CHAPTER 110
TRAPPING LIMITATIONS
[Prior to 12/31/86, Conservation Commission[290] Ch 114]
571—110.1(481A) Public roadside limitations—snares, body-gripping, and conibear type traps. No person shall set or maintain any snare, body-gripping, or conibear type trap within any public road right-of-way within 200 yards of buildings inhabited by human beings unless a resident of the dwelling adjacent to the public road right-of-way has given permission or unless the body-gripping or conibear type trap is completely under water or at least one-half of the loop of a snare is under water. Nothing in this rule shall be construed as limiting the use of foothold traps or box-type live traps in public road rights-of-way.
571—110.2(481A) Snares.
	110.2(1) Placement. No person shall set or maintain any snare in any public road right-of-way so that the snare when fully extended can touch any fence. Snares may not be attached to a drag.
	110.2(2) Loop size. No snare when set will have a loop larger than 8 inches in horizontal measurement except for snares set with at least one-half of the loop underwater or snares set on private land other than roadsides within 30 yards of a pond, lake, drainage ditch, creek, stream or river shall not have a loop larger than 11 inches in horizontal measurement.
	110.2(3) Deer locks. All snares must have a functional deer lock that will not allow the snare loop to close smaller than 2½ inches in diameter.
	110.2(4) Mechanical snares. It shall be illegal to set any mechanically powered snare designed to capture an animal by the neck or body unless such snares are placed completely underwater.
571—110.3(481A) Body-gripping and conibear type traps. No person shall set or maintain any body-gripping or conibear type trap on any public road right-of-way within 5 feet of any fence.
571—110.4(481A) Foothold and leghold traps. No person shall set or maintain on land any foothold or leghold trap with metal-serrated jaws, metal-toothed jaws or a spread inside the set jaws of greater than 7 inches.
571—110.5(481A) Removal of animals from traps and snares. All animals or animal carcasses caught in any type of trap or snare, except those which are placed entirely underwater and designed to drown the animal immediately, must be removed from the trap or snare by the trap or snare user immediately upon discovery and within 24 hours of the time the animal is caught.
571—110.6(481A) Trap tag requirements. All traps and snares, whether set or not, possessed by a person who can reasonably be presumed to be trapping shall have a metal tag attached plainly labeled with the user’s name and address.
571—110.7(481A) Colony traps. All colony traps must be set entirely under water.
These rules are intended to implement Iowa Code sections 481A.38 and 481A.92.
[Filed 9/5/85, Notice 7/3/85—published 9/25/85, effective 10/30/85]
[Filed 6/11/86, Notice 4/23/86—published 7/2/86, effective 8/6/86]1
[Filed without Notice 12/12/86—published 12/31/86, effective 2/4/87]
[Filed 6/9/88, Notice 3/23/88—published 6/29/88, effective 8/29/88]
[Filed 8/17/90, Notice 6/27/90—published 9/5/90, effective 10/10/90]
[Filed 6/5/92, Notice 4/29/92—published 6/24/92, effective 7/29/92]
[Filed 5/7/93, Notice 3/31/93—published 5/26/93, effective 6/30/93]
[Filed 8/11/95, Notice 3/1/95—published 8/30/95, effective 10/4/95]
[Filed 11/12/99, Notice 10/6/99—published 12/1/99, effective 1/5/00]
1	Effective date of Ch 114 delayed 70 days by the Administrative Rules Review Committee at its meeting held July 31, 1986. Effective date delayed until the adjournment of the 1987 Session of the General Assembly pursuant to Iowa Code section 17A.8(9) as amended by 1986 Iowa Acts, Senate File 2175, section 2039, by the Administrative Rules Review Committee at its meeting held August 21, 1986.