Special nonresident hunting license draw.

WORKING DRAFT
2014
STATE OF
WYOMING
14LSO-0377

HOUSE BILL
NO.

HB0153

Special non
resident hunting license draw.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Krone

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
game and fish; increasing percentage of nonresident elk, deer and antelope licenses available through a special drawing;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.

W.S. 23
‑
2
‑
101(
f)
(intro)
is amended to read:

23
‑
2
‑
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:

Section 2.

This act is effective January 1, 2015.

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