Commercial Establishments

PURPOSE: This rule authorizes retail establishments to buy and sell certain forms of wildlife and wildlife products. Resident commercial establishments, when possession is accompanied by a valid invoice, or bill of sale, may buy, possess, transport, and sell legally purchased and plainly marked dressed or processed pheasants, exotic partridges, quail, game bird eggs, deer except white-tailed and mule deer, elk that are exempt from the permit requirements prescribed by this Code, moose, caribou, wild boar, live bait and frogs, and fish. Skinned furbearer carcasses and fish eggs may be sold at retail only. Resident commercial establishments may also obtain, possess, transport, and sell fish acquired from the holder of a Fish Utilization Permit when possession is accompanied by a dated written statement from the permit holder as specified in AUTHORITY: sections 40 and 45 of Art. IV, Mo. Const. and section 252.040, RSMo 2016.* Original rule filed Aug. 16, 1973, effective Dec. 31, 1973. Amended: Filed July 20, 1977, effective Jan. 1, 1978. Amended: Filed Aug. 4, 1978, effective Jan. 1, 1979. Amended: Filed July 31, 1981, effective Jan. 1, 1982. Amended: Filed Aug. 7, 1986, effective Jan. 1, 1987. Amended: Filed May 10, 1990, effective Jan. 1, 1991. Amended: Filed May 6, 1998, effective March 1, 1999. Amended: Filed May 9, 2002, effective March 1, 2003. Amended: Filed March 12, 2010, effective Aug. 30, 2010. Amended: Filed March 1, 2019, effective July 30, 2019. Amended: Filed Aug. 26, 2019, effective Feb. 29, 2020. Amended: Filed March 2, 2020, effective Aug. 30, 2020. *Original authority: 252.040, RSMo 1945, amended 1989. Op. Atty. Gen. No. 32, Geekie, 5-23-54. The state of Missouri extends its ownership or control of wildlife not only to that found or reduced to possession within this state, but also to that which may be imported hereto, and the Conservation Commission may lawfully require persons engaged in retail merchandising of fish to obtain a permit even though such fish may have been lawfully acquired from sources outside the state of Missouri.