Game & fish-pioneer licenses.

WORKING DRAFT
2011
STATE OF
WYOMING
11LSO-0202

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0258

Game & fish-pioneer licenses.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Barbuto

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
game and fish; providing for issuance of pioneer licenses based on collective years of residency;
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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705(d)
,
(e)(i) and (ii) is amended to read:

23
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705.

Complimentary licenses; one-shot antelope hunt licenses; gunpowder and buckskin hunt licenses; gratuitous licenses.

(d)

The department shall issue without charge lifetime bird, small game and fish licenses to any resident or honorably discharged veteran who is over sixty-five (65) years and who has
continuously
resided in Wyoming for at least
the
thirty (30) years
,

immediately preceding application for the license,

or to any disabled veteran who is one hundred percent (100%) disabled as determined by the United States department of veteran affairs. The license is valid so long as the licensee remains a
Wyoming
resident.

(e)

The department shall issue:

(i)

For a fee of two dollars ($2.00) a resident deer or antelope license and for a fee of five dollars ($5.00) an elk license to any resident who was born on or before January 1, 1930, and who has
continuously
resided in Wyoming for at least
the
forty (40) years
;

immediately preceding application for the license;

and

(ii)

For a fee established by rule of the commission a resident deer, antelope or elk license to any resident who was born after January 1, 1930, is at least seventy (70) years of age prior to the issuance of the license and has
continuously
resided in Wyoming for at least fifty (50) years
.

immediately preceding application for the license.

The fee established for a license under this paragraph shall be not more than sixty-five percent (65%) nor less than sixty percent (60%) of the resident fee specified in W.S. 23
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101 for the particular species;

Section 2.
This act is effective J
anuary
1, 2011.

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