40-3-26. Rules regulating breeding, raising, marketing, and transportation of certain captive nondomestic animals.

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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; and

(9)Establish a fee for a permit which may not exceed one hundred dollars.