Tennessee § 70-2-106 Agents for issuance and sale of licenses, permits, stamps, tags, or privileges - Bond - Fees of items - Fees of agents - Conservation stamps

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§ 70-2-106 — Agents for issuance and sale of licenses, permits, stamps, tags, or privileges - Bond - Fees of items - Fees of agents - Conservation stamps

Tennessee § 70-2-106

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Tenn. Code Ann. § 70-2-106 (2026).

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(a)(1) All hunting and fishing licenses, other licenses, permits, tags, registrations or privileges as specified by the agency and provided for in this title or in title 69, chapter 9, may be issued and sold by the county clerk of each county, or by any other person, firm or corporation designated and appointed by the executive director.

(2)Any appointed agent, before being furnished with items to sell, may be required to execute a bond in such sum as the executive director shall require, with some solvent surety company qualified to do business in the state, as surety on sums due, conditioned to faithfully perform the duties imposed upon such appointed agent and to faithfully account for and promptly pay over to the executive director any and all sums due to the wildlife resources agenc

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(a) (1) All hunting and fishing licenses, other licenses, permits, tags, registrations or privileges as specified by the agency and provided for in this title or in title 69, chapter 9, may be issued and sold by the county clerk of each county, or by any other person, firm or corporation designated and appointed by the executive director. (2) Any appointed agent, before being furnished with items to sell, may be required to execute a bond in such sum as the executive director shall require, with some solvent surety company qualified to do business in the state, as surety on sums due, conditioned to faithfully perform the duties imposed upon such appointed agent and to faithfully account for and promptly pay over to the executive director any and all sums due to the wildlife resources agency. (b) (1) The county clerk of each county or any other person, firm or corporation designated and appointed by the executive director as such agent is entitled to collect from the purchaser of all licenses, permits, stamps, tags, registrations or other privileges sold, as specified by the agency, a flat fee of one dollar ($1.00) on any one (1) annual license, permit, stamp, tag, registration or other privilege sold, as specified by the agency, and fifty cents (50¢) on any one (1) license, permit, stamp, tag, registration and other privilege, as specified by the agency, which is valid for a specified day or number of days. Alternatively, the executive director is authorized to establish an agent fee, through competitive bidding contract procedures, for the successful bidder to sell licenses, permits, stamps, tags, registrations and other privileges as specified by the agency, over the telephone or through other electronic means. (2) The executive director, the county clerk of each county, and the agents designated and appointed by the executive director as such agents for the sale of licenses, shall offer for sale conservation stamps, including, but not limited to, full-color waterfowl stamps for a cost of ten dollars ($10.00) each. Any revenues from such stamps over and above the cost of producing and distributing the stamps shall go into habitat improvement. Possession of a stamp is voluntary and is not required in order to hunt, fish or trap. (3) The general assembly shall review and reauthorize the conservation stamp program after it has been in operation for three (3) years.

Legislative History

Acts 1951, ch. 115, § 9 (Williams, § 5178.38); 1955, ch. 152, § 8; 1957, ch. 221, § 2; 1969, ch. 84, § 1; 1973, ch. 328, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1974, ch. 481, §§ 6, 7; Acts 1974, ch. 481, § 21; 1975, ch. 282, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 22, 36; Acts 1981, ch. 359, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 51-228; Acts 1985, ch. 350, § 10; 1989, ch. 18, § 1; 1989, ch. 486, § 1; 1998, ch. 1023, §§ 1, 2; 1999, ch. 102, §§ 2 - 4.