Florida Senate - 2010                             CS for SB 1904
       
       
       
       By the Committee on Environmental Preservation and Conservation;
       and Senator Lawson
       
       
       
       592-05312-10                                          20101904c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to saltwater products licenses;
    3         amending s. 379.361, F.S.; providing that specified
    4         residents are exempt from the annual fee for a
    5         saltwater products license; providing an effective
    6         date.
    7  
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
    9  
   10         Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subsection (2) of section
   11  379.361, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   12         379.361 Licenses.—
   13         (2) SALTWATER PRODUCTS LICENSE.—
   14         (e) The annual fee for a saltwater products license is:
   15         1. For a license issued in the name of an individual which
   16  authorizes only that individual to engage in commercial fishing
   17  activities from the shore or a vessel: a resident must pay $50;
   18  a nonresident must pay $200; or an alien must pay $300. However,
   19  a resident 65 years of age or older who has held a valid license
   20  for the previous 3 years is not required to pay the annual fee.
   21         2. For a license issued in the name of an individual which
   22  authorizes that named individual to engage in commercial fishing
   23  activities from the shore or a vessel and also authorizes each
   24  person who is fishing with the named individual aboard a vessel
   25  to engage in such activities: a resident must pay $150; a
   26  nonresident must pay $600; or an alien must pay $900.
   27         3. For a license issued to a valid commercial vessel
   28  registration number which authorizes each person aboard such
   29  registered vessel to engage in commercial fishing activities: a
   30  resident, or a resident firm or corporation, must pay $100; a
   31  nonresident, or a nonresident firm or corporation, must pay
   32  $400; or an alien, or an alien firm or corporation, must pay
   33  $600. For purposes of this subparagraph, a resident firm or
   34  corporation means a firm or corporation formed under the laws of
   35  this state; a nonresident firm or corporation means a firm or
   36  corporation formed under the laws of any state other than
   37  Florida; and an alien firm or corporation means a firm or
   38  corporation organized under any laws other than laws of the
   39  United States, any United States territory or possession, or any
   40  state of the United States.
   41         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.