00                            HOUSE BILL NO. 144                                                                          
01 "An Act requiring nonresident hunters to be accompanied when hunting moose; and                                         
02 providing for an effective date."                                                                                       
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1.  AS 16.05.407(a) is amended to read:                                                                  
05            (a)  It is unlawful for a nonresident to hunt, pursue, or take brown bear, grizzly                           
06       bear, mountain goat, moose, or sheep in this state [,] unless personally accompanied                          
07       by                                                                                                                
08                 (1)  a person who is licensed as a registered guide, master guide, class-                               
09       A assistant guide, or an assistant guide under AS 08.54; or                                                       
10                 (2)  a resident over 19 years of age who is                                                             
11                      (A)  the spouse of the nonresident; or                                                             
12                      (B)  related to the nonresident, within and including the second                                   
13            degree of kindred, by marriage or blood.                                                                     
14    * Sec. 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2002.