Big and trophy game licenses.

WORKING DRAFT
2014
STATE OF
WYOMING
14LSO-0289

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0112

Big and trophy game licenses.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Jaggi, Hunt, Loucks, McKim and Piiparinen and Senator(s) Hicks

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to game and fish;
amending
resident
big and trophy game
hunting license fees as specified;
limiting
nonresident allocation of specified licenses;
changing allocation of special nonresident big game licenses
;
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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703
(e)
and

23
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2
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101(f)
(intro)
,
(
j)(i), (iii), (xiv),
(xviii
),
(xxii)
, (xxiv),
(xxv
i
), (xxv
iii
), (xxx)
and
(xliii)(A
)
are amended to read:

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1
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703.

Limitation of number of big or trophy game animal licenses; reservation of certain licenses; reservation of certain unused licenses.

(e)

The commission shall reserve
eighty percent (80%)

ninety percent (90%)
of
the moose and seventy-five percent (75%) of the ram and ewe and lamb bighorn sheep, mountain goat and grizzly bear

all big or trophy game
licenses

for each species
to be issued in any one (1) year for resident hunters.

23
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2
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101.

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

(f)

Forty percent (40%)

Sixty percent (60%)
of available nonresident elk licenses,
forty percent (40%)

sixty percent (60%)
of available nonresident deer licenses and
forty percent (40%)

sixty percent (60%)
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:

(j)

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

and subject to the limitations provided:

(i)

Resident black bear license; one (1) black
bear
..................................................
$43.00

$48.00

(iii)

Resident mountain lion license; one (1) mountain lion

28.00

31.00

(xiv)

Resident deer license; one (1) deer
.......................................................
36.00

40.00

(xviii)

Resident elk license; one (1) elk
.......................................................
50.00

55.00

(xxii)

Resident bighorn sheep license; one (1) bighorn sheep

115.00

127.00

(xxiv)

Resident mountain goat license; one (1) mountain goat

120.00

132.00

(xxvi)

Resident moose license; one (1) moose
.......................................................
110.00

121.00

(xxviii)

Resident grizzly bear license; one (1) grizzly bear

600.00

660.00

(xxx)

Resident antelope license; one (1)
antelope
.............................................
31.00

34.00

(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:

(A)

Resident gray wolf license
.......................................................
$18.00

20.00

Section 2.

This act is effective
October
1, 2015.

(END)

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