An Act to prohibit the taking of grayling from the waters of this State. [Act 7, P. A. Ex. Sess. 1919.] The People of the State of Michigan enact: UNLAWFUL TO TAKE GRAYLING. (77) SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to take or attempt to take any grayling by any means whatever from the waters of this State. (78) PENALTY. SEC. 2. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall upon conviction be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars or be committed to the county jail for not more than sixty days or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. NON-RESIDENT ANGLER'S LICENSE. An Act to provide for an angler's license for non-residents of the State to take or catch or attempt to take or catch fish with hook and line in the lakes and streams within the jurisdiction of the State of Michigan; to provide that licensees may take from the State one day's legal catch; to provide for the issuance of licenses and collection of fees therefor; to authorize and regulate the disbursement of license fees collected; to provide a penalty for the violation of this act, and to repeal act number three hundred twenty-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred thirteen. (a) (79) [Act 263, P. A. 1915.] The People of the State of Michigan enact: NON-RESIDENT TO HAVE ANGLER'S LICENSE. § 7736. SECTION 1. No person over twenty-one years of age who is a non-resident of the State of Michigan shall take or catch or attempt to take or catch with a hook and line in any of the lakes and streams within the jurisdiction of the State of Michigan any fish of any kind without having in his or her possession an unexpired angler's license as hereinafter provided for. Am. 1919, Act 394. WHO TO ISSUE LICENSES.--HOW FURNISHED.-LIFE OF LICENSE (80) § 7737. SEC. 2. All county clerks, their deputies, all city, village or township clerks who may apply therefor, and the State game, fish and forestry warden, and his deputies, or any other proper and competent person or persons to whom the State board of fish commissioners may sell licenses in accordance with the provisions of this act, are hereby authorized to issue licenses in accordance with the provisions of this act. The State board of fish commissioners shall furnish county clerks, all city, village and township clerks who may apply therefor, and the State game, fish and forestry warden with a sufficient number of (a) Title Am. 1919, Act 394. license blanks in book form; each leaf of the license book shall have printed thereon a blank form of license with stub, in duplicate, one of which shall be returned to the State board of fish commissioners and kept on file for reference. When all the conditions of this act have been compiled with the license shall be issued to the applicant, which shall be his authority to fish in Michigan waters in accordance with its terms. Licenses so issued shall be good only for the calendar year during which such licenses are issued and shall be valid anywhere in the State. Licenses shall be numbered and shall provide for the insertion of the name, age, height, color of hair and eyes, post office address and place of residence of licensee and shall bear the fac simile signature of the president of the State board of fish commissioners. There shall be attached to each non-resident general license issued, two shipping slips or coupons designated bass and trout respectively, and on each non-resident special license issued, a shipping slip or coupon designated bass in such manner or form as shall be prescribed by the State board of fish commissioners, to carry out the provisions of section five of this act. FEES. GENERAL AND SPECIAL LICENSES.--DISPOSITION OF FEES. ANGLER'S LICENSE FUND. (81) § 7738. SEC. 3. The fee for each license issued under the provisions of this act authorizing the licensee to fish for all kinds of fish shall be three dollars, which license shall be designated and known as a general license. The fee for a license to fish for all kinds of fish except grayling, land-locked salmon and all kinds of trout shall be one dollar and such license shall be designated and known as a special license. All license fees so collected shall be paid to the State board of fish commissioners and by them into the State treasury quarterly: Provided, That all public officials hereby authorized to issue licenses and collect license fees, may retain ten per cent of all moneys received by them for licenses issued, in full payment for their services in issuing and collecting. The State treasurer shall place all moneys received from such license fees to the credit of a fund to be known as the angler's license fund, which shall be used by the State board of fish commissioners for the purposes necessary in the propagation and distribution of fish, including the acquiring of lands, construction of ponds, buildings and equipment, and such other purposes as are authorized by act number sixty-three, public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five. Am. 1919, Act 394. SALE OF LICENSES.-DISPOSITION USED. OF FUNDS RECEIVED.-HOW (82) § 7739. SEC. 4. The State board of fish commissioners is authorized to sell non-resident angler's licenses provided for in this act to any proper and competent person, firm or corporation, in pads of not less than five licenses with stubs of each kind ordered: Provided, That licenses so sold shall be paid for in advance at their face value less a discount of ten per cent. Said board of fish commissioners is hereby authorized and directed to refund at actual cost price to such purchasers for all unsold licenses whenever same are returned to the office of said board. All moneys thus received from the sale of non-resident angler's licenses by said board of fish commissioners shall be turned into the State treasurer, quarterly, and by him credited up to the angler's license fund: Provided, That not to exceed three thousand dollars may be retained as a reserve fund for the purpose of refunding for unsold licenses returned. In case that the unsold licenses returned exceed the sum reserved for payment thereof, the auditor general is hereby authorized to issue his warrant or warrants upon the State treasurer for the payment of such excess upon proper proof and showing by the board of State fish commissioners; and such payment to be made from the "angler's license fund." Within sixty days after the close of each calendar year, the auditor general shall audit the books and records of the State board of fish commissioners and determine and collect the amount, if any, remaining in the reserve fund and due the State under the provisions of this section, and shall report to the State treasurer and turn over to him the moneys so collected. All revenues accruing under the provisions of this section shall be used for the same purpose as provided in section three of this act, and by the same authority. SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF STATE. (83) § 7740. SEC. 5. Any person complying with the provisions of this act shall be entitled to take or ship without the limits of this State not to exceed one day's legal catch of fish as provided for by the laws of this State: Provided, There shall be attached to the package or parcel containing such fish a coupon provided for in section two of this act. RETURN OF LICENSE BLANKS, OR STUBS.-SWORN STATEMENT. (84) § 7741. SEC. 6. Within thirty days after the close of a calendar year each county clerk, each city, village and township clerk who shall have undertaken the issuance of licenses hereunder, and the State game, fish and forestry warden shall return to the State board of fish commissioners all unsold license blanks complete, together with one stub of each license sold by him during the preceding calendar year, together with a sworn statement showing the number of licenses received by him from the State board of fish commissioners, the number of licenses sold and the number of licenses returned unsold to the State board of fish commissioners, the amount of money paid to the State board of fish commissioners and the amount of money kept by him for fees for the sale of licenses in accordance with this act. RIGHTS CONFERRED. (85) § 7742. SEC. 7. Licenses issued under the provisions of this act confer no fishing rights or privileges not enjoyed by residents of this State, except the right to take or ship a day's legal catch outside the State, as provided for in section five of this act. PENALTY. (86) § 7743. SEC. 8. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than fifty dollars or be committed to the county jail for not more than thirty days or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court, and the license granted hereunder to him shall from thence henceforth be considered revoked and surrendered. |