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H.B. 198 Enrolled

                 

EXPANSION OF ACCESS TO FISH AND

                 
GAME OPPORTUNITIES

                 
2003 GENERAL SESSION

                 
STATE OF UTAH

                 
Sponsor: Stephen D. Clark

                  This act modifies the Wildlife Resources Code to expand opportunities to certain persons
                  to engage in hunting and fishing related activities.
                  This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
                  AMENDS:
                      23-19-1, as last amended by Chapter 204, Laws of Utah 1999
                  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;
                      (ii) taking [a deer or elk] protected wildlife for a person who [is blind or a


                  quadriplegic] has a permanent physical impairment due to injury or disease, congenital or
                  acquired, which renders the person so severely disabled as to be physically unable to use a legal
                  hunting weapon or fishing device; 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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