The Animal Industry Board shall, by rules promulgated pursuant to chapter 1-26, regulate the breeding, raising, marketing, and transportation of any captive nondomestic animal of the mammalia class and the products thereof which is allowed in the state pursuant to § 40-3-25. The rules may provide the following:

1. (1) Require a permit of any person possessing such animals;
2. (2) Prescribe the application procedures for a permit;
3. (3) Require a legal description of the premises where such animals are held;
4. (4) Require an inventory of such animals at the time of application and require reports to provide for the continual accounting of such animals and their offspring;
5. (5) Require the marking of such animals for identification purposes;
6. (6) Require facilities and procedures to ensure such animals to be confined from free-roaming animals;
7. (7) Establish facility requirements and procedures for identification and inspection of such animals by the board;
8. (8) Establish the grounds for denial, suspension, or revocation of a permit and for the seizure and disposition of any unlawfully held animal; and
9. (9) Establish a fee for a permit which may not exceed one hundred dollars.

Source: SL 1993, ch 311 , § 4.