The following persons are not required to obtain the license provided for in Section 50-11-2470:
- (1) a person who acquires not more than five furs, pelts, hides, or whole animals for his own personal use during one season and not for barter, exchange, or sale;
- (2) a person licensed under Section 50-11-2475 as a processor;
- (3) a taxidermist who possesses a fur, pelt, hide, or whole furbearing animal legally owned by another person which he is holding temporarily solely for the purposes of processing;
- (4) a person acquiring furbearing animal carcasses without hides;
- (5) a person who owns a fox hunting enclosure and who is permitted annually by the department to purchase live foxes for release into his pen. The foxes must be obtained from a South Carolina licensed commercial trapper and may be obtained only if the foxes were taken lawfully in this State. Record of fox purchases or transfers must be reported annually on forms provided by the department.