Under existing law, the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources may issue an annual permit to a person at a cost of $25 authorizing the person to possess wildlife for public exhibition purposes.
This bill would allow the commissioner to also establish reasonable and necessary fees in amounts sufficient to cover the costs of administering and enforcing the wildlife public exhibition regulations.
This bill would also delete the provision that the wildlife public exhibition regulations do not apply to privately owned traveling zoos and would provide that the regulations do not apply to four-year universities, provided that the guidelines of the institutions' Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee are followed.
Further Consideration
Holley motion to Carry Over adopted Voice Vote
Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry Amendment Offered
Third Reading Carried Over
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 795
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Agriculture and Forestry
Source: Alabama Legislature