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RE: Being a hobbyist hurts herp industry

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Posted by: Calparsoni at Sun Nov 14 06:30:07 2010   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Calparsoni ]  
   

Here in Fla. in order to be a business (or to sell any offspring legally for that matter) you need a permit from the fish and game commission. One of the problems with this permit is that you basically throw your 4th amendment right to unreasonable search seizure out the window as one of the provisions of the permit is that fish and game can come in and "inspect' your facilities at anytime they please. They actually used this tactic to gain entrance to a persons home in the Ocala area that other agencies were trying inspect for suspected animal abuse. They could not get a search warrant so they used his fwc permit to sell birds and had fwc go in for them......thanks but no thanks.....if and when I decide to start trying to breed to the point that I am a business I will talk to lawyers about limiting their access to my property. But since I only keep a handful of reptiles for my own personal interest at this time, I prefer to keep my 4th amendment rights protecting me from unreasonable search and seizure thank you very much. Having met a couple of the prime axeholes who run around calling themselves fish and game officers at a cfhs meeting several years back did not help fwc's case in that matter either. I wouldn't want either one of them on my property. I used to maintain my license up til that point in case I did sell anything I let it lapse after that.

   

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