2021 Georgia Code
Title 27 - Game and Fish
Chapter 2 - Licenses, Permits, and Stamps Generally
Article 1 - Hunting, Trapping, or Fishing
§ 27-2-16. Commercial Quail Breeder Permits; Maintenance of Records by Holders; Selling and Transporting of Pen Raised Quail Generally
- It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of propagating quail for food, restocking, propagation, or other commercial purposes unless the quail are pen raised quail and unless the person has obtained a commercial quail breeder permit as provided in Code Section 27-2-23. For purposes of this Code section, the term "pen raised quail" means a quail that has been hatched from an egg laid by a quail confined in a pen or coop.
- Each person holding a commercial quail breeder permit shall keep records, in a suitably bound book, of all bird carcasses sold, to whom sold, and the number sold.
- It shall be unlawful to sell the carcass of any pen raised quail unless the carcass has been stamped with the following information:
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Editor's notes.
- In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, opinions under Ga. L. 1956, p. 48, as it read prior to revision by Ga. L. 1977, p. 396, § 1, are included in the annotations for this Code section.
Validity of regulations providing for alternate methods of identification.- Intent and purpose of subsection (c) is to provide a means of identifying carcass of pen-raised quail; therefore, the Game and Fish Commission (now Department of Natural Resources) can adopt regulations permitting use of wing clips or other devices to be attached to carcass of bird, so long as method utilized contains basic information required. 1958-59 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 172 (decided under Ga. L. 1956, p. 48).
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 35A Am. Jur. 2d, Fish, Game, and Wildlife Conservation, §§ 48, 51, 55 et seq.
C.J.S.- 36A C.J.S., Fish, §§ 28, 35. 38 C.J.S., Game; Conservation and Preservation of Wildlife, § 51 et seq.
