(A) Upon payment of a nonrefundable application fee for applicants seeking a permit for the first time, the department shall investigate the applicant and the proposed facility. The department must prescribe applicant, facility, and operating requirements to applicants and may deny the application in its discretion after review. A person exhibiting alligators in a circus or zoo or in a similar animal, reptile, or wildlife show at a place or location other than on a captive alligator propagation facility is exempt from the permit and fee requirements of this article.
(B) Upon approval of an application and payment of the permit fee, the department shall issue an alligator propagation facility permit.
(C) A valid permit shall expire twelve months after the date of issuance and may be renewed not more than forty-five days prior to expiration upon payment of a renewal fee.
(D) Alligator propagation facilities located on noncontiguous parcels of land must be permitted separately.
HISTORY: 2014 Act No. 159 (S.714), Section 1, eff April 14, 2014.