00                             HOUSE BILL NO. 249                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to regulations adopted by the Big Game Commercial Services Board                                       
02 and to the definition of 'transportation services' in relation to big game hunting."                                    
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1. AS 08.54.600(c) is amended to read:                                                                   
05            (c)  The board may adopt regulations as the board considers appropriate to                                   
06                 (1)  establish a code of ethics for professions regulated by the board;                                 
07                 (2)  establish requirements for the contents of written contracts to                                    
08       provide big game hunting services and transportation services to clients;                                         
09                 (3)  authorize the department to request a copy of a big game hunting                                   
10       services or transportation services contract entered into by a person licensed under this                         
11       chapter;                                                                                                      
12                 (4)  regulate                                                                                       
13                      (A)  registered guide-outfitters allowed in a guide use area;                                  
14                      (B)  licensed transporters allowed in a transporter use area;                                  
01            and                                                                                                      
02                      (C)  clients of big game hunting services allowed in a guide                                   
03            use area.                                                                                                
04    * Sec. 2. AS 08.54.750(g) is amended to read:                                                                      
05            (g)  At least 60 days before providing transportation services to, from, or in an                            
06       area as may be determined by the board, a transporter shall inform the department, in                             
07       person or by registered mail on a registration form provided by the department, that                              
08       the transporter will be providing transportation services to, from, or in the use area.                           
09       The board shall [MAY] establish transporter use areas that match the geographic                           
10       boundaries of guide use areas and may adopt regulations to implement this                                 
11       subsection as the board considers necessary.                                                                      
12    * Sec. 3. AS 08.54.790(10) is amended to read:                                                                     
13                 (10)  "transportation services" means the carriage for compensation of                                  
14       big game hunters, their equipment, or big game animals harvested by hunters to, from,                             
15       or in the field; "transportation services" does not include the carriage by aircraft of big                       
16       game hunters, their equipment, or big game animals harvested by hunters                                           
17                      [(A)]  on nonstop flights between airports listed in the Alaska                                    
18            supplement to the Airmen's Guide published by the Federal Aviation                                           
19            Administration [; OR                                                                                         
20                      (B)  BY AN AIR TAXI OPERATOR OR AIR CARRIER FOR                                                    
21            WHICH THE CARRIAGE OF BIG GAME HUNTERS, THEIR                                                                
22            EQUIPMENT, OR BIG GAME ANIMALS HARVESTED BY HUNTERS IS                                                       
23            ONLY AN INCIDENTAL PORTION OF ITS BUSINESS; IN THIS                                                          
24            SUBPARAGRAPH, "INCIDENTAL" MEANS TRANSPORTATION                                                              
25            PROVIDED TO A BIG GAME HUNTER BY AN AIR TAXI OPERATOR                                                        
26            OR AIR CARRIER WHO DOES NOT                                                                                  
27                           (i)  CHARGE MORE THAN THE USUAL TARIFF                                                        
28                 OR CHARTER RATE FOR THE CARRIAGE OF BIG GAME                                                            
29                 HUNTERS, THEIR EQUIPMENT, OR BIG GAME ANIMALS                                                           
30                 HARVESTED BY HUNTERS; OR                                                                                
31                           (ii)  ADVERTISE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES                                                       
01                 OR BIG GAME HUNTING SERVICES TO THE PUBLIC; IN THIS                                                     
02                 SUB-SUBPARAGRAPH, "ADVERTISE" MEANS SOLICITING BIG                                                      
03                 GAME HUNTERS TO BE CUSTOMERS OF AN AIR TAXI                                                             
04                 OPERATOR OR AIR CARRIER FOR THE PURPOSE OF                                                              
05                 PROVIDING AIR TRANSPORTATION TO, FROM, OR IN THE                                                        
06                 FIELD THROUGH THE USE OF PRINT OR ELECTRONIC                                                            
07                 MEDIA, INCLUDING ADVERTISING AT TRADE SHOWS, OR                                                         
08                 THE USE OF HUNT BROKER SERVICES OR OTHER                                                                
09                 PROMOTIONAL SERVICES].