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AL SB346

Bill

Status

Introduced

4/5/2011

Primary Sponsor

Slade Blackwell

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Origin

Senate

Regular Session 2011

AI Summary

SB346 Summary

  • Amends Section 9-11-59 of the Alabama Code to modify trap identification requirements for fur-bearing animal trapping.

  • Eliminates the use of plastic tags on traps, requiring metal tags only.

  • Removes the requirement that trap tags contain the trapper's license number, reducing tag information to name and address only.

  • Maintains existing licensing fees ($7.65 for residents, $500.15 for nonresidents) and beaver-only exemptions from license fees.

  • Preserves penalties for violations, including misdemeanor charges with fines between $250 and $2,000 per offense; becomes effective on the first day of the third month following passage and approval.

Legislative Description

Trapping of fur-bearing animals, licensing, use of plastic tags on traps and the requirement that the license number of the owner of a trap be contained on any tag, deleted, Sec. 9-11-59 am'd.

Conservation and Natural Resources Department

Last Action

Indefinitely Postponed

6/1/2011

Committee Referrals

Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry4/5/2011

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