3.__Closed season violation. A person may not trap, or attempt to trap, any wild animal or wild bird during the closed season or possess any wild animal or wild bird taken during the closed season on that wild animal or wild bird.

§12252.__Unlawful trapping methods

1.__Unlawfully rigging traps.__A person may not use auxiliary teeth on any leg-hold trap set on land.

2.__Use or possession of prohibited implements or aids.__A person may not:

A.__Set or tend a snare for the purpose of trapping any wild animal or wild bird, except as provided in section 10105, subsection 1 and section 12259;

B.__Set or tend a set gun for the purpose of killing, taking, catching, wounding, harming or molesting any wild animal or wild bird;

C.__Deposit any poisonous or stupefying substance for the purpose of killing, taking, catching, wounding, harming or molesting any wild animal or wild bird, except that a landowner or member of the landowner's immediate family may use gas cartridges on the landowner's own land for woodchuck control; or

D.__Sell, advertise, give notice of the sale or keep for sale any set gun or poisonous substance for the taking of wild animals or wild birds, except that a person may sell, advertise, give notice of sale of or keep for sale rodenticide for orchard mouse control and gas cartridges for woodchuck control.

3.__Use of pole traps.__A person may not use or set any steel trap on the top of a pole, constituting a device commonly known as a "pole trap" for the purposes of catching any wild bird.

§12253.__Consent to trap

1.__Trapping without written consent.__A person may not, without first obtaining the written consent of the land owner or occupant, trap any wild animal on land in any organized or