O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 27-3-60 (2019)

Required commercial trapping license

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in business as a trapper unless that person or his agent has a current valid commercial trapping license issued by the department, as provided in Code Section

(b) A landowner or a member of his immediate family desiring to trap on the landowner’s private property may obtain a license for such purpose annually from the department at no charge.

History

(Ga. L. 1977, p. 1270, § 4.)

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Editor’s notes. - In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, opinions under Ga. L. 1956, p. 590, as it read prior to revision by Ga. L. 1977, p. 1270, § 4, are included in the annotations for this Code section.

Disabled veteran’s license exemption is from business and occupational taxes and is not applicable to regulatory licenses such as hunting or fishing. 1962 Op. Att’y Gen. p. 248 (decided under Ga. L. 1956, p. 590).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 35A Am. Jur. 2d, Fish, Game, and Wildlife Conservation, §§ 42, 43, 51, 59 et seq.

C.J.S. - 38 C.J.S., Game; Conservation and Preservation of Wildlife, § 52.