Georgia Code
Article 1 - Hunting, Trapping, or Fishing
§ 27-2-8. Commercial Fishing Boat Licenses

History. Ga. L. 1919, p. 237, § 3; Ga. L. 1924, p. 116, § 35; Ga. L. 1931, p. 7, § 25; Code 1933, §§ 45-209, 45-210, 45-211; Ga. L. 1937-38, Ex. Sess., p. 255, § 1; Ga. L. 1939, p. 185, § 1; Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 527, §§ 1-12; Ga. L. 1955, p. 483, § 34; Ga. L. 1956, p. 590, § 4; Ga. L. 1967, p. 634, § 4; Ga. L. 1968, p. 202, § 1; Ga. L. 1974, p. 420, §§ 1, 2; Code 1933, § 45-305, enacted by Ga. L. 1977, p. 396, § 1; Ga. L. 1978, p. 816, § 25; Ga. L. 1981, p. 823, § 3; Ga. L. 2017, p. 27, § 9/HB 208.
The 2017 amendment, effective July 1, 2017, substituted “length: $85.00” for “length, $50.00” in paragraphs (b)(1) and (b)(2); added “and” at the end of paragraph (b)(2); substituted “regardless of length: $5.00” for “up to and including 18 feet in overall length, $5.00;” in paragraph (b)(3); deleted former paragraph (b)(4), which read: “All boats, other than trawlers, over 18 feet in overall length, $5.00 plus 50¢ per foot or fraction thereof in excess of 18 feet”; in subsection (c), near the middle, substituted “$150.00” for “$25.00”, inserted “trawl”, and inserted “and $50.00 for each boat or vessel other than a trawler used”; and added subsection (d). See Editor’s note for applicability.
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2017, p. 27, § 20/HB 208, not codified by the General Assembly, provides, in part, that the amendment of this Code section by that Act shall be applicable to all offenses occurring on or after July 1, 2017.

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