Reference is to Printer's Date 2/25/16 -H.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION:
/ SECTION ( ) Chapter 1, Title 50 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 50-1-95. (A)
The Department of Natural Resources shall establish a
Coyote Management Program to study ways to reduce the State's
coyote population and implement mechanisms to be used by the
department and the public to accomplish this goal.
(B) The department may
establish statewide electronic check stations to accomplish the
goal of reducing the State's coyote population.
(c) One hundred
twenty-five dollars of the non-resident fee charged for the
privilege of taking deer must be used to administer the Coyote
Management Program.
(D) Twenty-five dollars
of the resident and non-resident fee for the privilege of taking
deer must be used as follows:
(1)
eighty percent to administer the tag program, deer
management and research, and Coyote Management Program; and
(2)
twenty percent for law enforcement."
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.