Section R657-10-20 - Livestock Depredation and Human Health and Safety(1) If a cougar is harassing, chasing, disturbing, harming, attacking or killing livestock, or has committed such an act within the past 96 hours:(a) in depredation cases, the livestock owner, an immediate family member or an employee of the owner on a regular payroll, and not hired specifically to take cougar, may kill the cougar;(b) a landowner or livestock owner may notify the division of the depredation or human health and safety concerns, who shall authorize a local hunter to take the offending cougar or notify a USDA, Wildlife Services specialist; or(c) the livestock owner may notify a USDA, Wildlife Services specialist of the depredation who may take the depredating cougar.(2) Depredating cougar may be taken at any time by a USDA, Wildlife Services specialist, supervised by the Wildlife Services program, while acting in the performance of the person's assigned duties and in accordance with procedures approved by the division.(3)(a) A depredating cougar may be taken by those persons authorized in Subsection (1)(a) with: (i) any weapon authorized for taking cougar; or(ii) with the use of traps or snares (4)(a) Any cougar taken under Subsection (1)(a) or (4)(a) shall remain the property of the state and must be reported to a division office or employee within 96 hours.(b) The division may issue a cougar damage permit to a person who has killed a depredating cougar under Subsection (1)(a) that authorizes the person to keep the carcass.(c) A person that takes a cougar under Subsection (1)(a) or (4)(a) may acquire and use a hunting or combination license in the same year.Utah Admin. Code R657-10-20
Amended by Utah State Bulletin Number 2023-16, effective 8/10/2023