Any person holding a game propagation permit may engage in the rearing within an enclosure of any wild birds, game quadrupeds, or domestic game, to be disposed of for purposes of propagation under any rules and regulations as shall be made, from time to time, by the director, or, in the case of domestic game, for liberation at field trials or upon game preserves. Artificially propagated domestic game shall be tagged for identification with tags or seals supplied, at cost, to the permittee by the department, before being disposed of by the permittee. Game so tagged may be had in possession, transported, bought, and sold at any season of the year.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 20-17-1
Propagation and raising of game birds and animals
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Della Valle v. United States Dept. of Agriculture (1986)
Most recently applied in Della Valle v. United States Dept. of Agriculture (January 1986)
P.L. 1981, ch. 197, § 3.
Official source: Rhode Island General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Rhode Island statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.