Wyo. Code R. 040-0001-30
Effective Date: 08/17/2017 to 08/16/2017
Rule Type: Expired Emergency Rules & Regulations
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Section 1. Authority. This regulation is promulgated under authority of W.S. Wyoming Statutes § 23-1-102, W.S. § 23-1-302, W.S. § 23-2-304, § 23-3-401, § 23-6-111 and W.S. § 23-6-207.
Section 2. Regulation and Effective Date. The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission hereby adopts the following regulation governing fur dealers. This regulation shall remain in effect until modified or repealed by the Commission.
Section 3. Definitions. For the purpose of this regulation, definitions shall be as set forth in Title 23, Wyoming Statutes.
Section 42. Application for License. Persons desiring to operate as a fur dealer shall make application on a form provided by the Department and submit the application and proper fee to a game warden in the area where the fur dealer's principal office shall be located. In the case of a nonresident fur dealer, the application and fee shall be submitted to the Department's Headquarters Office, License Sales and Accounting Section.
Section 53. General Operation. A licensed fur dealer may employ persons who buy and sell hides and raw furs for the licensed fur dealer. Persons employed by a licensed fur dealer shall, upon request of any Department law enforcement personnel, immediately provide provided said persons can immediately exhibit proof when requested by a Department law enforcement officer that they are employees of a licensed fur dealer and they also can exhibit a copy of the fur dealer's license.
(a) Fur dealers shall maintain current, complete, legible and accurate written records on forms provided by the Department of all hides and raw furs purchased, sold or transferred from within or without outside the State. The records shall be entered on forms provided by the Department and shall include names and addresses of persons from whom hides and raw furs were purchased, sold or transferred, including the date of transaction, tag numbers attached to the raw furs, the furbearing animal trapping license number of the person who trapped the furs of furbearing animals and the fur dealer's license number for raw furs and/or or hides which are purchased from another fur dealer. The records shall include all transactions conducted under the authority of the licensed fur dealer made by their employees. The records shall be kept at the fur dealer's place of business. One copy of the records shall be submitted to the game warden in the area where the principal office of the fur dealer is located by January 15 following the calendar year for which the license had been issued. Nonresident fur dealers shall submit a copy of their records to the Department's Headquarters Office, License ~~Sales and Accounting~~ Section by January 15 following the calendar year for which the license had been issued.
(b) Any person issued a license under this regulation shall, during the term of the license and for a period of sixty (60) days after expiration of the fur dealer's license, allow inspection of records, raw furs and hides by Department enforcement personnel during reasonable hours.
(a) A fur dealer license may be revoked by the Commission for failure to abide by this regulation.
(b) Any revocation of a fur dealer license ~~shall~~ may be subject to a contested case proceedings appealed in accordance with Wyoming Game and Fish Commission Regulation, Chapter 27, Rules of Practice Governing Contested Cases Before the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission, revised as of January 19, 1982, and which does not include any later amendments or editions of the incorporated matter.
~~Section 8. Violation of Commission Regulations. Failure to abide by the provisions of this regulation shall be punishable as provided by Wyoming statutes for violation of Commission regulations.~~
~~Section 9. Savings Clause. If any provision of this regulation is held to be illegal or unconstitutional, such a ruling shall not affect other provisions of this regulation which can be given effect without the illegal or unconstitutional provision; and, to this end, the provisions of this regulation are severable.~~
WYOMING GAME AND FISH COMMISSION
By: ~~Tracy Hunt~~Keith Culver, President
Dated: ~~October 25, 1999~~November 14, 2017