HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3415        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 795

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act concerning the trapping of fur-bearing mammals..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Chapter 131, Section 11 is hereby amended by adding after the words, “The director shall also provide trapper training courses to certify licensed trappers on the effective use of box, cage and conibear type traps, for furbearing mammals, including beaver or muskrat” the following: -

                Any person licensed to trap fur-bearing mammals shall follow the “Best Management Practices” guidelines approved by the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, and said license shall allow for the possession of equipment recommended under those guidelines.