Fish & G. Code, § 3003.1 · Article 1. Methods of Taking
Fish & G. Code, § 3003.1
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) Notwithstanding Section 1001, 1002, 4002, 4004, 4007, 4008, 4009.5, 4152, 4180, or 4181:
(1) It is unlawful for any person to trap for the purposes of recreation or commerce in fur any fur-bearing mammal or nongame mammal with any body-gripping trap. A body-gripping trap is one that grips the mammal’s body or body part, including, but not limited to, steel-jawed leghold traps, padded-jaw leghold traps, conibear traps, and snares. Cage and box traps, nets, suitcase-type live beaver traps, and common rat and mouse traps shall not be considered body-gripping traps.
(2) It is unlawful for any person to buy, sell, barter, or otherwise exchange for profit, or to offer to buy, sell, barter, or otherwise exchange for profit, the raw fur, as defined by Section 4005, of any fur-bearing mammal or nongame mammal that was trapped in this state, with a body-gripping trap as described in paragraph (1).
(3) It is unlawful for any person, including an employee of the federal, state, county, or municipal government, to use or authorize the use of any steel-jawed leghold trap, padded or otherwise, to capture any game mammal, exotic game mammal, fur-bearing mammal, nongame mammal, or protected mammal, or any dog or cat. The prohibition in this subdivision does not apply to federal, state, county, or municipal government employees or their duly authorized agents in the extraordinary case where the otherwise prohibited padded-jaw leghold trap is the only method available to protect human health or safety.
(4) For purposes of this section, fur-bearing mammals, game mammals, nongame mammals, and protected mammals are those mammals so defined by statute on January 1, 1997, except as regards exotic game mammals.
(b) Nothing in this section authorizes any person to trap for purposes of recreation or commerce in fur any fur-bearing mammal or nongame mammal by any other means.
(c) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2024.
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History
Repealed (in Sec. 1) and added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 469, Sec. 2. (SB 856) Effective January 1, 2023. Operative July 1, 2024, by its own provisions.
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- Fish & G. Code, § 1001Printed as Section 1001, 1002, 4002, 4004, 4007, 4008, 4009.5, 4152, 4180, or 4181
- Fish & G. Code, § 1002Printed as Section 1001, 1002, 4002, 4004, 4007, 4008, 4009.5, 4152, 4180, or 4181
- Fish & G. Code, § 4002Printed as Section 1001, 1002, 4002, 4004, 4007, 4008, 4009.5, 4152, 4180, or 4181
- Fish & G. Code, § 4004Printed as Section 1001, 1002, 4002, 4004, 4007, 4008, 4009.5, 4152, 4180, or 4181
- Fish & G. Code, § 4007Printed as Section 1001, 1002, 4002, 4004, 4007, 4008, 4009.5, 4152, 4180, or 4181
- Fish & G. Code, § 4008Printed as Section 1001, 1002, 4002, 4004, 4007, 4008, 4009.5, 4152, 4180, or 4181
- Fish & G. Code, § 4009.5Printed as Section 1001, 1002, 4002, 4004, 4007, 4008, 4009.5, 4152, 4180, or 4181
- Fish & G. Code, § 4152Printed as Section 1001, 1002, 4002, 4004, 4007, 4008, 4009.5, 4152, 4180, or 4181
- Fish & G. Code, § 4180Printed as Section 1001, 1002, 4002, 4004, 4007, 4008, 4009.5, 4152, 4180, or 4181
- Fish & G. Code, § 4181Printed as Section 1001, 1002, 4002, 4004, 4007, 4008, 4009.5, 4152, 4180, or 4181
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