Happy Holidays, I am a licensed Taxidermist and have never taken on any wholesale work before. I have always been busy enough without it. I have a friend who has his own shop and wants me do do some of his birds for him. My question is this, He has taken the birds in from his customers and signed them into his shop like you normally would. What requirements do I have to fulfill to pick the birds up at his shop and take them to my shop to mount them?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Jon
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Only the location need be changed. Depends on your state law. Disposition record requirements vary. Technically, if you do the mounting, you do the billing. Charges back to the other taxi constitute a "sale". I have no clue how most wholesalers handle the hand-offs, but I don't know of any reference to that under the 50 CFR's. I would imagine that as long as the birds were tagged with the proper record data, it wouldn't matter where they were housed, so long as you held the Federal license. The disposition would change, since the taxi that did intake would no longer have the birds in inventory. I would check with a local CO or Fed agent before starting. (Interpretations vary between agents too, what mine would say may vary from your Fed's opinion.)
when you pick up a bird to do for wholesale work, the taxidermist that originally took the bird in from his client should sign the bird in under the hunters name address etc. when you pick up the bird from said taxidermist, said taxidermist is to log the bird out of his record book and have a receipt from you showing you now possess the bird. this bird should still contain the original tag from the hunter. since you now possess this bird you are to log it into your record book until you deliver the bird back to the taxidermist. once you deliver the bird, you are to log it out as delivered. the original taxidermist is to log this bird back into his log book as a new entry and when the original hunter picks it up it is to be logged out as delivered. the usfws agent told me there needs to be a paper trail so they can follow the bird until it reaches its final destination. sounds like a pain in the rear, but it will keep you out of court. make sure the tags have the hunters name address city state zip. species, how many, where it was killed, when it was killed, and the hunters signature. that is federal law. i dont know about your state laws. hope this helps. and try to deal with the same law enforcement agent if you can.