§ 20-37-3 - Special permit. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 20-37-3

   § 20-37-3  Special permit. – No person shall buy, sell, offer for sale, store, transport, import, export, orotherwise traffic in any animal or plant or any part of any animal or plantwhether living, dead, processed, manufactured, preserved, or raw if the animalor plant has been declared to be an endangered species by either the UnitedStates secretaries of the interior or commerce or the director of the RhodeIsland department of environmental management. The only exception to theseprohibitions shall be for purposes of scientific research or educationaldisplay either of which must be done by or under the formal supervision of alegitimate college or university and then only upon the issuance of a specialpermit for each individual excepted species. The permit may be issued by thedirector of environmental management. The permit will be denied by thedirector, if in his or her opinion issuance of the permit would not be entirelyjustified or entirely in the best interests of preservation and protection ofthe species involved. Under no circumstances will a permit be granted forexception if commercial considerations are involved in any way.