SB229 Summary

• Reduces Alabama resident trapping license fee from $7.65 to $20 and shortens residency requirement from 6 months to 90 days.

• Changes nonresident trapping license fee from a fixed $500.15 to match the amount charged a resident of Alabama for a similar license, with a minimum of 10 times the resident fee.

• Removes the exemption requiring residents and nonresidents trapping for beaver only to be exempt from paying a license fee.

• Modifies trap identification tag requirements to allow either plastic or metal tags and removes the requirement that tags bear the license number for non-beaver traps.

• Maintains criminal penalties of $250 to $2,000 fines for violations and establishes an effective date of the first day of the third month following passage.