41:09:04:02.06Eligibility

for bait dealers, agents, and employees. A bait dealer shall list, on the dealer's application, each employee or agent who will engage in trapping, transporting, delivering, raising, or seining bait taken from the waters of the state. No person other than one who is registered as an agent or an employee of a licensed bait dealer may exercise the privileges conveyed in the permit in accordance with § 41:09:04:02. The department may refuse to issue a bait dealer license to or amend the license of any bait dealer who employs an individual or has an agent exercising the aforementioned privileges if in the previous or current calendar year the individual or agent: (a) Had a bait dealer license suspended or revoked; or (b) Had been denied a bait dealer license. The period of ineligibility of a person to be employed by a bait dealer for a cause shall not exceed one year.

Source: 44 SDR 151, effective April 30, 2018; 47 SDR 27, effective September 15, 2020.