§ 33-5-20 — Special Agents to Sell Boat Licenses

Alabama § 33-5-20

• Jurisdiction: Alabama
• Title 33: Navigation and Watercourses
• Ch. 5: Registration and Operation of Vessels
• Art. 1: General Provisions

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(a) (1) The sheriffs of this state may be designated as special agents to sell boat licenses.
(2) The secretary may appoint other special agents to sell boat licenses; provided, however, that any special agent appointed pursuant to this subdivision shall be bonded for not less than five thousand dollars ($5,000).
(b) Special agents shall receive licenses from ALEA in the same manner as the judges of probate and license commissioners and shall make any reports and be subject to any audits as the secretary may specify. Special agents shall make returns to ALEA in the same manner as judges of probate and license commissioners.
(c) The secretary may cancel a special agent’s authority to sell licenses at any time.
(d) Special agents shall be entitled to an issuance fee of two dollars ($2).
(e) Any special agent selling licenses in excess of the cost of licenses as herein specified shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor.

Legislative History

(Acts 1959, No. 576, p. 1442, §32; Act 2007-420, p. 896, §1; Act 2023-363, §1.)