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HB 0081 - Salt water fishing; charter fishing guide and pier fishing licenses; provisions

Tracking Level: Passed
Sponsor: Hill,Cecily 180th
Last Action: 5/14/2007 - House Date Signed by Governor
House Committee: GF&P
Senate Committee: NR&E
Assigned To:
08. Probate CourtsNext Bill
Hunting / FishingNext Bill

Staff Analysis of the Legislation

Amend Title 27.  Relating to game and fish.  This bill would change certain provisions relating to charter fishing guide and pier fishing licenses, fees, and maintenance of records and would provide for new licenses relative to salt water fishing.  Any United States Coast Guard licensed captain operating a charter fishing vessel and any person operating a hotel or motel having a fishing pier or piers may purchase one fishing license covering all persons fishing from such vessel or pier. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the occupation of salt water fishing guide without holding valid annual salt water fishing guide license.  A salt water fishing guide who possesses a valid United States Coast Guard operator of passenger vessel license may purchase an annual customer fishing license, which license shall cover all fee-paying anglers while fishing with such guide during the license year; and all such anglers while so covered shall be exempt from fishing license requirements otherwise applicable under this title. Any person operating a single hotel or motel facility having a salt water fishing pier or piers may purchase an annual salt water fishing pier license, which license shall cover all anglers while fishing from such salt water fishing pier during the license year; and all such anglers while so covered shall be exempt from fishing license requirements otherwise applicable under this title.  Fees for charter fishing and pier licenses required under this Code section shall be $400.00 per year for each vessel and $400.00 per year for all piers operated by any one hotel or motel as follows: resident salt water fishing guide license, $25.00; nonresident salt water fishing guide license, $50.00; customer fishing license for a resident salt water fishing guide carrying six or fewer fee-paying anglers, $150.00; customer fishing license for a resident salt water fishing guide carrying an unlimited number of fee-paying anglers, $400.00; customer fishing license for a nonresident salt water fishing guide, $400.00; and salt water fishing pier license, $400.00.  Each operator of a charter fishing vessel or pier licensed pursuant to this Code section shall maintain at all times a log book showing the names of persons accommodated under the vessel or pier fishing license each day and such other information as may be required by the department.  Each person required to maintain records who holds a salt water fishing guide license or salt water fishing pier license shall report such information as required by the department at such times and in such manner as the board provides by rule or regulation.  This bill would also require that an applicant for a veteran�s lifetime sportsman�s license provide satisfactory evidence that he or she served more than 90 days of federal active duty military service and was honorably discharged.  A type �V� license would be available only to those individuals who served more than 90 days of federal active duty military service and were honorably discharged; eighty percent of the amount of the fee for Type A license (currently Type A fee is $500).


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