§117.  Possession limits; game birds; transportation of game birds; tags

A.  A licensee may have in his personal possession anywhere during the open season the kinds of migratory and resident game birds permitted by law or commission regulation to be taken.  However, no one person shall have in his possession at any one time or anywhere more than the number of such game birds which he may be lawfully entitled to take in two days.  Such fact is prima facie evidence of violation of this Chapter.  No licensee shall transport, cause to be transported, attempt to transport, or tender or deliver for transportation to another person or any agent thereof, nor shall any of them accept for transportation or transport any game birds beyond the limits of the state without a special permit issued by the secretary.  However, a nonresident licensee may take with him beyond the limits of the state, tagged as provided for in this Section, an aggregate of no more of any kind of such game birds than the licensee may lawfully take in two days.  No common carrier or agent thereof shall receive for transportation or transport any migratory or resident game birds unless the same or the package, container, or receptacle, open or closed, containing the game birds, has thereon or attached thereto a tag or tags having the actual signature and license number of the licensee who took the same, the number and species of the birds, the date and place taken, the name of the consignor and of the consignee, and the initial points of shipment and ultimate destination.  

B.  No person shall attach to any such game bird, or to any package, container, or receptacle containing it, a tag which to his knowledge is false in the statement of any particulars in this section required to be set forth thereon, nor have in his possession any such game birds or any such package to which is attached any tag which to his knowledge is false in any of the particulars aforesaid.  No person shall tender or deliver to another person for transportation within or beyond the borders of this state any migratory or resident game birds to which, or to the package, container, or receptacle which contains the same, there is attached a tag as aforesaid, which to the knowledge of that person is false in any of the particulars in this section required to be stated thereon.  

Amended by Acts 1974, No. 717, §1; Acts 1981, No. 736, §1.