BILL NUMBER: AB 1101	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Duvall

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to amend Section 1050 of the Fish and Game Code, relating
to the Department of Fish and Game.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1101, as introduced, Duvall. Department of Fish and Game:
licenses and other entitlements.
   Existing law requires that all licenses, permits, tags,
reservations, and other entitlements authorized by the Fish and Game
Code be prepared and issued by the Department of Fish and Game.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 1050 of the Fish and Game Code is amended to
read:
   1050.  (a) All licenses, permits, tags  ,  reservations,
and other entitlements authorized by this code shall be prepared and
issued by the department.
   (b) The commission shall determine the form of all licenses,
permits, tags, reservations, and other entitlements and the method of
carrying and displaying all licenses, and may require and prescribe
the form of applications therefor and the form of any contrivance to
be used in connection therewith.
   (c) Whenever any provision of this code provides for a 
license,  permit,  license,  tag, reservation,
application, or other entitlement, the commission  shall
 , in accordance with the provision,  shall 
prescribe the terms and conditions under which the  license,
 permit,  license,  tag, reservation,
application, or other entitlement shall be issued and the department
shall issue the  license,  permit,  license,
 tag, reservation, application, or other entitlement in
accordance therewith and with the applicable provisions of law.
   (d) Whenever this code does not specify whether a fee is to be
collected, or does not specify the amount of a fee to be collected
for the issuance of any license,  tag,  permit, 
tag, reservation,  application,  reservation, 
or other entitlement, the commission may establish a fee or the
amount thereof by regulation. The commission  also  may
 also  provide for the change in the amount of the
fee in accordance with Section 713. However,  no 
 a  fee  may   shall not  exceed
the reasonable costs incurred by the department in implementing and
administering the program or activity to which the license, 
tag,  permit,  tag, reservation,  application,
 reservation,  or other entitlement is related.
   (e) Whenever this code provides for a license,  tag,
 permit,  tag,  reservation, or other entitlement,
the commission may establish a nonrefundable application fee, not to
exceed seven dollars and fifty cents ($7.50)  , that is 
sufficient to pay the department's costs for issuing the license,
 tag,  permit,  tag,  reservation, or other
entitlement and may adjust the application fee in accordance with
Section 713.