Game and fish-fines.

WORKING DRAFT
2007
STATE OF
WYOMING
07LSO-0604

SENATE FILE
NO.
SF0153

Game and fish-fines.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Aullman

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to game and fish; increasing maximum fines for first through fourth degree misdemeanors; increasing penalties for poaching as specified; increasing penalties for false swearing as specified; 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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102(a) and (b), 23
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403(b) and 23
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6
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202(a)(i) through (iv) are amended to read:

23
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102.

Taking certain game animals without license or during a closed season prohibited.

(a)

Any person who takes any elk or moose without the proper license is guilty of a
4th
third
degree misdemeanor.

(b)

Any person who takes any bighorn sheep, mountain goat, mountain lion, grizzly bear or, gray wolf where classified as a trophy game animal, without the proper license except as otherwise permitted by this act is guilty of a
4th
second
degree misdemeanor.

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403.

False swearing, fraud or false statement prohibited.

(b)

Violation of this section constitutes a
fifth
second
degree misdemeanor.

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202.

Fines and sentences.

(a)

Any person who has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any offense under this act may be fined, sentenced to the county jail, or both, as follows:

(i)

Up to
two thousand dollars ($2,000.00)
ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00)
to which may be added imprisonment up to one (1) year when the offense is a 1st degree misdemeanor;

(ii)

Up to
one thousand dollars ($1,000.00)
five thousand dollars ($5,000.00)
to which may be added imprisonment up to one (1) year when the offense is a 2nd degree misdemeanor;

(iii)

Up to
six hundred dollars ($600.00)
two thousand dollars ($2,000.00)
to which may be added imprisonment up to one (1) year when the offense is a 3rd degree misdemeanor;

(iv)

Not less than two hundred dollars ($200.00) nor more than
seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00)
one thousand dollars ($1,000.00)
to which may be added imprisonment up to six (6) months when the offense is a 4th degree misdemeanor;

Section 2.

This act is effective July 1, 2007.

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