HB52: Natural Resources – Wildlife Trafficking Prevention

Legislative Summary

Prohibiting a person from purchasing, selling, offering for sale, or possessing with the intent to sell parts or products of certain animal species under certain circumstances, subject to certain exceptions; requiring that fines and restitution imposed under the Act be credited to the Department of Natural Resources for the benefit of the State Wildlife Management and Protection Fund to be used for the preservation of threatened or endangered species; providing increasing penalties for repeated violations of the Act; etc.