Game and fish-nonresident license fees.

WORKING DRAFT
2013
STATE OF
WYOMING
13LSO-0558

HOUSE BILL
NO.

HB0236

Game and fish-nonresident license fees.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Burkhart, Gay and Jaggi and Senator(s) Hicks and Landen

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to game and fish;
amending
nonresident
hunting and other license and application fees 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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2
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101
(e), (f)(
i
) through (iii), (j)(i
i
)
,
(iv), (vi)
,
(x), (xii
i
)
,
(xv), (xix), (xxi
i
i)
,
(xx
v
),
(
xxv
ii
), (xx
ix
), (xxxi)
,
(x
xxv
),
(xxxix), (xl) and
(xliii)
(
B), 23
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2
‑
107(e)
and
23
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2
‑
301(c)(i
v
)
, (vi) and
(xii) are amended to read:

23
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2
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101.

Fees; restrictions; nonresident application fee; nonresident licenses; verification of residency required.

(e)

Resident and nonresident license applicants shall pay an application fee in an amount specified by this subsection upon submission of an application for purchase of any limited quota drawing for big or trophy game license or wild bison license. The resident application fee shall be
five dollars ($5.00)
and the nonresident application fee shall be
fourteen dollars ($14.00)

seventeen dollars ($17.00)
. The application fee is in addition to the fees prescribed by subsections (f) and (j) of this section and by W.S. 23
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2
‑
107 and shall be payable to the department either directly or through an authorized selling agent of the department. At the beginning of each month, the commission shall set aside all of the fees collected during calendar year 1980 and not to exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the fees collected thereafter pursuant to this subsection to establish and maintain a working balance of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00), to compensate owners or lessees of property damaged by game animals and game birds.

(f)

Forty percent (40%) of available nonresident elk licenses, forty percent (40%) of available nonresident deer licenses and forty percent (40%) of available nonresident antelope licenses for any one (1) calendar year shall as
established by the commission, be offered to nonresident applicants upon receipt of the fee prescribed by this subsection. Seventy-five (75) of the nonresident deer licenses set aside pursuant to this subsection shall be used for a national bow hunt for deer. The licenses authorized by this subsection shall be offered by drawing to nonresident applicants prior to the drawing for the remaining nonresident licenses issued. The licenses offered under this subsection shall be issued in a manner prescribed by rules and regulations promulgated by the commission. Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit any unsuccessful applicant for a nonresident license pursuant to this subsection from submitting an application for any licenses remaining after the drawing during the calendar year in which the application under this subsection was submitted. The following fees shall be collected by the department and are in addition to the nonresident license fee for the appropriate big game species imposed under subsection (j) of this section and the application fee imposed under subsection (e) of this section:

(
i
)

Nonresident elk license

......
$480.00

$600.00
in addition to the license fee imposed under paragraph (j
)(
xix) of this section;

(ii)

Nonresident deer
license

....

$240.00

$300.00
in addition to the license fee imposed under paragraph (j
)(
xv) of this section;

(iii)

Nonresident antelope
license

.....

$240.00

$300.00

in addition to the license fee imposed under paragraph (j
)(
xxxi) of this section.

(j)

Subject to W.S. 23
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2
‑
101(
f), 23
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1
‑
705(e) and the applicable fee under W.S. 23
‑
1
‑
701, the following hunting licenses and tags may be purchased for the fee indicated

and subject to the limitations provided:

(ii)

Nonresident black bear license; one (1) black bear

360.00

375.00

(iv)

Nonresident
mountain lion license; one (1) mountain lion

360.00

375.00

(vi)

Nonresident
daily game bird/small game license; all game birds except wild turkey

18.00

22.00

(x)

Nonresident game bird/small game license; all game birds except wild turkey

70.00

85.00

(xiii)

Nonresident archery license

28.00

34.00

(xv)

Nonresident deer license; one (1)

deer
, fishing/small game privileges

310.00

480.00

(xix)

Nonresident elk license; one (1) elk, fishing
/
small game
privileges

575.00

650.00

(xxiii)

Nonresident bighorn sheep license; one (1) bighorn sheep
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
2,250.00

2,500.00

(xxv)

Nonresident mountain goat license; one (1) mountain goat

2,150.00

2,600.00

(xxvii)

Nonresident moose license; one (1)
moose
..........................................
1,400.00

1,750.00

(xxix)

Nonresident grizzly bear license; one (1) grizzly bear

6,000.00

7,250.00

(xxxi)

Nonresident antelope license; one (1) antelope
, fishing/small game privileges

270.00

400.00

(xxxv)

Nonresident license to capture falcons for falconry purposes

240.00

300.00

(xxxix)

Nonresident turkey license

70.00

85.00

(xl)

Wyoming
interstate game tag

6.00

7.00

(xliii)

From and after the date gray wolves are removed from the list of experimental nonessential population, endangered species or threatened species in Wyoming as provided by W.S. 23
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1
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108:

(B)

Nonresident gray wolf license
.......................................................
$180.00

$
220.00

23
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2
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107.

Wild bison licenses.

(e)

A resident applicant shall pay a license fee of
four hundred dollars ($400.00
)
and shall pay the fee required by W.S. 23
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2
‑
101(
e). A nonresident applicant shall pay a license fee of
two thousand five hundred
dollars ($2,500.00)
three thousand dollars ($3,000.00)

and shall pay the fee required by W.S. 23
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2
‑
101(
e). The fee charged under W.S. 23
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1
‑
701 shall be in addition to the fee imposed under this subsection.

23
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2
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301.

Miscellaneous fees; verification of residency required.

(c)

The following licenses and tags may be purchased for the fee indicated in addition to the applicable fee under W.S. 23
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1
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701 and subject to other requirements of this article:

(iv)

Nonresident
fur dealer's license
................................................................
275.00

340.00

(vi)

Nonresident
taxidermist's license
.......................................................
700.00

850.00

(xii)

Nonresident trapping license-
furbearing
...........................................
240.00

300.00

Section
2
.

This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

(END)

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