Rhode Island Canned Hunt Statutes and Regulations

No Ban: Mammals permitted.

Statute

Rhode Island law requires that a license be obtained to operate a "shooting preserve." G.L. §20-2-16(4), §20-2-16.1, and §20-2-19-2.

The annual license fee for operating a shooting preserve shall be twenty-five dollars ($25.00). The fee for hunting on such a hooting preserve is set at three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50).  "Domestic game birds may be released and taken by shooting on shooting preserves." Id. at §20-19-2.

The shooting area is required to be "a single body of land not less than one hundred twenty (120) acres in size..." Id. at §20-19-2(1).

A commercial game propagation license is required by any person who desires to "engage in the commercial raising or selling of wild birds, game quadrupeds, or domestic game birds..." Id. at §20-17-2(a).

Game raised under such a license "may be bought, sold, and had in possession, live, at any season of the year for purposes of propagation." Id. at §20-17-2(b).

Only persons who hold a game propagation license or permit "may engage in the rearing within an enclosure of any wild birds, game quadrupeds, or domestic game, to be disposed of for purposes of propagation under any rules and regulations as shall be made from time to time by the director, or, in the case of domestic game, for liberation at field trials or upon game preserves." Id. at §20-17-1.

Regulation

According to information supplied by the Rhode Island Division of Fish and Wildlife, no regulations have been promulgated pertaining to the establishment and operation of shooting preserves.

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