A.__The person held a license as follows:

(1)__For a person appealing the denial of a lobster and crab fishing license, the person held a lobster and crab fishing license for at least 5 consecutive years within the last 15 years;

(2)__For a person appealing the denial of an elver fishing license, the person held an elver fishing license for at least 2 consecutive years within the last 4 years; or

(3)__For a person appealing the denial of a handfishing sea urchin license, a sea urchin dragging license or a sea urchin hand-raking and trapping license, the person held a sea urchin harvesting license for at least 4 consecutive years within the last 7 years; and

B.__The person documents that:

(1)__A substantial illness or other medical condition on the part of the person or a family member prevented that person from meeting the eligibility requirements for a license.__The person must provide the board with documentation from a physician describing the illness or other medical condition.__For the purposes of this subparagraph, "family member" means a spouse, brother, sister, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, parent by blood, parent by adoption, mother-in-law, father-in-law, child by blood, child by adoption, stepchild, stepparent, grandchild or grandparent;

(2)__Service in the United States Armed Forces or the United States Coast Guard precluded that person from participating in the fishery and meeting the eligibility requirements for a license; or

(3)__That person did not possess a license in the previous calendar year because the commissioner had suspended the person's license privileges for a period of time that included the previous calendar year.

8.__Lobster license transfer.__Notwithstanding subsection 7, upon recommendation by the board, the commissioner may transfer the Class I, Class II or Class III lobster and crab fishing