1. (A) The department must suspend for one year the related saltwater privileges and associated licenses and permits issued to a person or entity that has accumulated eighteen or more points under any point category. Privileges related to each point category are as follows:

   1. (1) commercial: commercial saltwater fishing license, equipment license, and bait dealer license, and
   2. (2) recreational: recreational saltwater fishing license, pier license, charter fishing vessel license, shrimp baiting license, and any other saltwater licenses utilized for recreational purposes.
2. (B) Any suspension under this article begins the twenty-first day after the department mails written notice of the suspension and ends the same day the following year.

HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 245, Section 13; 2002 Act No. 342, Section 43; 2023 Act No. 64 (H.3433), Section 2.A, eff May 19, 2023.

Effect of Amendment

2023 Act No. 64, Section 2.A, rewrote the section.