California Fish and Game Code 1050.8 – (a) The department may issue collectible, commemorative licenses …
(a) The department may issue collectible, commemorative licenses to any person for purposes of promoting and supporting licensed hunting, fishing, and resource conservation, subject to all of the following:
(1) A commemorative license may be designed and produced as the department may determine and shall be clearly marked and identified as a commemorative license, rendering it invalid for the take of any mammal, bird, fish, reptile, or amphibian.
Terms Used In California Fish and Game Code 1050.8
- Bird: means a wild bird or part of a wild bird. See California Fish and Game Code 22
- Department: means the Department of Fish and Wildlife. See California Fish and Game Code 37
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Fish: means a wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, amphibian, or part, spawn, or ovum of any of those animals. See California Fish and Game Code 45
- Mammal: means a wild or feral mammal or part of a wild or feral animal, but not a wild, feral, or undomesticated burro. See California Fish and Game Code 54
- Person: means any natural person or any partnership, corporation, limited liability company, trust, or other type of association. See California Fish and Game Code 67
- Purchase: means "buy" as defined in Section 24. See California Fish and Game Code 68
- Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Fish and Game Code 73
- Take: means hunt, pursue, catch, capture, or kill, or attempt to hunt, pursue, catch, capture, or kill. See California Fish and Game Code 86
(2) A commemorative license shall not confer any rights, privileges, or other entitlements to any person purchasing or in possession of such a license.
(3) Subdivision (a) of Section 1052, Section 1053.1, Article 2 (commencing with Section 3031) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 4, and Article 3 (commencing with Section 7145) of Chapter 1 of Part 2 of Division 6 do not apply to the purchase of a commemorative license. A commemorative license shall not qualify as evidence required in subdivision (a) of Section 3050.
(b) All funds derived from the sale of commemorative licenses shall be deposited in the Fish and Game Preservation Fund.
(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 683, Sec. 4. (SB 798) Effective January 1, 2016.)