§ 70-4-204 — Cold storage of wildlife - Penalty for violations

(a) (1) No person, firm or corporation shall place in cold storage at any one (1) time more than two days' bag or creel limit of any wild animals, wild birds, wild fowl, or game fish. (2) No person shall place in commercial cold storage any wild animals, wild birds, wild fowl, or game fish without first filling out and filing with the storage company an affidavit stating that the same has been lawfully killed or caught and is stored for the affiant's own use and benefit and not for sale. No person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of cold storage shall receive any wild animals, wild birds, wild fowl or game fish, unless such affidavit has been made by the person storing and delivering to the storage concern. The storage concern shall post the affidavit upon a book kept for this purpose, which book shall be open at all times to the executive director or officers of the wildlife resources agency. (b) A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor. Each wild bird, wild animal, or wild fowl or game fish stored in violation of this section is a separate offense.

Legislative History

Acts 1951, ch. 115, § 61 (Williams, § 5178.90); 1959, ch. 145, § 4; impl. am. Acts 1974, ch. 481, §§ 6, 7; 1974, ch. 481, § 21; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 51-505; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.