Montana Attorney General Opinion 15-225

Opinion No. 225 Fish amI Game-Licenses-Aliens -Japanese. HELD: A resident fishing license may not issue to an alien .Japllnf'se. inl'ligihle to citizenship. i\lay 31. 1933. You request my opinion on the right of an alien Japanese, ineligible to citi- 7.enship, to secnre a re~iderit fishing li- cense. The law appears to be plain that such a license cannot issue. Sec. 3685, R. C, 1\1. 1921, provides in part: .. * * * said applicant, if an alien, resident or non-resident, shall pay to the officer * * *" said fees for licenses described in that paragraph. As the language is certain and definite, that paragraph must control. and an alien must com- ply with its i)roYisions lind IIOt the pro- dsions in relation to resident licenses, which ;provisions Illso state that they apply to "said applicant if a !'esident of the State of l\lontana and a citizen of the United States." The fee required from aliens and not the fee required from resi<1ellt citizens must therefore control in this case.