North Dakota Administrative Code
Title 30 - Game and Fish Department
Article 30-02 - Wildlife Management
Chapter 30-02-02 - Falconry
Section 30-02-02-04 - License conditions

1. A licensee may not purchase, sell, trade, barter, or receive any compensation for wild raptors. Wild raptors may only be gifted.

2. A licensee may purchase, sell, trade, or barter any lawfully possessed raptor that is bred in captivity under authority of a federal raptor propagation permit and banded with a numbered seamless metal band. All transactions of this type are subject to additional conditions specified by 50 CFR 21.30.

3. A licensee may not propagate raptors without prior acquisition of a valid federal raptor propagation permit as described in 50 CFR 21.30 and as required by North Dakota Century Code chapters 20.1-09 and 36-01.

4. A licensee may not take, purchase, receive, or otherwise acquire, sell, barter, transfer, or otherwise dispose of any raptor unless such licensee submits electronically a form 3-186A (migratory bird acquisition/disposition report) for each bird possessed within five days of acquisition, disposition, or death of the bird (http://permits.fws.gov/186A).

5. A licensee must keep copies of all electronic database submissions of each falconry raptor for five years after the disposition, transfer, loss, or death of the bird.

6. If a raptor is stolen, missing, or lost, the licensee must report the incident to the department and the United States fish and wildlife service regional law enforcement office within twenty-four hours.

7. A license or legible copies of a license must be in the licensee's immediate possession if trapping, transporting, working with, or flying falconry raptors.

Any person who violates this section is guilty of a noncriminal offense and shall pay a two hundred dollar fee.