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Texas Parks and Wildlife Code - Section 47.074. Licensing

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§ 47.074. LICENSING.  (a) No person may engage in 
business as a commercial finfish fisherman unless the person has 
obtained a commercial finfish fisherman's license.
	(b)  No person may engage in commercial finfish fishing 
unless:              
		(1)  the person has in their immediate possession:                            
			(A)  a commercial finfish fisherman's license 
issued to the person;  or    
			(B)  a general commercial fisherman's license 
issued to the person, a commercial finfish fisherman's license 
issued to another person, and a copy of an affidavit that:
				(i)  authorizes the person to use commercial 
finfish fishing devices owned by the person to whom the commercial 
finfish fisherman's license was issued;  and
				(ii)  contains the date, the original 
signature of the person to whom the commercial finfish fisherman's 
license was issued, and the commercial finfish fisherman's license 
number that matches the commercial finfish fisherman's license 
plate number on the boat, if the department requires a license 
plate;  or
		(2)  the person has in their immediate possession a 
commercial finfish fisherman's license or a general commercial 
fisherman's license, and another person has in their immediate 
possession the documentation described by Subdivision (1).
	(c)  Beginning September 1, 2000, the department shall issue 
a commercial finfish fisherman's license only to a person who 
documents in a manner acceptable to the department that the person 
held a commercial finfish fisherman's license during the period 
after September 1, 1997, through April 20, 1999.
	(d)  A proclamation issued under this section shall 
establish a commercial finfish fisherman's license in accordance 
with the provisions of this subchapter.

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 455, § 7, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.           

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