(a) The county governing body of Lamar County shall establish a special beaver fund in the county treasury with an initial deposit of five thousand dollars ($5,000) from the county general fund. The beaver fund shall be used to pay bounties to any resident of the county in the amount of ten dollars ($10) per beaver that is freshly trapped or killed in Lamar County.

Attorney's Note

Under the Alabama Code, punishments for crimes depend on the classification. In the case of this section:
ClassPrisonFine
Class C felony1 to 10 yearsup to $15,000
For details, see Ala. Code § 13A-5-6

Terms Used In Alabama Code 45-38-160

  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(b) The payment of a bounty of ten dollars ($10) per beaver shall be administered by the senior state conservation officer assigned to Lamar County, who shall give an annual accounting and report to the county governing body on the beaver bounty program in Lamar County. Bounties shall be paid only upon the written authorization of the conservation officer.
(c) All claims for bounties shall be filed with a conservation officer assigned to Lamar County and the conservation officer shall have due reason to believe that the claimant is a resident of Lamar County and that the beaver trapped or killed were freshly trapped or killed in Lamar County.
(d) The conservation officer shall have absolute discretion in paying the bounty provided for in this section and his or her decision shall be final. Provided, however, any person who falsely makes claim for a bounty is guilty of a Class C felony and, upon conviction, shall be punished as prescribed by law.
(e) The county commission shall appropriate such sums annually at the beginning of the fiscal year as shall start the beaver bounty fund off with five thousand dollars ($5,000) annually.