Alaska Administrative Code › Title 20 - Miscellaneous Boards and Commissions › Chapter 05 - Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission › Article 5 - Issuance of Entry Permits › 20 AAC 05.560 - Annual renewal of entry permit

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Application for
				annual renewal of an entry permit must be made to the commission on a form
				provided by the commission. If the renewal form is submitted by mail or
				electronic imaging, the renewal form must be completed and signed by the permit
				holder, or by an agent authorized in accordance with
				20 AAC 05.1960. An applicant may submit an application to
				renew an entry permit on the online licensing system at the commission's website.
				The total annual fee for the permit or permits being renewed must be submitted
				with the application.
(b) An entry
				permit is forfeited and reverts to the commission if it has not been renewed by
				December 31 of the second consecutive calendar year after its issuance or last
				renewal, except as waived by the commission upon demonstration of good
				cause.
(c) Repealed
				11/26/87.
(d) The commission may
				waive the annual renewal fee of a limited entry permit if the commission finds
				that a circumstance applicable to all permittees in a fishery has prevented a
				substantial number of permittees from participating in that fishery including the
				person requesting the fee waiver. A permittee may request a refund of fees paid
				for that season by submitting a written request to the commission that specifies
				the circumstances that prevented the person and a substantial number of other
				permittees from participating in that fishery. The permit card or compelling
				evidence of the destruction of the permit card must accompany the request. The
				commission may require a permittee to submit affidavits or other evidence in
				support of a request for a refund.
(e) Before the commission will issue an entry
				permit card in a given year, the annual renewal form submitted to the commission
				must show the ADF&G number of the vessel on which the card is to be used,
				and, except when excused for good cause or exempt by law, the vessel so
				designated must be licensed for that year.
(f) A person applying for the annual renewal of
				an entry permit who needs to fish immediately, and has not yet renewed, applied
				for renewal, or paid the current year fees for an entry permit, may instead apply
				using the Application for Immediate Fishing form provided by the commission. The
				application form may be used for fishing only if the form has been submitted to
				the commission through commission staff or an agent of the commission who has
				certified the form is complete by signing it. The signed application form may be
				used for fishing for no more than the 14 days immediately following the date that
				the form is signed by commission staff or an agent of the commission, unless
				extended by the commission. In addition to the total annual fee for the permits
				and vessel licenses being applied for, a processing fee of $80 must be submitted
				with the application. The commission may waive the processing fee for
(1) an applicant who qualifies for the reduced
				permit fee in accordance with
				20 AAC 05.245; or
(2) good cause shown.