New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules
Fis - Executive Director, Fish and Game Department
Chapter Fis 800 - THE IMPORTATION, POSSESSION AND USE OF ALL WILDLIFE
Part Fis 815 - PERMIT DENIAL AND APPEAL
Section Fis 815.01 - Denial of a Permit to Import, Possess, Sell, Exhibit, or Release Wildlife

(a) Pursuant to RSA 207:14, I(a), a request for a permit to import, possess, sell, exhibit, or release wildlife shall be granted unless the chief of the fish and game department's wildlife division denies such request due to risks of disease, genetic, ecological, environmental, health, safety, or welfare to persons, marine species, or other wildlife.

(b) The chief of the wildlife division shall notify the applicant in writing of the reasons a permit has been denied. Such notice shall be given within 60 days of the final request for a permit. Source.