In order to protect game animals, birds and fish against importation of undesirable species and introduction of infectious or contagious diseases, it is a misdemeanor to import any live animals, birds or fish into this state, except domesticated animals or domesticated fowl or fish from government hatcheries, without first obtaining a permit from the department of game and fish. History: Laws 1927, ch. 37, § 1; C.S. 1929, § 57-501; 1941 Comp., § 43-320; 1953 Comp., § 53-3-26; Laws 1963, ch. 213, § 4. ANNOTATIONSFertile eggs come within the classification of live birds. 1955 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 55-6154. Burden is on importer to prove game birds were domesticated. — This section requires the person importing any live animals, birds or fish into this state to obtain a permit from the director. It exempts domesticated animals or domesticated fowl, and the burden of proving that any such birds, if within the birds declared to be game birds, were domesticated would fall upon the person desiring to import them without a permit. 1955 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 55-6154.
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