West Virginia Code § 20-2-17

Hunting fur-bearing animals; possession of fur; disturbing traps of
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No person shall hunt, capture, trap, take or kill fur-bearing animals except as authorized by
regulation of the director. Except as authorized by the director, no person shall have in his
possession the fresh skin, or part thereof, of any fur-bearing animal, except beaver, within
the period beginning ten days after the end of the open season on such fur-beearing animal
and ending with the first day of the next succeeding open season. No person shall disturb
properly marked traps of another person, kill, remove or take a fur-bearring animal from the
trap of another person without specific authorization of the owner of the trap, except upon
land where the owner of such trap may have placed it without right or permission.

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