Section 212:25 Permit Required.
I. No person shall propagate or sell, dead or alive, wildlife or the eggs or progeny thereof, or operate a hunting preserve, without first obtaining a permit from the executive director except as permitted under title XVIII. The executive director shall have the authority to determine the time period and any other conditions governing the issuance of such permit. The executive director may refuse to issue a permit if he determines that such issuance may pose significant disease, genetic, ecological, environmental, health, safety, or welfare risks to persons or wildlife.
II. The executive director shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A relative to the taking, permitting, inspection, possession, processing, sale, rearing, harvesting, identifying, releasing and transportation of wildlife as related to the propagation or selling of wildlife, or the operation of a hunting preserve, including, but not limited to:
(a) The size, sex, number and quantity possessed, processed or imported.
(b) The areas to be opened or closed to their harvesting, rearing, and releasing.
(c) The method and manner of harvest.
(d) The transportation within or through the state of New Hampshire and its waters.
(e) The sale, inspection, processing, and marking.
(f) Method of keeping.
(g) Method of recapture.
(h) Permit fee schedules.
(i) Appropriate definitions.
Source. 1935, 124:6. RL 246:21. RSA 212:25. 1992, 171:8. 1994, 153:3, eff. Jan. 1, 1995.