23-19-1. Possession of licenses, certificates of registration, permits, and tags
required -- Nonassignability -- Exceptions -- Free fishing day.
(1) A person may not engage in hunting, trapping, fishing, or seining protected wildlife
or in the sale, trade, or barter of protected wildlife or their parts without first having procured the
necessary licenses, certificates of registration, permits, and tags as provided under this chapter
and having at the same time the licenses, certificates of registration, permits, and tags on his or
her person, except as provided under Subsection (3).
(2) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (2)(b) a person may not:
(i) lend, transfer, sell, give, or assign licenses, certificates of registration, permits, or tags
belonging to the person or the rights granted by licenses, certificates of registration, permits, or
tags; or
(ii) use or attempt to use a license, certificate of registration, permit, or tag of another
person.
(b) The Wildlife Board may make exceptions to the prohibitions specified in Subsection
(2)(a) for purposes of:
(i) transporting wildlife;
(ii) taking protected wildlife for a person who has a permanent physical impairment due
to injury or disease, congenital or acquired, which renders the person so severely disabled as to
be physically unable to use a legal hunting weapon or fishing device; or
(iii) transferring a certificate of registration to harvest brine shrimp and brine shrimp eggs
to another person, if the certificate is transferred in connection with the sale or transfer of the
brine shrimp harvest operation or the harvesting equipment, subject to the restrictions referred to
under Subsection (2)(c).
(c) (i) A certificate of registration to harvest brine shrimp and brine shrimp eggs may not
be transferred without the approval of the division.
(ii) Application to allow the transfer of a certificate of registration to harvest brine
shrimp and brine shrimp eggs shall be made to the division on a form prescribed and furnished
by it.
(iii) The division may grant a transfer of a certificate of registration to harvest brine
shrimp and brine shrimp eggs if the proposed transferee meets all the requirements necessary to
obtain an original certificate of registration.
(3) No license, certificate of registration, permit, or tag is required to:
(a) fish on a free fishing day which the Wildlife Board may establish each year under
rules prescribed by the board;
(b) fish at a private fish pond operated in accordance with Section 23-15-10; or
(c) hunt birds on a commercial hunting area that the owner or operator is authorized to
propagate, keep, and release for shooting pursuant to a certificate of registration issued under
Section 23-17-6.
Amended by Chapter 69, 2008 General Session
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