BILL NUMBER: AB 2775	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife (Huffman
(Chair), Fuller (Vice Chair), Anderson, Arambula, Tom Berryhill,
Blumenfield, Caballero, Fletcher, Bonnie Lowenthal, Salas, and
Yamada)

                        MARCH 1, 2010

   An act to repeal Section 2150.5 of the Fish and Game Code,
relating to permits.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2775, as introduced, Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife.
Permits: restricted animals.
   Existing law grants to the Fish and Game Commission powers
relating to the protection and propagation of fish and game. Existing
law establishes the Department of Fish and Game in the Natural
Resources Agency, and generally charges the department with the
administration and enforcement of the Fish and Game Code. Existing
law makes it unlawful to import, transport, possess, or release
restricted animals without a permit. Existing law authorizes persons
to possess specified restricted animals under a permit when the owner
can demonstrate that the animal was legally acquired and possessed
in the state before January 1, 1975.
   This bill would repeal this permit authorization, thereby creating
a new crime and imposing a state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 2150.5 of the Fish and Game Code is repealed.

   2150.5.  Classes, orders, families, genera, and species which may
not be imported, transported, possessed, or released alive in this
state solely because of concern for the welfare of the animal may be
possessed under permit when the owner can demonstrate that such
animal was legally acquired and possessed in California before the
effective date of this section. The department may require the owner
of an animal which may be possessed under this section to mark or
otherwise identify such animal and progeny, so as not to endanger the
welfare of that animal, to the satisfaction of the department. The
owner shall not transfer such animal or progeny to any other person
without prior approval of the department. 
  SEC. 2.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the
meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.