Law about elk importation in Kentucky by Lenka Filipova

Kentucky has settled new law concerning the injunction of transporting elk and deer into the state. A result of law issuing is a dispute over the interstate commerce restriction. According to two Feathers Elk and Bison Ranch in McMinville, Tennessee, and the North American Deer Farmers Association it is illegal to set such a law limiting the international importations. Shawn Schafer, executive director of the deer farmers in Lake City, expressed his doubts about the precise interpretation of the law. The Kentucky's commissioner of Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, Jonathan Jasset, was sued by the farm and the group as it brings them many troubles to obey the law due to the fact that they ship animals in both directions, to and from, Kansas just passing Kentucky on the interstates. Jasset did not answer himself, but Morgain Sprague, general counsel for the Fish and Wildlife department, has warned them by sending a letter that the law is constitutional and interpreted as it was intended. In addition to this, he informed them, that all animal caught in Kentucky will be destroyed. Kentucky intended to protect its own deer and elk from chronic disease. Hence, it proclaimed this so often discussed law including not only import of these animals but it also bans any transportation designed for another country. As it is written in Sprague's letter, "Your clients are free to use the interstates surrounding the Commonwealth of Kentucky to import cargoes into Tennessee." Any violation of the law will be punished by 5 years in prison, paying up to $10,000 and is considered as a felony. Schafer expressed his opinion about this interpretation of the law as the unique and the only one that was provided by Kentucky. He said that it was the only state that banned deer and elk from even crossing state lines.

by Lenka Filipova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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