Alabama Code 9-11-33. Hunting and fishing licenses generally – Numbering; delivery of blank licenses to issuing authorities; return of unused licenses and stubs
Terms Used In Alabama Code 9-11-33
- 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
- preceding: means next before. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
- Probate: Proving a will
- 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
- year: means a calendar year; but, whenever the word "year" is used in reference to any appropriations for the payment of money out of the treasury, it shall mean fiscal year. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
All hunting and fishing licenses, both resident and nonresident, shall be numbered consecutively at the time they are printed. Blank licenses shall be furnished by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to the judges of probate of the several counties of the state or the license commissioner and to such other person or persons not residing at the county seat as may be designated by the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources to issue hunting and fishing licenses, and the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall deliver not less than 15 days before October 1 of each year to the judges of probate of this state and to such other person or persons so designated as many such licenses as may be required and shall charge with same all those to whom licenses have been so issued. On October 1 of each year or within 10 days thereafter each officer or person to whom licenses have been so issued shall return to the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources all unused licenses and all stubs of licenses issued during the preceding fiscal year.