1998 Florida Code
TITLE XXVIII NATURAL RESOURCES; CONSERVATION, RECLAMATION, AND USE
Chapter 372 Wildlife  
372.66   License required for fur and hide dealers.

372.66  License required for fur and hide dealers.--

(1)  It is unlawful for any person to engage in the business of a dealer or buyer in alligator skins or green or dried furs in the state or purchase such skins within the state until such person has been licensed as herein provided.

(2)  Any resident dealer or buyer who solicits business through the mails, or by advertising, or who travels to buy or employs or has other agents or buyers, shall be deemed a resident state dealer and shall be required to pay a license fee of $100 per annum and shall pay an agent's license fee of $5 per annum for each agent or traveling buyer employed by or buying for such licensed state dealer.

(3)  Any resident dealer or buyer who does not solicit by mail, advertise, travel to buy or employ or have agents or traveling buyers shall be deemed a resident local dealer and shall be required to pay a license fee of $10 per annum.

(4)  A nonresident dealer or buyer shall be required to pay a license fee of $500 per annum and shall pay a license fee of $100 per annum for each agent, resident buyer or traveling buyer employed by or buying for or acting as agent for such nonresident buyer.

(5)  All agents' licenses shall be applied for by, and issued to, a resident state dealer or nonresident dealer and shall show name and residence of such agent and shall be in possession of such agent at all times when engaged in buying furs or hides. Application for such licenses shall be made to the Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission on blanks furnished by it.

(6)  All dealers and buyers shall forward to the Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission each 2 weeks during open season a report showing number and kind of hides bought and name of trapper from whom bought and the trapper's license number, or if trapper is exempt from license under any of the provisions of this chapter, such report shall show the nature of such exemption. No common carrier shall knowingly ship or transport or receive for transportation any hides or furs unless such shipments have marked thereon name of shipper and the number of her or his fur-animal license or fur dealer's license.

History.--s. 61, ch. 13644, 1929; CGL 1936 Supp. 1977(61); s. 581, ch. 95-148.