It shall be unlawful for any person operating a grocery store, hotel, market, cold storage house, restaurant, or other commercial facility to receive for storage or to store any wildlife or parts thereof without first obtaining a wildlife storage permit from the department and without requiring the person delivering the wildlife for storage to exhibit a valid license authorizing the person to take or possess the wildlife, provided that nothing in this Code section shall be construed to require a permit to store fish.
(Ga. L. 1937, p. 678, § 1; Ga. L. 1955, p. 483, § 70; Code 1933, § 45-316, enacted by Ga. L. 1977, p. 396, § 1; Ga. L. 1978, p. 816, § 33.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 35A Am. Jur. 2d, Fish, Game, and Wildlife Conservation, §§ 56, 57.
C.J.S.- 36A C.J.S., Fish, § 28. 38 C.J.S., Game; Conservation and Preservation of Wildlife, § 52.