Originally Posted By: BSK
Originally Posted By: Clem
If someone doesn't like the fact there are no term limits then work to get the language changed.


TN has a similar situation in that we have a Governor appointed Wildlife Commission that has the final say on all wildlife regulations. Luckily, they listen to the advice/recommendations of the Wildlife Agency's biologists most of the time, but the few problem members (those who used their position to personally benefit) were handled by doing exactly what Clem suggested--forcing term limits. That got rid of those Commission members who were using their position as a lifetime fiefdom.


We've got term limits here, but our governors just ignore them:

Quote:
Section 9-2-14
Advisory Board of Conservation and Natural Resources - Created; composition; qualifications, appointment, terms of office, and compensation of members; residency requirements; meetings; record of meetings and proceedings; transitional members.

(a) There shall be an Advisory Board of Conservation and Natural Resources. The board shall consist of the Governor, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, the Director of the Agricultural Extension System ex officio, and 10 other members to be appointed by the Governor, one of whom the Governor shall designate as chair of the Advisory Board of Conservation and Natural Resources. The appointed members of the board shall be selected with special reference to training and experience along one or more of the principal lines of activity vested in the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. The term of office of each appointed member of the board shall be six years. ...


If hunters interpreted the law like politicians do, there wouldn't be any need to have laws.

- Bag limit: kill the limit and then start another one
- Creel limit: catch the limit and then start another one
Reckon how that would work out??

But then they use a different standard:

Semi-annual: as many as you want to have
Salt: nothing but white salt and Trophy Rock Brand
Sunset: hunt 'til dark-thirty. We'll decide when dark-thirty is.
Game animal: feral hogs ... but hogs are a nuisance species and game laws don't apply... unless we decide they do
Antlerless deer season: depredation permits to kill and leave to rot
"Rules not in conflict with applicable statutes": do whatever we want to do
"Shall not be infringed": make rules restricting it anyhow

etc. etc.