00                       SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 201                                                                   
01 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to providing                                 
02 for priorities for and among subsistence uses in the allocation of fish, wildlife, and other                            
03 renewable resources.                                                                                                    
04 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
05    * Section 1.  Article VIII, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended by adding a new                        
06 section to read:                                                                                                        
07            Section 19.  Priorities for Subsistence Uses.  (a)  The policy of the State of                             
08       Alaska is to recognize the subsistence tradition of the indigenous peoples of Alaska                              
09       and to accord a priority to customary and traditional subsistence uses in the allocation                          
10       of fish, wildlife, and other renewable resources.                                                                 
11            (b)  The legislature shall provide that, whenever it is necessary under the                                  
12       sustained yield principle to impose any restrictions on the taking of a fish, wildlife, or                        
13       other renewable resource, the customary and traditional subsistence uses of that                                  
14       resource by rural residents in the area of the State in which those customary and                                 
15       traditional uses have occurred shall receive priority over all other consumptive uses of                          
01       the resource.  When a renewable resource is not sufficient to satisfy all customary and                           
02       traditional subsistence uses, priorities among subsistence users shall be based on                                
03       customary and direct dependence on the resource as the mainstay of livelihood,                                    
04       proximity to the resource, and the availability of alternative resources.                                         
05            (c)  The legislature may grant lower priorities for subsistence uses to other                                
06       residents of the State who demonstrate customary and traditional use of a fish,                                   
07       wildlife, or other renewable resource.  These priorities may be granted so long as they                           
08       do not diminish the subsistence priority of rural residents of the State.                                         
09    * Sec. 2.  The amendment proposed by this resolution shall be placed before the voters of                          
10 the state at the next general election in conformity with art. XIII, sec. 1, Constitution of the                        
11 State of Alaska, and the election laws of the state.