(a)

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 70-2-106

  • Agency: means the wildlife resources agency. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Executive director: means the executive director of the wildlife resources agency. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
  • Fish: means all species of trout, salmon, walleye, northern pike, bass, crappie, bluegill, catfish, perch, sunfish, drum, carp, sucker, shad, minnow, and such other species of fish that are presently found in the state or may be introduced or transplanted into this state for consumptive or nonconsumptive use. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
  • Fishing: means any effort made to take, kill, injure, capture, or catch any fish and every act of assistance in any effort. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
  • Hunting: means chasing, driving, flushing, attracting, pursuing, worrying, following after or on the trail of, searching for, trapping, shooting at, stalking, or lying in wait for, any wildlife, whether or not such wildlife is then or subsequently captured, killed, taken, or wounded and every act of assistance to any other person, but "hunting" does not include stalking, attracting, searching for, or lying in wait for, wildlife by an unarmed person solely for the purpose of watching wildlife or taking pictures of wildlife. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
  • Person: means an individual, association, partnership, or corporation. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
  • Possession: means both actual and constructive possession, and any control of the object or objects referred to. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
  • Sell: includes the offering or possessing for sale, bartering, exchanging or trading. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Wildlife: means wild vertebrates, mollusks, crustaceans, and fish. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
(1) All hunting and fishing licenses, other licenses, permits, tags, registrations or privileges as specified by the agency and provided for in this title or in title 69, chapter 9, may be issued and sold by the county clerk of each county, or by any other person, firm or corporation designated and appointed by the executive director.
(2) Any appointed agent, before being furnished with items to sell, may be required to execute a bond in such sum as the executive director shall require, with some solvent surety company qualified to do business in the state, as surety on sums due, conditioned to faithfully perform the duties imposed upon such appointed agent and to faithfully account for and promptly pay over to the executive director any and all sums due to the wildlife resources agency.
(b)

(1) The county clerk of each county or any other person, firm or corporation designated and appointed by the executive director as such agent is entitled to collect from the purchaser of all licenses, permits, stamps, tags, registrations or other privileges sold, as specified by the agency, a flat fee of one dollar ($1.00) on any one (1) annual license, permit, stamp, tag, registration or other privilege sold, as specified by the agency, and fifty cents (50¢) on any one (1) license, permit, stamp, tag, registration and other privilege, as specified by the agency, which is valid for a specified day or number of days. Alternatively, the executive director is authorized to establish an agent fee, through competitive bidding contract procedures, for the successful bidder to sell licenses, permits, stamps, tags, registrations and other privileges as specified by the agency, over the telephone or through other electronic means.
(2) The executive director, the county clerk of each county, and the agents designated and appointed by the executive director as such agents for the sale of licenses, shall offer for sale conservation stamps, including, but not limited to, full-color waterfowl stamps for a cost of ten dollars ($10.00) each. Any revenues from such stamps over and above the cost of producing and distributing the stamps shall go into habitat improvement. Possession of a stamp is voluntary and is not required in order to hunt, fish or trap.
(3) The general assembly shall review and reauthorize the conservation stamp program after it has been in operation for three (3) years.
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