§ 20-2-2. Issuance of licenses.
Any person or corporation appointed by the director as provided in § 20-2-1 shall, upon the application of any person entitled to receive a license under this chapter and upon payment of the specified license fee, register and issue to that person a license, either printed or displayed electronically on a mobile device, so long as the certificate provides all of the information requested in the data fields identified by the department. The certificate shall bear the name, age, occupation, place of residence, signature, and identifying description of the registrant and shall authorize the registrant to fish or shellfish, or to pursue, hunt, and kill game in the state of Rhode Island during those seasons and in those manners and according to those conditions, as shall be provided by law; provided, however, that these authorized agents shall not have authority to issue lobster, commercial shellfish, or commercial fishing licenses of any kind.
History of Section.P.L. 1981, ch. 197, § 3; P.L. 1998, ch. 441, § 14; P.L. 2016, ch. 130, § 1; P.L. 2016, ch. 136, § 1; P.L. 2018, ch. 317, § 1; P.L. 2018, ch. 350, § 1.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Section 20-2-2. - Issuance of licenses.
Section 20-2-2.1. - Expiration date.
Section 20-2-3. - Record of licenses issued — Accounting for fees.
Section 20-2-4. - Authorized agents fee.
Section 20-2-4.1. - Authorized internet agent.
Section 20-2-5. - Replacement of lost or destroyed certificate.
Section 20-2-6. - Appropriation of license fees.
Section 20-2-7. - Use of license proceeds.
Section 20-2-8. - False statements and violations — Cancellation of license.
Section 20-2-9. - Possession, inspection, and display of license.
Section 20-2-10. - Endorsement of license.
Section 20-2-11. - Transfer or loan of license.
Section 20-2-12. - Application for license.
Section 20-2-13. - License revocation.
Section 20-2-14. - Licenses — Expiration.
Section 20-2-15. - Freshwater fishing license.
Section 20-2-16. - Hunting license.
Section 20-2-16.1. - Shooting preserves.
Section 20-2-17. - Combination fishing and hunting license.
Section 20-2-18. - Deer permits.
Section 20-2-18.1. - Wild turkey permits.
Section 20-2-18.2. - Stocked game bird permits required.
Section 20-2-18.3. - Stocked game bird permit fees and bag limits.
Section 20-2-19. - Commercial minnow license.
Section 20-2-22. - Nonresident’s noncommercial shellfish license.
Section 20-2-24. - Recreational lobster license.
Section 20-2-26.1. - Repealed.
Section 20-2-27.1. - Rhode Island party and charter vessel license.
Section 20-2-27.2. - Repealed.
Section 20-2-28.1. - Repealed.
Section 20-2-28.2. - Deposit of fees.
Section 20-2-29. - Commercial game licenses.
Section 20-2-30. - Fur trapping and licenses.
Section 20-2-31. - Hunting and fishing licenses — Exceptions.
Section 20-2-32. - Inspections condition of license.
Section 20-2-33. - Altering and counterfeiting a license.
Section 20-2-34. - Definitions.
Section 20-2-35. - Waterfowl stamp required.
Section 20-2-36. - Waterfowl stamp design, production, and distribution.
Section 20-2-37. - Waterfowl stamp fees.
Section 20-2-38. - Disposition of waterfowl receipts.
Section 20-2-38.1. - Grants, donations, and gifts to the waterfowl fund.
Section 20-2-39. - Definitions.
Section 20-2-40. - Trout conservation stamp required.
Section 20-2-41. - Trout conservation stamp design, production, and distribution.
Section 20-2-42. - Trout conservation stamp fee.
Section 20-2-43. - Disposition of trout conservation stamp receipts.