PURPOSE: This amendment clarifies that permits to hold wildlife in confinement will only be issued for those species of Class I wildlife listed for each permit type on the Approved Confined Wildlife Species List, removes redundant references to bullfrogs and green frogs, and removes permit exemptions for elk defined as livestock from this rule so it can be relocated to 3 CSR 10-9.250 and 9.352.
Class I wildlife shall include birds (including ring-necked pheasants and gray partridge) native to the continental United States, and those species of mammals (except bison and those listed in 3 CSR 10-9.240 and 3 CSR 10-9.250) and nonvenomous reptiles and amphibians native to Missouri. Permits to hold Class I wildlife in confinement will only be issued for the specific species of wildlife approved for each permit type on the Approved Confined Wildlife Species List in 3 CSR 10-9.105.
3 CSR 10-9.230