40-3-26. Rules regulating breeding, raising, marketing, and transportation of certain captive nondomestic animals.The Animal Industry Board shall, by rules promulgated pursuant to chapter 1-26, regulate the breeding, raising, marketing, and transportation of any captive nondomestic animal of the mammalia class and the products thereof which is allowed in the state pursuant to §40-3-25. The rules may provide the following:(1)Require a permit of any person possessing such animals;(2)Prescribe the application procedures for a permit;(3)Require a legal description of the premises where such animals are held;(4)Require an inventory of such animals at the time of application and require reports to provide for the continual accounting of such animals and their offspring;(5)Require the marking of such animals for identification purposes;(6)Require facilities and procedures to ensure such animals to be confined from free-roaming animals;(7)Establish facility requirements and procedures for identification and inspection of such animals by the board;(8)Establish the grounds for denial, suspension, or revocation of a permit and for the seizure and disposition of any unlawfully held animal; dentification and inspection of such animals by the board;(8)Establish the grounds for denial, suspension, or revocation of a permit and for the seizure and disposition of any unlawfully held animal; and(9)Establish a fee for a permit which may not exceed one hundred dollars. Source: SL 1993, ch 311, §4.
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