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AL SB462
Bill
Status
4/18/2013
Primary Sponsor
Bill Hightower
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AI Summary
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Amends Alabama Code Section 9-12-113 to allow net or seine permits (nonresident permits under subdivision 2) to be transferred upon physical hardship, retirement, or death of the permittee, reversing the prior rule of non-transferability under any circumstances.
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Requires the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to transfer permits to an immediate family member (defined as mother, father, brother, sister, spouse, stepsister, stepbrother, stepparent, or stepchild) or to an administrator or executor of the permittee's estate upon the permittee's death.
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Permits immediate family members who receive a permit from a deceased permittee to transfer that permit to any third party purchaser of the permittee's fishing vessel.
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Allows a permittee experiencing physical hardship to temporarily designate a third party to represent the permittee without requiring the permittee's presence on board the vessel in Alabama waters.
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Becomes effective on the first day of the third month following passage and approval by the Governor.
Legislative Description
Licenses and Licensing, Conservation and Natural Resources Department, fishing, net, or seine permit transferable under certain circumstances, including physical hardship, Sec. 9-12-113 am'd.
Licenses and Licensing
Last Action
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry
4/18/2013