Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2017-02-18 02:10:11.991161+00
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E                         ENElZAL

                            June 10, 1960

Honorable H. D. Dodgen
Executive Secretary
Game & Fish Commission
Austin, Texas                          Opinion No. WW - 846

                                      Be:   Under the provisions of
                                            Article hO75b, V.A.C.S.,
                                            as amended, is the Game
                                            and Fish Commission re-
                                            quired to issue a Commercial
                                            Bay-Bait Shrimp Boat license
                                            to any person who, for a
                                            valid reason, was unable or
                                            failed to make application
                                            during the months of January
                                            & February?

Dear Mr. Dodgen:

     You requested the opinion of this Department in a letter in which
two question6 were posed:

          "(1) Is the Game and Fish Commission required
     to issue Bay-Bait Shrimp Boat licenses to persons
     requesting to buy said licenses prior to the months
     of January and February who failed to make the re-
     quired remittance and renew the application during
     the months of January and February?

          "(2) Is the Game and Fish Commission required
     to issue a Commercial Bay-Bait Shrimp Boat license to
     any person who, for valid reason, was unable to or
     failed to make application during the months of
     January and February?"

     House Bill 12, Chapter 187, Acts of the 56th Legislature, Regular
Session, 1959, now found in Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes of Texas as
Article 4075b, provides in part as follows:
Honorable H. D. Dodgen, Page 2.   (ww - 846)

         "Sec. 5. It shall be unlawful for any Commercial
    Bay-Bait Shrimp Boat to be used for the purpose of
    taking or catching, or assisting in taking or catching,
    shrimp from the inside waters of Texas, without the
    owner thereof having first procured a license, to be
    known as a Commercial Bay-Bait Shrimp Boat License,
    from the Commission privileging such boat to be so used
    within the inside waters of Texas. The fee for a Com-
    mercial Bay-Bait Shrimp Boat License shall be Thirty Dol-
    lars ($3X?)and such License shall be issued for a period
    of one (1) year and shall expire March 1st of the year
    following the date of issuance, and shall be secured
    from and issued by the Commission only during the months
    of January and February of each year; the License shall
    include the right to use, operate and tow within the in-
    side waters of this State all shrimp trawls with which
    said boat is equipped, the use of which is not otherwise
    prohibited by Law, without the payment of any additional
    trawl license whatsoever, and said boat shall not be
    required to also have a "Commercial Fishing Boat License"
    as provided by Section 3 of Chapter 68 of the Acts of the
    Fifty-first Legislature of Texas, Regular Session, 1949,
    or other Statutes of this State; but the captain and each
    member of the crew of said boat shall be required to have
    a Commercial Fisherman's License issued by the Commission,
    and said boat shall be required to be licensed as a Commer-
    cial Gulf Shrimp Boat in order to operate \