2007 Minnesota Code
Chapters 97 - 102 Game and Fish
Chapter 97A Game and Fish
Section 97A.505 POSSESSION OF WILD ANIMALS.

97A.505 POSSESSION OF WILD ANIMALS.
Subdivision 1.[Repealed, 1987 c 149 art 1 s 54]
Subd. 2. Possession of unlawful animals brought into the state prohibited. A person may
not possess a wild animal that has been unlawfully taken, bought, sold, or possessed outside
the state, or unlawfully shipped into the state.
Subd. 3.[Repealed, 1987 c 149 art 1 s 54]
Subd. 3a. Transportation of animals into state. Wild animals lawfully taken, bought,
sold, or possessed outside the state may be brought or shipped into the state unless otherwise
provided by law.
Subd. 3b. Wild animals taken on Red Lake Reservation lands within the Northwest
Angle. Wild animals taken and tagged in accordance with the Red Lake Band's Conservation
Code on the Red Lake Reservation lands in Minnesota north of the 49th parallel shall be
considered lawfully taken and possessed under state law.
Subd. 4. Storage of protected wild animals. A person that stores protected wild animals for
others must plainly mark the package, in ink, with the name and address of the owner, the license
number of the person taking the animal, and the number and species in the package.
Subd. 5. License not required for animals acquired by gift. Lawfully taken protected wild
animals may be transferred by gift. A person is not required to have a license to possess and
transport protected wild animals acquired by gift.
Subd. 6.[Repealed, 1987 c 149 art 1 s 54]
Subd. 7. Exceptions to this section. This section does not apply to mounted specimens of
wild animals, antlers, tanned hides, and dressed furs lawfully taken.
Subd. 8. Importation of hunter-harvested cervidae. Importation into Minnesota of
hunter-harvested cervidae carcasses from known chronic wasting disease endemic areas, as
determined by the Board of Animal Health, is prohibited except for cut and wrapped meat,
quarters or other portions of meat with no part of the spinal column or head attached, antlers,
hides, teeth, finished taxidermy mounts, and antlers attached to skull caps that are cleaned of all
brain tissue. Hunter-harvested cervidae carcasses taken from chronic wasting disease endemic
areas outside of Minnesota may be transported on a direct route through the state by nonresidents.
Subd. 9. Possession of live cervidae. A person may not possess live cervidae, except as
authorized in sections 17.452, 35.153, and 35.155 or 97A.401.
History: 1986 c 386 art 1 s 72; 1987 c 149 art 1 s 34,35; 1993 c 231 s 30,31; 2000 c 406 s
1; 2003 c 128 art 1 s 75,76; 2004 c 215 s 16; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 1 s 97; 2007 c 131 art 1 s 31