5 AAC 92.031 - [Effective 7/1/2025] Permit for selling skins, skulls, and trophies

(a) A licensed taxidermist may sell an unclaimed finished skin or trophy under a permit issued by the department after the finished skin or trophy has been held unclaimed for 60 days, and after the taxidermist sends notice of intent to sell, by registered mail at least 15 days before the sale, to the last known address of the person who ordered the taxidermy work.

(b) A court appointed or duly authorized estate executor, or a referee in a bankruptcy, may sell a game skin or trophy in a bankruptcy or probate action if that person first obtains a permit from the department.

(c) Repealed 7/1/2008.

(d) Repealed 7/1/2008.

(e) Repealed 7/1/2008.

(f) A person who has obtained ownership of a big game trophy as a result of a divorce may sell that big game trophy only if that person first obtains a permit from the department after providing the department with a list of the big game trophies being sold and a divorce decree documenting ownership.

(g) A person may sell, advertise, or otherwise offer for sale a skull or hide with claws attached of a brown bear harvested in an area where the bag limit is two brown bears per regulatory year only after first obtaining a permit from the department. Any advertisement must include the permit number assigned by the department, and the department will permanently mark all hides and skulls intended for sale. All bears sold under this permit must be reported to the department within the time frame specified on the permit.

(h) A person may sell a lawfully harvested and prepared big game trophy if that person First obtains a permit from the department.

Notes

5 AAC 92.031

Eff. 7/5/85, Register 95; am 5/10/2006, Register 178; am 7/1/2006, Register 178; am 9/1/2006, Register 179; am 7/1/2008, Register 186; am 7/1/2012, Register 202; am 7/1/2018, Register 226, July 2018; am 6/23/2022, Register 242, July 2022; am 7/1/2025, Register 254, July 2025

Authority: AS 16.05.255

AS 16.05.920