41:09:11:02Definitions.

As used in this chapter: (1) "Taxidermist" means a person who engages in the art, business, or operation of preserving or mounting, in a lifelike state, any bird, animal, or fish, or any part thereof, that does not belong to the person. The term does not include a person engaged in the business of mass producing artificial parts of wild animals; (2) "Customer" means a person who submits a bird, animal, or fish, or any part thereof, to a taxidermist and that the taxidermist accepts for the purpose of preserving or mounting in a lifelike state. The customer may or may not be the person who caught or killed the specimen; (3) "Specimen" means any bird, animal, or fish, or part thereof, that has been submitted by a customer to a taxidermist for the purpose of preserving or mounting in a lifelike state.

Source: 30 SDR 21, effective August 25, 2003; 47 SDR 27, effective September 15, 2020.