Section 437:1 License Required. - New Hampshire Statutes

No person, firm, corporation or other entity shall engage in the business of transferring with or without a fee or donation required, to the public, live animals or birds customarily used as household pets unless the premises on which they are housed, harbored or displayed for such purposes are duly licensed and inspected by the department of agriculture, markets, and food of the state of New Hampshire. This section shall also apply to commercial kennels and to any person, firm, corporation, or other entity engaged in the business of, including activity as a broker, transferring live animals or birds customarily used as household pets for transfer to the public, with or without a fee required, and whether or not a physical facility is owned by the licensee in New Hampshire when transfer to the final owner occurs within New Hampshire. These provisions shall not effect the provisions of RSA 437:7.

Source. 1985, 72:1. 1995, 130:4, eff. July 23, 1995. 2004, 107:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2005. 2007, 160:1, eff. Aug. 17, 2007. 2009, 296:2, eff. Sept. 29, 2009.