Outfitters and guides-private property.

WORKING DRAFT
2006
STATE OF
WYOMING
06LSO-0256.E1

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0041

Outfitters and guides-private property.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Semlek and Senator(s) Townsend

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to outfitters and guides; authorizing landowners to use employees to guide on private property without a guide license; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.

W.S. 23
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2
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401(c) and 23
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2
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407(a) are amended to read:

23
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2
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401.

Guides required; exceptions; issuance of resident guide license.

(c)

A resident landowner

or member of his immediate family
or
a Wyoming resident who has been employed by the landowner full time for one (1) year or more
may guide hunters on land owned by or deeded land leased

for agricultural purposes
to
him
the landowner
without a guide license, or
he
the landowner
may authorize nonresidents
hunting
to hunt

without a guide on those lands. The license must bear the signature of the landowner
, lessee,
or

his
agent
of the owner on whose private property he is hunting
as evidence that permission to hunt has been granted.
For purpose of this subsection a "full-time employee" is a person whose primary employment responsibilities are connected with the agricultural uses of the land upon which he is guiding.

23
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2
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407.

License required for outfitters and professional guides.

(a)

No person shall hold himself out as, engage in the business of or act in the capacity of an outfitter or shall engage in the occupation of a professional guide as an independent contractor or as an agent or employee, unless he is licensed as an outfitter or professional guide pursuant to this act
or unless he is hired by a landowner
as provided in W.S. 23
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2
‑
401(c)
.

Section 2.
This act is effective July 1, 2006.

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