9-12-232
Section 9-12-232 Commercial gill net permits - Acquisition and retirement. (a) The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall establish and administer a voluntary program to acquire and retire commercial gill net permits of saltwater commercial fishermen issued pursuant to Section 9-12-113. (b) Each resident Alabama saltwater commercial fisherman who possesses a valid Alabama permit June 1, 2008, and any nonresident commercial fisherman who has held a commercial gill net license for 25 years or more without a fishing violation who possesses a valid Alabama permit on June 1, 2008, may surrender his or her license on or before March 1, 2009. (c) Upon surrender of the license, the following shall apply: (1) If the total income of the license holder from dockside value of finfish harvested and landed in Alabama using gill nets in the last three years was less than five thousand dollars ($5,000), the licensee shall receive a payment from the Department of Conservation and...
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9-12-113
were found or when the operator of the device has not been determined after a period of 30 days, the device or items shall be forfeited to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources which shall destroy or otherwise dispose of the device or items as it shall deem advisable or in lieu of forfeiture, the court may impose additional fines. (i) All game fish taken by nets or seines under this law shall be immediately returned to the waters where they were taken with the least possible injury to the fish. Possession of game fish in violation of this subsection will be considered as using a net or seine in an illegal manner. Saltwater game fish are defined as follows: Spotted Seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus); Red Drum (Sciaenops ocellata); Tarpon (Megalops atlanticus); and those species designated by regulation of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. The department shall by regulation to the extent possible establish a tagging system to regulate importation or sale...
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9-12-231
Section 9-12-231 Nets and similar devices permitted in salt and brackish waters. (a) The following nets or similar devices may be used in Alabama salt and brackish waters: (1) A landing net, which is a net commonly used to land fish while hook-and-line fishing. (2) A dip or crab net, which may not exceed three feet in diameter. (3) A minnow seine, which may not exceed 25 feet in length or 4 feet in depth. (4) A hand thrown cast net, which may not exceed 30 feet in diameter. (5) A shrimp trawl net. (6) A net used for scientific or educational purposes; provided that any person using a net for scientific or educational purposes shall have in his or her possession a valid permit issued by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, which shall enact rules governing the use of nets for scientific or educational purposes. (7) A purse seine for the taking of menhaden by persons licensed by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in water designated by the department....
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9-12-95
Section 9-12-95 Commercial party boat license; fee; requirements; expiration; penalty. (a) Any person, firm, or corporation who engages in the business of carrying one or more persons fishing in salt and brackish waters of the State of Alabama for a fee shall purchase a commercial party boat license. The fee for a commercial party boat license shall be $200.00 for boats certified for up to six passengers, $300.00 for boats certified for seven to twenty-five passengers, and $500 for boats certified for more than twenty-five passengers. Upon making application for the license, the applicant shall provide evidence of a United States Coast Guard license for operating a passenger boat. Any law or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding, passengers on the commercial party boats may fish in the territorial waters of Alabama, and land fish in this state caught within or beyond the territorial waters without purchasing a fishing license. Persons to whom the commercial party boat license is...
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40-23-2
or corporation, (including the State of Alabama and its Alcoholic Beverage Control Board in the sale of alcoholic beverages of all kinds, the University of Alabama, Auburn University, and all other institutions of higher learning in the state, whether the institutions be denominational, state, county, or municipal institutions, any association or other agency or instrumentality of the institutions) engaged or continuing within this state, in the business of selling at retail any tangible personal property whatsoever, including merchandise and commodities of every kind and character, (not including, however, bonds or other evidences of debts or stocks, nor sales of material and supplies to any person for use in fulfilling a contract for the painting, repair, or reconditioning of vessels, barges, ships, other watercraft, and commercial fishing vessels of over five tons load displacement as registered with the U.S. Coast Guard and licensed by the State of Alabama Department of...
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45-11-244.02
or gross receipts, as the case may be, as follows: (1) Upon every person, firm, or corporation, (including the State of Alabama, the University of Alabama, Auburn University, and all other institutions of higher learning in the state, whether such institutions be denominational, state, county, or municipal institutions, and any association or other agency or instrumentality of such institutions) engaged, or continuing within the county in the business of selling at retail any tangible personal property whatsoever, including merchandise and commodities of every kind and character, (not including, however, bonds or other evidences of debts or stocks, nor sales of material and supplies to any person for use in fulfilling a contract for the painting, repair, or reconditioning of vessels, barges, ships, and other watercraft, and commercial fishing vessels of over five tons displacement as registered with the United States Coast Guard and licensed by the State of Alabama Department of...
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45-11-245.02
or gross receipts, as the case may be, as follows: (1) Upon every person, firm, or corporation, (including the State of Alabama, the University of Alabama, Auburn University, and all other institutions of higher learning in the state, whether such institutions be denominational, state, county, or municipal institutions, and any association or other agency or instrumentality of such institutions) engaged, or continuing within the county in the business of selling at retail any tangible personal property whatsoever, including merchandise and commodities of every kind and character, (not including, however, bonds or other evidences of debts or stocks, nor sales of material and supplies to any person for use in fulfilling a contract for the painting, repair, or reconditioning of vessels, barges, ships, and other watercraft, and commercial fishing vessels of over five tons displacement as registered with the U.S. Coast Guard and licensed by the State of Alabama Department of...
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40-23-4
sales of materials, equipment, and machinery that, at any time, enter into and become a component part of ships, vessels, towing vessels or barges, or drilling ships, rigs or barges, or seismic or geophysical vessels, other watercraft and commercial fishing vessels of over five tons load displacement as registered with the U.S. Coast Guard and licensed by the State of Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Additionally, the gross proceeds from the sale or sales of lifeboats, personal flotation devices, ring life buoys, survival craft equipment, distress signals, EPIRB's, fire extinguishers, injury placards, waste management plans and logs, marine sanitation devices, navigation rulebooks, navigation lights, sound signals, navigation day shapes, oil placard cards, garbage placards, FCC SSL, stability instructions, first aid equipment, compasses, anchor and radar reflectors, general alarm systems, bilge pumps, piping, and discharge and electronic position fixing...
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9-11-56.1
Section 9-11-56.1 Nonresident fishing licenses - Commercial license. (a) The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, hereinafter referred to as "the department" or duly authorized designees of the department shall sell and issue commercial fishing licenses to residents of other states, which other states reciprocate the sale and issuance of similar such commercial fishing licenses to residents of Alabama to fish the waters of their respective states. (b) The amount to be charged for such nonresident commercial fishing license shall be the same as is charged a resident of Alabama for such a license in the reciprocating state, but in no event shall the amount be less than the prevailing amount charged by the department of commercial fishing licenses for Alabama residents. (c) Nonresident commercial fishing licensees shall be subject to the same rules, regulations and requirements of law and of the department as may apply to Alabama resident commercial fishing licensees. Each...
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9-12-234
Section 9-12-234 Marine Resources Restoration Fund. (a) There is created in the State Treasury the Marine Resources Restoration Fund which shall receive funds from the additional surcharge on resident and nonresident saltwater fishing licenses levied pursuant to Section 9-12-233. In addition, the fund shall receive any state, federal, local, or private funds that may be legally applied toward economic relief of saltwater commercial gill net fishermen. (b) The fund is continuously appropriated to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for the purpose of implementing the programs established in Section 9-12-232 and as otherwise provided in subsection (d). The department may not use any of the monies in the fund for administrative expenses. (c) All interest and earnings derived from the monies in the fund shall remain in the fund. Any unexpended monies remaining in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund and shall remain available for expenditure by...
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