Arizona 2023 Regular Session

Arizona House Bill HB2521 Compare Versions

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1	1	REFERENCE TITLE: native plants; salvage permit applications State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-sixth Legislature First Regular Session 2023 HB 2521 Introduced by Representatives Stahl Hamilton: Aguilar, Austin, Bravo, Cano, Contreras P, De Los Santos, Mathis, Schwiebert, Seaman, Travers An Act amending section 3-908, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to Arizona native plants. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
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9	9	REFERENCE TITLE: native plants; salvage permit applications
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68	68	amending section 3-908, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to Arizona native plants.
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78	78	Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: Section 1. Section 3-908, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read: START_STATUTE3-908. Prohibited acts; use of permits, tags, seals and receipts; definition A. Except as provided in this chapter, it is unlawful for a person to destroy, dig up, mutilate, collect, cut, harvest or take any living highly safeguarded native plant or the living parts of any highly safeguarded native plant, including seeds or fruit, or any other living protected native plant or the living parts of any other protected plant, except seeds or fruit, from state land or public land without obtaining any required permit, tags, seals or receipts from the department, or from private land without obtaining written permission from the landowner, and any required permit, tags, seals or receipts from the department. It is unlawful for a person to falsify any paper or document issued to give permission for permit a person to take native plants of the protected group or to take more protected native plants than authorized by the permit or to take protected native plants from areas other than authorized by the permit. B. Permits issued for the removal of protected native plants, or any parts of protected native plants, except permits issued for the salvage of salvage assessed native plants, shall be granted only on submission to the division of an application executed by both the landowner or his the landowner's agent and the party who that intends to be the permittee, after being completed by either or both, and are valid for a stated period of time to allow the permittee to remove the specific amount of plants, by-products, fiber or wood stated in the permit, or that period of time stated by the landowner as part of the landowner's permission, whichever is shorter. The permit expires on the termination date shown on the permit, when the tags and seals issued with the permit have been attached to the plants covered by the permit and the plants are no longer in the possession of the permittee or when the receipts have been transferred to the purchaser of the wood covered by the receipts. C. A permit is valid for taking plants or parts of plants listed on the permit but not removed from the land described in the permit until the permit's expiration or for one year from the date of issuance, whichever occurs first, except that for any permit the tags and seals, or receipts, issued therewith with the permit but not yet used by the permittee become invalid if the land on which the plants are growing, and described in the permit, changes ownership, unless the new owner landowner certifies in writing that the permittee may continue taking the plants or parts of plants as specified on the permit. D. It is unlawful for a person or A scientific or educational institution to misuse a permit in any manner. A permittee shall make permits, tags, seals and receipts available for inspection by the department or any peace officer as provided for in this chapter. A tag, seal or receipt is invalid unless it is issued with a valid permit. A permit is invalid unless it bears the required tag numbers or receipt numbers on its face. It is unlawful to alter or deface any permit, tag, seal or receipt. E. The director may give written permission for any the following: 1. A person or a scientific institution to take a definite number of specified plants in a protected group from areas specified by the department for scientific purposes. In addition the director may give written permission for 2. A person to take specific plants or parts of plants not in the highly safeguarded category from areas specified by the department for salvage or for manufacturing or processing purposes or for the cutting or removal of removing the wood and assess reasonable and proper fees for such taking of the plants or parts of the plants. The director may give written permission for 3. A landowner to transfer specified plants in the protected group from land he the landowner owns to another property owned by him the landowner, and such permits shall be are exempt from fees. F. for the purposes of this section, "landowner's agent" includes the environmental manager or project manager who is employed by the company that is clearing the land. END_STATUTE
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80	80	Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
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82	82	Section 1. Section 3-908, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
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84	84	START_STATUTE3-908. Prohibited acts; use of permits, tags, seals and receipts; definition
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86	86	A. Except as provided in this chapter, it is unlawful for a person to destroy, dig up, mutilate, collect, cut, harvest or take any living highly safeguarded native plant or the living parts of any highly safeguarded native plant, including seeds or fruit, or any other living protected native plant or the living parts of any other protected plant, except seeds or fruit, from state land or public land without obtaining any required permit, tags, seals or receipts from the department, or from private land without obtaining written permission from the landowner, and any required permit, tags, seals or receipts from the department. It is unlawful for a person to falsify any paper or document issued to give permission for permit a person to take native plants of the protected group or to take more protected native plants than authorized by the permit or to take protected native plants from areas other than authorized by the permit.
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88	88	B. Permits issued for the removal of protected native plants, or any parts of protected native plants, except permits issued for the salvage of salvage assessed native plants, shall be granted only on submission to the division of an application executed by both the landowner or his the landowner's agent and the party who that intends to be the permittee, after being completed by either or both, and are valid for a stated period of time to allow the permittee to remove the specific amount of plants, by-products, fiber or wood stated in the permit, or that period of time stated by the landowner as part of the landowner's permission, whichever is shorter. The permit expires on the termination date shown on the permit, when the tags and seals issued with the permit have been attached to the plants covered by the permit and the plants are no longer in the possession of the permittee or when the receipts have been transferred to the purchaser of the wood covered by the receipts.
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90	90	C. A permit is valid for taking plants or parts of plants listed on the permit but not removed from the land described in the permit until the permit's expiration or for one year from the date of issuance, whichever occurs first, except that for any permit the tags and seals, or receipts, issued therewith with the permit but not yet used by the permittee become invalid if the land on which the plants are growing, and described in the permit, changes ownership, unless the new owner landowner certifies in writing that the permittee may continue taking the plants or parts of plants as specified on the permit.
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92	92	D. It is unlawful for a person or A scientific or educational institution to misuse a permit in any manner. A permittee shall make permits, tags, seals and receipts available for inspection by the department or any peace officer as provided for in this chapter. A tag, seal or receipt is invalid unless it is issued with a valid permit. A permit is invalid unless it bears the required tag numbers or receipt numbers on its face. It is unlawful to alter or deface any permit, tag, seal or receipt.
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94	94	E. The director may give written permission for any the following:
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96	96	1. A person or a scientific institution to take a definite number of specified plants in a protected group from areas specified by the department for scientific purposes. In addition the director may give written permission for
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98	98	2. A person to take specific plants or parts of plants not in the highly safeguarded category from areas specified by the department for salvage or for manufacturing or processing purposes or for the cutting or removal of removing the wood and assess reasonable and proper fees for such taking of the plants or parts of the plants. The director may give written permission for
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100	100	3. A landowner to transfer specified plants in the protected group from land he the landowner owns to another property owned by him the landowner, and such permits shall be are exempt from fees.
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102	102	F. for the purposes of this section, "landowner's agent" includes the environmental manager or project manager who is employed by the company that is clearing the land. END_STATUTE