33-5-53
Section 33-5-53 Boater safety certification; application fee; examinations; exemptions. (a)
Every person who applies for a boater safety certification under this article, except as otherwise
provided in this subsection, shall pay a five dollar ($5) application fee and be given either
a certificate of exemption from examination if applicable, or will be given an examination,
either written or oral, before applying to the judge of probate or license commissioner for
the issuance of the certification. No person shall be eligible for, or issued, an exemption
from examination in the event the person is convicted, on or after April 28, 1994, of violating
any crime relating to the operation of a vessel, whether contained in this article or otherwise,
for which a person's boater safety certification or vessel operating privileges shall be suspended
or revoked pursuant to this article. The person shall first apply to either the officer, state
trooper, or duly authorized agent of the Director of...
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9-12-29
Section 9-12-29 Patrol boats. The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall provide
the necessary patrol boats and shall appoint a deputy inspector for each patrol boat who shall
be a seafaring man, competent to act as captain of the boat on which he may be assigned, and
the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall provide all necessary crews to
properly man said boats. They shall patrol daily the waters of the Mississippi Sound and the
territorial waters of the State of Alabama under the direction of the Director, Marine Resources
Division, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and shall see that all oysters
are properly culled on the reefs or beds where taken and that all laws appertaining to the
taking, catching, canning, transporting or having in possession of all seafoods of the State
of Alabama are complied with. (Acts 1936-37, Ex. Sess., No. 169, p. 192, § 7; Code 1940,
T. 8, § 130.)...
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9-12-35
Section 9-12-35 Cultivation, transplantation, or replanting of public reefs. The Director of
the Marine Resources Division, or his or her agents, under the direction and control of the
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, may cultivate, transplant, or replant the
public reefs of the state or may employ boats, crews, and laborers to cultivate or replant
the public reefs of the state and may employ boats, crews, and laborers to dredge the oysters
in the Alabama waters from places where they are too thick and shall spread them on reefs
where they are too thin, and the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, in cultivating
the reefs, transplanting, and spreading oysters and shells, may expend such sums as it may
deem proper. (Acts 1936-37, Ex. Sess., No. 169, p. 192, §11; Code 1940, T. 8, §133; Act
2010-699, p. 1692, §1.)...
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9-11-143
Section 9-11-143 Use of commercial fishing gear in public impounded waters and navigable streams
- License - Issuance; fees; records; disposition of fees. The judge of probate, the commissioner
of licenses or such person or persons duly appointed by the Commissioner of Conservation and
Natural Resources and so authorized by him to issue the license provided by this article shall
issue such a license to any resident of this state complying with the provisions of this article
and shall sign his name and shall require the person to whom the license is issued to sign
his name on the margin thereof. The license for the use of such commercial fishing gear as
authorized under the provisions of this article shall be $100.00. A resident of the State
of Alabama, as applicable to this article, shall be a person who has resided continuously
in this state for 12 months next preceding the application for said license. The person or
persons issuing said licenses shall keep in a book or on specially...
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9-12-30
Section 9-12-30 Patrolling of private oyster reefs. The Director, Marine Resources Division,
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources is hereby authorized and it shall be his
duty to patrol or cause to be patrolled from time to time as he may see fit all those areas
in Alabama territorial waters upon which are located private oyster reefs to prevent the illegal
taking or removal by unauthorized persons of oysters on said private reefs. (Acts 1959, No.
509, p. 1246, §1.)...
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9-12-65
Section 9-12-65 Sale, etc., of shrimp or oysters to persons, etc., failing to comply with provisions
of article. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, barter, exchange, give or deliver
to any person, firm or corporation doing business in Alabama any saltwater shrimp or oysters
after having been notified in writing by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
or its agent to the effect that such person, firm or corporation which the Department of Conservation
and Natural Resources shall name in its notice has failed or refused to pay the tax on saltwater
shrimp or oysters or to make the reports in writing required by law or has failed to comply
with the other provisions of this article, and in the event such saltwater shrimp or oyster
catcher or master of a boat handling saltwater shrimp or oysters sells, exchanges, barters,
gives or delivers saltwater shrimp or oysters to the person, firm or corporation named in
the notice as not having complied with the provisions of...
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9-12-37
Section 9-12-37 Use of mechanical rake dredges, etc., dredge license. Owners of private oyster
reefs, beds, or bottoms and the lessees or designated permittees of such reefs, beds, or bottoms
may use any mechanical means at their disposal and at any time between the hours of sunrise
and sunset, including the use of mechanical rake dredges, to cultivate and harvest or remove
live oysters of any size upon or from such grounds. Such a person shall first obtain a dredge
license as provided in Section 9-12-87. The license may be revoked by the Commissioner of
Conservation and Natural Resources if any violation of any statute or rule relating to the
use of the mechanical devices occurs, and the commissioner may thereafter refuse to issue
a new license to the person. (Acts 1959, No. 632, p. 1538, §1; Act 2010-699, p. 1692, §1.)...

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9-2-150
Section 9-2-150 Shellfish Aquaculture Review Board; oyster aquaculture leasing program. (a)
For purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) BOARD.
The Shellfish Aquaculture Review Board. (2) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Conservation and
Natural Resources. (3) OYSTER AQUACULTURE. The cultivation and harvesting of hatchery-spawned
oysters for commercial purposes. (b) There is created the Shellfish Aquaculture Review Board,
which shall be responsible for developing a shellfish aquaculture policy and implementing
a sustainable program for leasing land in the coastal waters of Alabama for oyster aquaculture.
For administrative purposes, the board shall be an administrative unit within the department.
(c) The board shall consist of the following members: (1) The Commissioner of the Alabama
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources or his or her designee. (2) The Commissioner
of the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries or his or her...
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9-2-25
Section 9-2-25 Refunds on erroneous or excessive license fees. (a) This section shall apply
to all licenses administered by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources or any
division thereof. (b) In the event any license for the same privilege is made available at
a lesser price and reasonable notice of its availability has not been given to the public,
a person, firm or corporation will be entitled to a refund equal to the amount of the reduction
of the license fee; and any person, firm or corporation who, by mistake, purchases any duplicate
license or pays an amount in excess of that required by law for the license shall be entitled
to have the money incorrectly paid refunded as hereinafter provided, less any amount paid
as an issuance fee or other fee to any probate judge, license commissioner, special agent
or other person authorized to issue such licenses. (c) Any amount charged by a probate judge,
license commissioner, special agent or other person authorized to issue...
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33-5-20
Section 33-5-20 Special agents to sell boat licenses. The sheriffs of this state may be designated
as special agents to sell boat licenses as provided for herein. The Commissioner of Conservation
and Natural Resources is authorized to appoint other special agents to sell boat licenses
as provided for herein; provided, however, that the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural
Resources may not appoint any special agent until the agent is bonded for not less than five
thousand dollars ($5,000). Such agents shall receive licenses from the Department of Conservation
and Natural Resources in the same manner as the probate judges and license commissioners and
shall make such reports and be subject to such audits as the Commissioner of Conservation
and Natural Resources may specify. Special agents so appointed shall make returns to the Department
of Conservation and Natural Resources in the same manner as probate judges and license commissioners.
The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural...
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