SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 2146

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11  Senator Bronson moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment 

14         On page 18, line 1, through page 19, line 2, delete

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18         Section 5.  Subsection (2) of section 370.14, Florida

19  Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to read:

20         370.14  Crawfish; regulation.--

21         (2)(a)  Each trap used for taking or attempting to take

22  crawfish must have a trap number permanently attached to the

23  trap and the buoy. This trap number may be issued by the Fish

24  and Wildlife Conservation Commission Division of Law

25  Enforcement upon the receipt of application by the owner of

26  the traps and accompanied by the payment of a fee of $100. The

27  design of the applications and of the trap number shall be

28  determined by the commission division. However, effective July

29  1, 1988, and until July 1, 1992, no crawfish trap numbers

30  issued pursuant to this section except those numbers that were

31  active during the 1990-1991 fiscal year shall be renewed or

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 2146

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 1  reissued. No new trap numbers shall be issued during this

 2  period. Until July 1, 1992, trap number holders or members of

 3  their immediate family or a person to whom the trap number was

 4  transferred in writing must request renewal of the number

 5  prior to June 30 of each year. If a person holding an active

 6  trap number or a member of the person's immediate family or a

 7  person to whom the trap number was transferred in writing does

 8  not request renewal of the number before the applicable date

 9  as specified above, the department may reissue the number to

10  another applicant in the order of the receipt of the

11  application for a trap number. Any trap or device used in

12  taking or attempting to take crawfish, other than a trap with

13  the trap number attached as prescribed in this paragraph,

14  shall be seized and destroyed by the commission division. The

15  proceeds of the fees imposed by this paragraph shall be

16  deposited and used as provided in paragraph (b). The

17  commission Department of Environmental Protection is

18  authorized to adopt promulgate rules and regulations to carry

19  out the intent of this section.

20         (b)  Fees collected pursuant to paragraph (a) shall be

21  deposited as follows:

22         1.  Fifty percent of the fees collected shall be

23  deposited in the Marine Resources Conservation Trust Fund for

24  use in enforcing the provisions of paragraph (a) through

25  aerial and other surveillance and trap retrieval.

26         2.  Fifty percent of the fees collected shall be

27  deposited as provided in s. 370.142(6)(5).

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