Injunction and damages for interference with lawful hunting and trapping
If someone messes with a person's legal hunting or trapping, a court can step in two ways. First, a court can issue an order telling that person to stop the interference. Second, a court can make the troublemaker pay money to the hunter or trapper for losses caused — including wasted money spent on licenses, travel, guides, and gear. The court can also add extra punishment money on top of that.
537.524. and for interference with lawful hunting and trapping. — 1. A court may conduct which would be in violation of section 578.151 or 578.152 upon by a person affected or who reasonably may be affected by such conduct, upon a showing that such conduct is threatened or that it has occurred on particular in the past and that it is not unreasonable to expect that under similar circumstances it be repeated.
2. A court may damages to any person adversely affected by a violation of section 578.151 or 578.152, which may include an award for . In addition to other items of , the measure of damages may include expenditures of the affected person for and fees, travel, guides, special equipment and supplies, to the extent that such expenditures were rendered futile by interference with the lawful hunting or trapping of a wild animal.
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Source & history notes
(L. 1988 S.B. 434 & 435 § 4)
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