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title: O.C.G.A. § 12-6-175. Transporting, carrying, or conveying protected species without tag and written document.
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# O.C.G.A. § 12-6-175. Transporting, carrying, or conveying protected species without tag and written document.

No person within this state shall transport, carry, or otherwise convey any protected species from the land of another unless each shipment thereof has affixed thereto a tag supplied by the department showing that the person so transporting, carrying, or conveying such protected species has removed such specimen from the private lands of another person with the permission of such other person and has a written document in his possession evidencing such permission and further evidencing that such specimen has not been sold in violation of Code Section 12-6-174.

## History

Ga. L. 1973, p. 333, § 6.