H.B. 165 Enrolled

TRANSFER OF BRINE SHRIMP
CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION
1999 GENERAL SESSION
STATE OF UTAH
Sponsor: Thomas V. Hatch
AN ACT RELATING TO FISH AND GAME; PROVIDING FOR THE TRANSFER OF A
BRINE SHRIMP CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.
This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
AMENDS:
23-19-1, as last amended by Chapter 242, Laws of Utah 1998
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
Section 1. Section 23-19-1 is amended to read:
23-19-1. Possession of licenses, certificates of registration, permits, and tags required
-- Nonassignability -- Exceptions -- Free fishing day.
(1) A person may not engage in hunting, trapping, fishing, or seining protected wildlife
or in the sale, trade, or barter of protected wildlife or their parts without first having procured the
necessary licenses, certificates of registration, permits, and tags as provided under this chapter and
having at the same time the licenses, certificates of registration, permits, and tags on his or her
person, except as provided under Subsection (3).
(2) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (2)(b) a person may not:
(i) lend, transfer, sell, give, or assign licenses, certificates of registration, permits, or tags
belonging to the person or the rights granted by licenses, certificates of registration, permits, or
tags; or
(ii) use or attempt to use a license, certificate of registration, permit, or tag of another
person.
(b) The Wildlife Board may make exceptions to the prohibitions specified in Subsection
(2)(a) for purposes of:
(i) transporting wildlife; [or]
(ii) taking a deer or elk for a person who is blind or a quadriplegic[.]; or

(iii) transferring a certificate of registration to harvest brine shrimp and brine shrimp eggs
to another person, if the certificate is transferred in connection with the sale or transfer of the brine
shrimp harvest operation or the harvesting equipment, subject to the restrictions referred to under
Subsection (2)(c).
(c) (i) A certificate of registration to harvest brine shrimp and brine shrimp eggs may not be
transferred without the approval of the division.
(ii) Application to allow the transfer of a certificate of registration to harvest brine shrimp
and brine shrimp eggs shall be made to the division on a form prescribed and furnished by it.
(iii) The division may grant a transfer of a certificate of registration to harvest brine shrimp
and brine shrimp eggs if the proposed transferee meets all the requirements necessary to obtain an
original certificate of registration.
(3) No license, certificate of registration, permit, or tag is required to:
(a) fish on a free fishing day which the Wildlife Board may establish each year under rules
prescribed by the board;
(b) fish at a private fish installation operated in accordance with Section 23-15-10 ; or
(c) hunt birds on a commercial hunting area that the owner or operator is authorized to
propagate, keep, and release for shooting pursuant to a certificate of registration issued under Section
23-17-6 .

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