Section 9-2-63 Bond of Director.
Before starting office duties, the Director must give a bond to the State of Alabama.
- Bonding requirements
- Public office compliance
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Before starting office duties, the Director must give a bond to the State of Alabama.
The Commissioner may appoint game and fish wardens. Wardens must take the required oath, post a $1,000 bond approved by the Governor, and may be reimbursed for meals, lodging, and transportation when away from headquarters on duty.
Game and fish wardens have listed enforcement and assistance powers, and the director of the division has listed supervisory and reporting duties.
An official annual state nongame wildlife print and/or stamp is established, and the Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries may contract with an artist and sell reproductions.
The Commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources may make rules and regulations needed to carry out this act.
The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources may enforce wildlife laws and is empowered to set seasons, limits, species classifications, methods of take, and license actions for specified wildlife matters.
The Commissioner may make reasonable conservation rules, but not rules that conflict with game and fish laws or that interfere with industry or private-water activities, and must publish the laws and rules in a pamphlet.
This provision defines “seafoods” to include specified oysters, fish, shrimp, terrapin, sea turtle, crabs, and other marine or saltwater animal life in Alabama waters.
A Division of Marine Resources is created within the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
The Director of the Marine Resources Division is appointed by the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources, with the Governor’s approval, and is subject to the state Merit System.
The Director of the Marine Resources Division must take the constitutional oath before starting duties, work full time, and not hold another lucrative job while serving.
The Director of the Marine Resources Division must execute a bond to the State of Alabama before taking office.
Employees of the Division of Marine Resources must enforce seafood laws, prosecute violators, and seize seafood taken contrary to those laws.
The Director of the Division of Marine Resources and other employees are given peace-officer powers to enforce seafood laws and related rules, inspect seafood businesses and equipment, arrest violators, and act across Alabama waters and counties.
This provision creates the Seafoods Fund.
Certain collectors must send collected funds to the Commissioner on the first day of each month, and the Commissioner must then send them to the State Treasurer for the Seafoods Fund.
The Seafoods Fund must be used by the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources for marine and seafood-related preservation and development purposes, and spending is limited by budget/allotment rules.
The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources, through the Division of Parks, has broad powers over state parks, including acquiring land, making contracts, setting rules, charging fees, and appointing deputy police officers; violations of the rules can be punished.
This chapter may be cited as the “Alabama Nonindigenous Aquatic Plant Control Act.”
This section defines several terms, including aquatic plant, department, nonindigenous aquatic plant, person, and public waters of the state.
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