28.2-302.2 - Recreational license fee; cooperative program. - Virginia Statutes

§ 28.2-302.2. Recreational license fee; cooperative program.

A. The annual fee for the saltwater recreational fishing license shall beseven dollars and fifty cents or as subsequently revised by the Commissionpursuant to § 28.2-201. Agents of the Commission shall retain the agent's feeestablished by the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries pursuant to subsectionB of § 29.1-327, except that the agent's fee shall be deducted from thelicense fee established by the Commission pursuant to subdivision 4 of §28.2-201, as compensation for issuing each license.

B. All funds collected under this section shall be paid into the statetreasury to the credit of the Virginia Saltwater Recreational FishingDevelopment Fund, as established in § 28.2-302.3.

C. The Commission shall enter into cooperative programs with the Departmentof Game and Inland Fisheries as are necessary to carry out the provisions ofthis section.

D. The Commission shall also have the power necessary to conduct andestablish cooperative fish projects with the federal government as prescribedby Congress and in compliance with rules and regulations promulgated by theUnited States Secretary of the Interior.

E. Upon implementation of an automated point-of-sale licensing system,licenses issued under this section shall be valid for one year from theirdate of purchase.

(1992, c. 895; 2001, c. 115; 2007, c. 30; 2009, c. 9.)