Youth Organization Exemption Law?

[tidejwe]

I now work for a non-profit organization which is COMPLETELY exempt from taxation under Section 501©(3), Internal Revenue Code; and we're required to take them out on activities every week anyway. We basically take in "troubled girls" from around the country and help them change their behaviors while they're seeing a therapist a few times a week, going to school etc basically at a boarding school building character, figuring out who they are, etc. We have 5 houses of 10 girls each, and my wife and I are in charge of one of the houses of 10 girls. ALL girls are from out of state. The girls have been wanting to go fishing with me, but a non-resident license is so expensive, and even a resident license would cost a lot to keep buying them every time we get a new girl. We're all excited for FREE FISHING DAY today when we wake up and we're finally going fishing with the girls for free, but I just found out tonight there is a law that supposedly EXEMPTS Non-profit Youth Organizations from having to have a license to fish! It is somewhat confusing though. Here is the form with the law:

[url "http://wildlife.utah.gov/fishing/pdf/youth_org_exemption.pdf"]http://wildlife.utah.gov/fishing/pdf/youth_org_exemption.pdf[/url]


I can read this multiple ways and am not sure which is the correct interpretation. I can read it to say that ANY non-profit Youth Organization can take their youth fishing free but must have this form with them. I also read it to
specify that only youth organizations who have youth under the age of 14 are qualified, but that's retarded because at the time this bill was passed, ANYONE under 14 was already able to fish for free without a license (just changed this year to make 12-14yr olds pay like $5). So that makes no sense to me...what's the point in having an exemption law for youth under 14 when all youth under 14 were already exempt from having to have a license?

The girls our organization takes in can range in age from 12 to 18. All of my 10 girls are 16 and 17 years old though. Does this law permit the Youth in our organization to fish free if it's one of our youth activities or not? The law is stupid and pointless if it is only referring to those under 14 because that age is ALREADY exempt. Any advice on where to get clarification or who to seek it from? It would be so wonderful to take our girls fishing once a month or so. Maybe if we don't qualify under this law, we can get other exceptions somehow. Any advice at all from anyone?
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[line_dangler]

Send an e-mail to the UDWR from their website [url "http://www.wildlife.utah.gov"]www.wildlife.utah.gov[/url]. Withing 2-4 days, one of the Captians or Sargeants from the Wildlife Law Enforcement Division will respond.

I checked out the link you had and am completely and thoroughly . I have learned that I cannot clear most legal issues by myself, that is why I just ask the DWR.
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[tidejwe]

Thanks for the suggestion. I emailed them and got a reply today. He quoted a different law ( 23-19-14 ) and showed me the details for that one. It appears we do actually qualify from what I read of the new rules, though I'm going to contact a lady he referred me to just to make sure because there are a few parts that kind of threw me off base a bit and made me unsure.
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[JadeCrew]

A nonprofit organization uses the funds to help achieve its goals like boarding school, [url "http://www.troubledteens.com/"]boot camp for troubled teens[/url]. They are able to earn a profit, more accurately termed a surplus, such earnings must be retained by the organization for its self-preservation, expansion, or plans.
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[tlspyder13]

Just a couple of points. First this isn't the first year that kids 12 and 13 had to have a license to fish. That law was passed at the same time as the exemption. The exemption was the only way they could get the public to buy in for the new license fee. The upside is that the state gets $7.5 from the federal government for each of the $5 licenses they sell. Also the little contact I have had in the youth fishing groups the DWR puts on with different cities have said the exemptions were only for kids 12 and 13. I would be very cautious about taking anyone over 13.
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