Game and fish licenses-residency.

WORKING DRAFT
2013
STATE OF
WYOMING
13LSO-0367

HOUSE BILL
NO.

HB0157

Game and fish licenses-residency.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Hunt, Connolly, Greene and Krone and Senator(s) Rothfuss

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
game and fish licenses; providing residency status for
full-time
students enrolled at the University of Wyoming, a Wyoming community college or any school licensed in this state offering postsecondary education;
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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1
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107
(c
)(
intro),
(d)(intro)
, (h)(iii)
and by creating a new subsection (k) is amended to read:

23
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107.

Residency for obtaining game and fish licenses.

(c)

A person other than a minor dependent qualifying under subsection (b) of this section

or a
full-time
student qualifying under subsection (k) of this section
, shall lose his residency in Wyoming if he moves to another state, territory or country and makes it his domicile, or makes any claim of residency for any purpose to that state, territory or country. Provided he does not claim residency in any other state, territory or country for any purpose, a person shall not gain or lose residency in Wyoming merely by reason of his presence in or absence from the state while:

(d)

A person shall lose his residency in Wyoming if he resides in any other state, territory or country for an aggregate of one hundred eighty (180) days or more in a calendar year, unless he qualifies as a resident under subsection (b), (c), (e)
,

or
(f)
or (k)
of this section. A person who resides in any other state, territory or country other than Wyoming, for less than an aggregate of one hundred eighty (180) days in a calendar year, may maintain residency in Wyoming under this act only if he qualifies as a resident under subsection (b), (c), (e)
,

or
(f)
or (k)
of this section or if:

(h)

An applicant shall provide proof of residency and swear to an oath of residency when making application for, or attempting to purchase, a resident license, preference point, permit or tag under this act. License selling agents and the department shall consider as documentary evidence of residency any of the following:

(iii)

A proof of residency statement on a form provided by the department that has been completed and signed by the applicant.

Any

full-time
student qualifying under subsection (k) of this section and
active duty member of the armed forces, his spouse or minor dependent of the active duty member making application for or purchasing a resident license, preference point, permit or tag shall be required to complete and submit the proof of residency statement; or

(k)

Any
student
who lives in Wyoming for
ninety (90) days and is
enrolled as
a

full-time
student at the
University of Wyoming,
a Wyoming
community college or any school licensed in this state offering postsecondary education shall qualify as a resident under this section so long as the
student
remains
a
full-time
student
.
For
purposes of this subsection,
"
full-time
student
"
means as defined in W.S. 31
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1
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101(
a)(xxxi).

Section 2.

This act is effective July 1, 2013.

(END)

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