Georgia Code, Title 27, Chapter 2, Article 1 - Hunting, Trapping, or Fishing
- § 27-2-1 - Hunting, Trapping, or Fishing Without License or Permit Generally; Nonresidents
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, fish, trap, or possess any wildlife or feral hog without first procuring all of...
- § 27-2-2 - Issuance and Sale of Hunting, Fishing, and Trapping Licenses; Identification Required of Purchasers; Withdrawal of Agents' Authority to Sell Licenses
(a) Hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses shall be issued and sold by the department on forms containing such information as may be prescribed by...
- § 27-2-3 - Effective Periods of Hunting, Fishing, and Trapping Licenses Generally; Multiyear Licenses
(a) Except as otherwise specifically provided, all hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses, including without limitation commercial fishing and commercial fishing boat licenses issued pursuant...
- § 27-2-3.1 - Hunting Licenses; Sportsman's License; License Card Carrier Requirement; Creation of Lifetime Sportsman's Licenses.
(a) The requirements in this title for procuring any license or permit for noncommercial hunting and fishing privileges, except for hunting alligators, shall be...
- § 27-2-4 - Honorary Hunting and Fishing Licenses
(a) The department shall issue an honorary hunting and fishing license, which shall entitle a resident to hunt and fish in this state without...
- § 27-2-4.1 - Fishing License Reciprocity for Florida Residents Over 65 Years of Age
No fishing license shall be required for any Florida resident who is more than 65 years of age, to the extent that a reciprocal...
- § 27-2-4.2 - Courtesy Nonresident Fishing Licenses to Certain Paralyzed or Disabled Veterans
The department is authorized to issue a courtesy nonresident fishing license, without fee, to any person who is not a resident of this state...
- § 27-2-4.3 - Special Hunting Privileges for Young People With a Terminal Illness
(a) As used in this Code section, the term "terminal illness" means an incurable or irreversible condition with a corresponding life expectancy that does...
- § 27-2-4.4 - Special Turkey Hunting Season for Young and Mobility Impaired Hunters
(a) As used in this Code section, the term "mobility impaired person" means any person who has been verified by a doctor of medicine...
- § 27-2-5 - Required Hunter Education Courses
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person born on or after January 1, 1961, to procure a hunting license or to hunt by...
- § 27-2-6 - Trout License, Official Georgia Waterfowl License, Big Game License, and Alligator Hunting License
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person who has attained the age of 16 years to fish for or possess mountain trout or...
- § 27-2-7 - Powers of Department As to Making and Entering Into Agreements Relating to Hunting License Reciprocity
(a) The department is authorized to make and enter into agreements, from time to time, with the proper authorities of the States of Alabama,...
- § 27-2-8 - Commercial Fishing Boat Licenses
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in commercial fishing with a boat or vessel in the salt waters of this...
- § 27-2-9 - Taxidermist Licenses; Unlawful Acts and Omissions by Taxidermists
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of taxidermy or provide taxidermy services to anyone other than himself...
- § 27-2-10 - Commercial Alligator Farming Licenses
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in alligator farming unless such person has a valid commercial alligator farming license as...
- § 27-2-11 - Game-Holding Permits
It shall be unlawful for any person to hold or possess any game animal or game bird for the purpose of propagation or to...
- § 27-2-12 - Scientific Collecting Permits
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to take, possess, or transport any of the wildlife of this state, or the plumage, skin,...
- § 27-2-13 - Wildlife Exhibition Permits
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to keep, hold, or possess any wildlife in captivity for the purpose of display or exhibition...
- § 27-2-14 - (for Effective Date, See Note.) Liberation-Of-wildlife and Liberation-Of-domestic Fish Permits
It shall be unlawful for any person to liberate any wildlife within this state or to liberate domestic fish except into private ponds except...
- § 27-2-15 - Wildlife Storage Permits
It shall be unlawful for any person operating a grocery store, hotel, market, cold storage house, restaurant, or other commercial facility to receive for...
- § 27-2-16 - Commercial Quail Breeder Permits; Maintenance of Records by Holders; Selling and Transporting of Pen Raised Quail Generally
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of propagating quail for food, restocking, propagation, or other commercial purposes...
- § 27-2-17 - Falconry Permits; Duties, Permitted Acts, and Prohibitions Pertaining to Permit Holders
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to trap, take, transport, or possess raptors for falconry purposes unless such person possesses, in addition...
- § 27-2-18 - Permits to Kill Deer Causing Damage to Crops
The department shall be authorized to issue to a person who cultivates crops, who is immediately responsible for their cultivation, or who is the...
- § 27-2-19 - Wildlife Importation Permits
It shall be unlawful to import any wildlife other than fish, pen raised duck, pen raised turkey, and pen raised quail without obtaining, at...
- § 27-2-20 - Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp; Participation in Federal Migratory Bird Harvest Information Program
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person 16 years of age or older to hunt brant, ducks, geese, and swans in this state...
- § 27-2-20.1 - Required Participation in Saltwater Information Program
It shall be unlawful for any person required to obtain a fishing license as provided in Code Section 27-2-1 to fish in the salt...
- § 27-2-21 - Field and Retriever Trials; Permits; Hunting Licenses
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to conduct a field or retriever trial without first obtaining a permit, at no cost, from...
- § 27-2-22 - Wildlife Rehabilitation Permits
It shall be unlawful for any person to keep, hold, or possess in captivity any sick or injured wildlife, except fish, without first obtaining,...
- § 27-2-22.1 - Fox Trapping and Selling
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to trap and sell live fox without first procuring a commercial trapping license provided for in...
- § 27-2-23 - License, Permit, Tag, and Stamp Fees
Fees for licenses, permits, tags, and stamps required by this title shall be as follows: (1) Hunting licenses: (A) Resident hunting license Annual $...
- § 27-2-23.1 - Raccoon Fur Seller's License
(a) In addition to the fur dealers' licenses provided for in Code Section 27-2-23, the department shall issue a raccoon fur seller's license for...
- § 27-2-23.2 - Salt Water Fishing Guide Licenses; Fees; Reporting Requirements
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the occupation of salt water fishing guide without holding a valid annual salt...
- § 27-2-24 - Service of Process for Licensees, Permittees, and Applicants
All applications to the department for any license or permit, or license and permit, provided by this title shall designate an address in Georgia...
- § 27-2-25 - Revocation, Suspension, Denial, or Nonrenewal of License or Permits; Administrative and Judicial Review
(a) Upon a determination by the commissioner that a person has violated this title or any rule or regulation promulgated pursuant thereto, the commissioner...
- § 27-2-25.1 - Suspension of Hunting Privileges for Negligent Hunting; Procedures Following Hunting Accidents
(a) The General Assembly has heretofore found and declared that hunting is a privilege to be exercised only in accordance with the law granting...
- § 27-2-25.2 - Power to Suspend Licenses
The commissioner shall have the power to suspend any license required by this title when such license holder is not in compliance with a...
- § 27-2-26 - Rules and Regulations Regarding Revocation or Cancellation Procedures; Surrender of License, Stamp, or Permit After Revocation or Cancellation
(a) The board is authorized to provide by rule or regulation the procedure whereby the department may, pursuant to Code Section 27-2-25, revoke or...
- § 27-2-27 - Administrative Penalties in Lieu of Revocation, Suspension, Denial, or Nonrenewal
In addition to the authority granted in Code Sections 27-2-4 and 27-2-25 to revoke, suspend, deny, or refuse to renew any license or permit,...
- § 27-2-28 - Refusing Inspection of Identification or License; Making False Statements in Obtaining License or Permit; Counterfeiting or Alteration; Unlawful Collection of Funds
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person who is required to have on his person any license, permit, or stamp issued under this...
- § 27-2-29 - Free Fishing Days
Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the commissioner may designate not more than three days, which need not be consecutive, in each calendar...
- § 27-2-30 - Establishment of the Wildlife Endowment Fund; Limitations on Expenditures From the Fund
(a) The General Assembly recognizes that lifetime sportsman's license purchasers expect and are entitled to assurance that funds for such licenses will be used...
- § 27-2-31 - Wildlife Control Permits
(a) The department is authorized to issue wildlife control permits authorizing the permittee to trap, transport and release, or kill wildlife and feral hogs...
Last modified: October 14, 2016