Alaska Administrative Code. Title 5. Fish and Game. Part 3. Game. Chapter 92. Statewide Provisions. Article 1. General. 5 AAC 92.002. Liability for violations. Article 7. Use of Game. 5 AAC 92.200. Purchase and sale of game.
Country of Origin:
United States - Alaska
Agency of Origin:
Fish and Game
National Citation:
Alaska Admin. Code tit. 5, § 92.002; 92.200
Agency Citation:
Printable Version
5 AK ADC 92.002; 92.200
Last checked by Web Center Staff:
07/2011
Summary:
This Alaska regulation relates to the purchase or sale of game or parts of game. Liability for violation is provided in Section 92.002.
Material in Full:
Article 1. General. 5 AAC 92.002. Liability for violations.
Unless otherwise provided in 5 AAC 84 - 5 AAC 92, or in AS 16, a person who violates a provision of 5 AAC 84 - 5 AAC 92 is strictly liable for the offense, regardless of that person's intent.
(Eff. 7/5/85, Register 95; am 8/20/89, Register 111)
AUTHORITY: AS 16.05.255
Article 7. Use of Game. 5 AAC 92.200. Purchase and sale of game.
(a) In accordance with AS 16.05.920(a) and 16.05.930(e), the purchase, sale, or barter of game or any part of game is permitted except as provided in this section.
(b) Except as provided in 5 AAC 92.031, a person may not purchase, sell, barter, advertise, or otherwise offer for sale or barter:
(1) any part of a brown bear, except an article of handicraft made from the fur of a brown bear;
(2) a big game trophy, or a black bear trophy of any kind;
(3) a big game animal skull, except the skull of a black bear, wolf, or wolverine, or a horn or antler that is still attached to any part of the skull;
(4) the antler of a caribou taken in Unit 23, unless the antler is a naturally shed antler or has been made into an article of handicraft;
(5) unsealed marten taken in Units 1 - 7, and 15, except as provided in 5 AAC 92.170(a);
(6) unsealed beaver taken in Units 1 - 11 and Units 13 - 17;
(7) unsealed land otter, lynx, wolf, or wolverine;
(8) the meat of big game and small game, except hares and rabbits; however, caribou may be bartered in Units 22 - 26, but may not be transported or exported from those units;
(9) the gallbladder of a bear.
(c) Notwithstanding (b)(2) and (b)(3) of this section, a licensed taxidermist, estate executor, or bankruptcy referee, may sell a skin or trophy by permit issued under 5 AAC 92.031, and the state will, in its discretion, sell a skin or trophy as excess property. A person may purchase and possess an animal skin or trophy sold under this subsection. However, no person may resell a skin or trophy purchased from a seller under this subsection.
(d) A person who engages in fur dealing, as defined in AS 16.05.940, and who purchases or acquires, through consignment or barter, the raw skin of a furbearer or fur animal, shall report the transaction to the department on a form provided for this purpose, within 30 days after the last day of the month during which the transaction occurred.
(Eff. 7/5/85, Register 95; am 11/1/85, Register 96; am 8/8/87, Register 103; am 7/14/88, Register 107; am 8/20/89, Register 111; am 8/10/91, Register 119; am 5/5/93, Register 126; readopt 5/13/93, Register 126; am 7/1/98, Register 146; am 7/1/2002, Register 162; am 7/1/2003, Register 166; am 7/1/2004, Register 170; am 12/30/2004, Register 172; am 7/1/2010, Register 194)
AUTHORITY: AS 16.05.255, AS 16.05.258, AS 16.05.920, AS 16.05.930
EDITORS NOTES.
At its November 9 - 11, 1992, January 19 - 28, 1993 meeting, the Board of Game readopted 5 AAC 92.200 in its entirety, without change, under ch. 1, SSSLA 1992 (the 1992 subsistence law), which repealed and reenacted AS 16.05.258.
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