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2025 Delaware Code
Title 29 - State Government
Chapter 80. DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
Subchapter I. Natural Resources and Environmental Control
§ 8006A. Council on Recreational Fishing Funding.

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29 DE Code § 8006A (2025)
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§ 8006A. Council on Recreational Fishing Funding.

(a) There is established the Council on Recreational Fishing Funding.

(b) The Council on Recreational Fishing Funding shall serve in an advisory capacity to the Director of Fish and Wildlife and shall consider matters relative to funding of fishery-related projects as related to this State and such other matters as may be referred to it by the Governor, Secretary of the Department or Director of Fish and Wildlife.

(c) The Council on Recreational Fishing Funding shall be composed of 10 members as follows:

(1) Six members appointed by the Governor;

(2) One member appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate;

(3) One member appointed by the Speaker of the House;

(4) The President of the Delaware Mobile Surf Fisherman Association or a designee appointed by the President;

(5) The Director of the Division of Fish and Wildlife or a designee appointed by the Director to serve as an ex-officio nonvoting member.

(d) Appointments made by the Governor shall be appointed for a 3-year term and all other members shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority.

(e) The Council shall elect a Chair and Vice Chair.

(f) The Division ex-officio nonvoting member shall prepare minutes of each Council meeting. These minutes must be approved by a quorum of Council members in order to be official.

(g) All members of the Council shall serve without compensation, except that they may be reimbursed for reasonable and necessary expenses incident to their duties as members of the Council from the fishing license account.

(h) The Council shall meet no less than once per year. The Council shall provide nonbinding advice to the Department on fishery related construction priorities for the expenditure of funds generated from the sale of recreational fishing licenses in the coming year.

76 Del. Laws, c. 71, § 14;  82 Del. Laws, c. 96, § 1; 
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