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- 83rd Session (2025)
Senate Bill No. 215–Senators Titus and Daly
Joint Sponsors: Assemblymembers Watts and Yurek
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AN ACT relating to wildlife; requiring the Board of Wildlife
Commissioners to adopt regulations providing for the
issuance of salvage permits; providing an exception to certain
prohibitions relating to wildlife; and providing other matters
properly relating thereto.
Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
Existing law requires the Board of Wildlife Commissioners to establish certain
policies and adopt certain regulations to carry out and to enforce certain provisions
relating to wildlife. (NRS 501.181) Section 1 of this bill: (1) requires the Commission
to adopt regulations requiring the Department of Wildlife to issue salvage permits that
authorize a person to salvage and collect any wildlife killed as a result of a vehicle
collision or any other incidental event; and (2) prohibits the Commission from
prescribing a fee for the issuance of a salvage permit. Section 1 additionally provides
that the Commission may, by regulation, prohibit the Department from issuing
salvage permits if any wildlife in this State is con firmed to have tested positive for
chronic wasting disease.
In addition to regular hunting licenses and trapping licenses, existing law requires
a person to have a tag to hunt certain species of game mammals and authorizes the
Commission to require tags in certain other circumstances. (NRS 502.130) If tags are
required, existing law prohibits a person from possessing any of that species, or parts
thereof, without the correct tag. (NRS 502.150) Subject to certain exceptions, existing
law prohibits any person from having in his or her control any wildlife or any part
thereof, during the time when the killing of such wildlife is prohibited. (NRS 503.030)
Sections 2 and 3 of this bill provide that a person holding a salvage permit issued by
regulation of the Commission adopted pursuant to section 1 is exempted from those
prohibitions.
EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Chapter 501 of NRS is hereby amended by adding
thereto a new section to read as follows:
1. The Commission shall adopt regulations requiring the
Department to issue salvage permits that authorize a person to
salvage and collect any wildlife killed as a result of a vehi cle
collision or any other incidental event. The regulations adopted by
the Commission pursuant to this section may prohibit the
Department from issuing salvage permits if any wildlife in this
State is confirmed to have tested positive for chronic wasting
disease.
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2. The Commission may not prescribe a fee for the issuance
of a salvage permit pursuant to the regulations of the Commission
adopted pursuant to this section.
Sec. 2. NRS 502.150 is hereby amended to read as follows:
502.150 1. [Whenever] Except as otherwise provided in the
regulations adopted by the Commission pursuant to section 1 of
this act, whenever tags are required for any species of wildlife, it is
unlawful to have any of that species in possession without the
correct tag. Before transporting any species of wildlife, or parts
thereof, for which a tag is required, the holder of:
(a) A paper tag must attach the tag to the animal; or
(b) An electronic tag must validate the tag in accordance with
the r egulations adopted by the Commission pursuant to
NRS 502.160.
Possession of any species of wildlife, or parts thereof, for which a
tag is required without an attached or validated tag, as applicable, is
prima facie evidence that the game is illegally taken and possessed.
2. It is unlawful to remove any tag from any wildlife for reuse
or to be in possession of excess tags or used tags.
3. [Whenever] Except as otherwise provided in the
regulations adopted by the Commission pursuant to section 1 of
this act, whenever tags are required for any species of fur -bearing
mammal, possession of a pelt of that species without the tag
attached thereto or validated, as applicable, is prima facie evidence
that such pelt is illegally taken and possessed.
Sec. 3. NRS 503.030 is hereby amended to read as follows:
503.030 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section [,] or
in the regulations adopted by the Commission pursuant to section
1 of this act, it is unlawful for any person to have in his or her
control any wildlife or any part thereof, the killing of which is at any
time prohibited, during the time when such killing is prohibited, and
the possession of such wildlife shall be prima facie evidence that it
was the property of the State at the time it was caught, taken or
killed in this State when the killing was unlawful, and that such
taking or killing occurred in the closed season.
2. Wildlife legally taken may be stored in the home of the
owner after the end of the open season for hunting or fishing for it
and may be stored in a public warehouse or commercial refrigerator
locker under such rules as may be adopted by the Commission, but
in no case shall more than the amount designated by law as the legal
possession limit be so kept or stored.
3. The Commission is authorized to make rules requiring
evidence of legal taking in this State, or legal taking under the laws
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of the state where taken, to be provided in the case of wildlife kept
or stored after the appropriate open season ends in the form of tags,
certificates or otherwise, if deemed necessary or convenient for the
enforcement of this title.
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