FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to revise the definition of professional dog trainer for the purposes of licensing by the Department of Game, Fish and Parks.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
     Section  1.  That § 41-6-78 be amended to read as follows:
     41-6-78.   The Department of Game, Fish and Parks may issue any resident, as defined by this title, a resident professional dog training license. The license permits the licensee to train or engage in the business of training hunting or field trial dogs when and where wild game is found. For purposes of this section title , a professional dog trainer is any person who trains or sells any breed of bird hunting dog for remuneration or who owns or trains more than four bird hunting dogs . The license shall be issued annually. No licensee may be allowed to train dogs on wild game birds from April fifteenth to July thirty-first, inclusive. The licensee shall comply with rules adopted pursuant to §   41-2-18 by the game, fish and parks commission to protect and perpetuate the wild game resources of the state. Such rules may limit the number of licenses issued and further restrict professional dog training on public lands. Failure to comply with such rules or the provisions of this section shall be is cause for revocation of license and nonissuance of future licenses. Any person who violates this section is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.

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