.