2024 mussel aware test

[dubob]

Upon further research, this functions like a parks pass - it expires 12/31 of each year, and you need a new one 1/1 of each year, for the calendar year.

Registration anniversary is unrelated, because they pulled the $10 AIS fee out of the DMV registration fees and turned it over to the DWR (who doubled the price, or course).

Based on what I have read on the subject, I think you may be right about the decal being required as of 1/1/2024 regardless of when your boat registration expires in 2024.  But Scott may be better informed and his statement may be what the state agency running the program interoperates the law to mean.

The DWR did NOT double the fee. The Utah State Legislature did in the 2023 Legislative Session with SB 112.  The old $10 fee was simply collected and placed in an account by the DMV with no extra paperwork required and no decal issued.  The new $20 fee requires a new collection system by a different state agency along with issuing a certificate and a decal.  Sorry, but there just AIN'T no free lunch.  There are almost always going to be cost increases associated with changing a government program or system.