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finished product but not resold as a fur or pelt;

(3) A tanner or taxidermist who possesses any fur or pelt legally owned by
another person and which the tanner or taxidermist temporarily is holding solely for the
purpose of processing;

(4) A person who sells or possesses to sell any fur or pelt from any
fur-bearing mammal or nutria legally taken from the wild by that person; and

(5) Any person who butchers a deer for another person and who retains
the hide or fur of the deer because the other person did not want or take the hide or

fur.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Extraneous hyphen in § 10-506(f) of the Natural Resources Article.

Occurred: Ch. 4, Acts of 1973, First Special Session. Correction by the
Michie Company in the 1989 Supplement to the 1983 Replacement Volume
of the Natural Resources Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland is
validated by this Act.

10-507.

(a) Each fur dealer shall keep a ledger on a form provided by the Department
which includes the name, address, and current hunting, trapping, fur dealer's,
taxidermist and fur tanner's, or game husbandry license number of each person from
whom any fur was purchased or received within or outside the State, the date of
purchase or receipt, the quantity of each species of furs purchased, and the country,
state, and county or political subdivision where the furs were taken, and Identifies any
appropriate official game or fur possession tag number or bill of sale. The ledger must
state the final disposition of the furs and the date disposed of. Disposition includes
selling, transporting, shipping, storing, or otherwise using or possessing the furs. The
licensee [shall also] ALSO SHALL include the same information with regard to any
wildlife taken from the wild by the licensee. The ledger shall cover every transaction
from date of issuance of the fur dealer's license until date of expiration and shall be
kept up-to-date. In addition to any other penalty provided by this subtitle, any person
convicted of failing to maintain and keep up-to-date a ledger as required by this
subsection or of making false entries shall have the license revoked for a period of at
least 1 year and not exceeding 5 years.

10-508.

A fur dealer shall carry the license on [his] THE DEALER'S person and shall
exhibit [it] THE LICENSE upon demand. The licensee shall allow any Natural
Resources Police officer and any law enforcement officer to enter and inspect the
premises where operations are being carried on and to inspect records at any
reasonable hour.

10-509.

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