Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, March 1, 2024
RELATES TO:
KRS
150.010(40),
150.025(1),
150.305(1),
150.330,
150.340(1),
(3),
150.600(1),
150.990, 59 C.F.R.
20
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
KRS
150.025(1) authorizes the
department to make administrative regulations which apply to a limited area or
to the entire state. This administrative regulation establishes waterfowl
hunting zones.
Section 1. Goose Hunting
Zones.
(1) The Western Goose Zone includes
Henderson County and the portion of Kentucky west of:
(a) US 60 from the Henderson-Union County
line to US 641;
(b) US 641 to
Interstate 24;
(c) Interstate 24 to
the Purchase Parkway; and
(d) The
Purchase Parkway.
(2)
The Ballard Zone includes the portion of Ballard County north or west of:
(a) The Ballard-McCracken County line to
State Road 358;
(b) State Road 358
to US 60;
(c) US 60 to the city
limits of Wickliffe;
(d) The city
limits of Wickliffe to the center of the Mississippi River.
(3) The Ballard Reporting Area
includes:
(a) The portion of Ballard County
not included in the Ballard Zone;
(b) Carlisle and McCracken Counties;
and
(c) The portions of Fulton,
Graves, Hickman and Marshall Counties in the Western Goose Zone.
(4) The Henderson-Union Zone
includes Henderson County and the portion of Union County in the Western Goose
Zone.
(5) Counties associated with
the Henderson-Union Zone include those portions of Crittenden, Livingston and
Lyon Counties in the Western Goose Zone.
(6) The Pennyroyal-Coalfield Goose Zone
includes the area from the Western Goose Zone to and including Simpson, Warren,
Butler, Ohio, and Daviess Counties.
(7) The Eastern Goose Zone includes the
portions of Kentucky not included in the Western or Pennyroyal-Coalfield Goose
Zones.
(8) The West-Central Special
Hunt Zone includes:
(a) Muhlenberg
County;
(b) Ohio County south of
Rough River;
(c) Butler County west
of Highway 79 and north of Highway 70;
(d) Hopkins County:
1. East of Highways 814 and 109;
2. South of US 41A between Highways 814 and
Madisonville; and
3. South of
Highway 85 east of Madisonville.
(9) The Northeast Special Hunt Zone includes
Bath, Menifee, Morgan and Rowan Counties, except Paintsville Lake and its
shoreline in Morgan County.
Section
2. Duck, Coot, and Merganser Hunting Zones.
(1) The Western Duck Zone includes the
portion of Kentucky in the Western and Pennyroyal-Coalfield Goose
Zones.
(2) The Eastern Duck Zone
includes the portion of Kentucky not in the Western Duck Zone.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY:
KRS
150.025(1),
150.600(1),
50 C.F.R. 20
The
repealed version of this section by
49
Ky.R. 1376, eff. 5/30/2023 is not yet
available.
