70-2-107 - Date of issuance of license or permit Duration Penalty for violations. - Tennessee Statutes

70-2-107. Date of issuance of license or permit Duration Penalty for violations.

(a)  Licenses and permits required under this and any other law relating to wildlife shall be dated the true date of issue. All annual sport licenses shall be issued for the year beginning March 1 and ending the last day of February of the following year, both inclusive.

(b)  A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.

(c)  In addition to the annual licenses authorized by subsection (a), the agency is authorized to issue any hunting, fishing or trapping license for periods exceeding one (1) year.

[Acts 1951, ch. 115, § 13; 1953, ch. 255, §§ 1, 2 (Williams, §§ 5178.42, 5178.45); 1957, ch. 323, §§ 5, 6; 1979, ch. 243, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 51-229; Acts 1990, ch. 981, § 4; 1999, ch. 102, § 5; 2005, ch. 360, § 1.]