Game licenses-fees and allocation.

2015
STATE OF WYOMING
15LSO-0526
Numbered
2.1

HOUSE BILL

NO.
HB0207

Game licenses-fees and allocation.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Loucks and Senator(s) Hicks

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to game and fish; limiting nonresident allocation of mountain goat and grizzly bear licenses as specified; establishing nonresident allocation of wild bison licenses as specified; specifying fees; 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)
, 23
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2
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101(e)
and 23
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2
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107
(e) and
by creating a new subsection (g) are amended to read:

23
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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%) of the moose
,

and
seventy
‑
five percent (75%) of the ram and ewe and lamb bighorn sheep,
and ninety percent (90%) of the

mountain goat and grizzly bear licenses 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.

(e)

Except as provided in W.S. 23
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2
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107, r
esident 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 for mountain goat license
s
shall not exceed ten dollars ($10.00), t
he resident application fee
for all other
big or trophy game
licenses

shall be five dollars ($5.00) and the nonresident application fee
for big or trophy game licenses or wild bison licenses

shall be fourteen dollars ($14.00). 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
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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.

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) for a license to harvest any wild bison or two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) for a license to harvest a female or calf wild bison and shall pay
the fee required by W.S. 23
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2
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101(e)
a
n
application fee not to exceed twenty dollars ($20.00)
. A nonresident applicant shall pay a license fee of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) for a license to harvest any wild bison or one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) for a license to harvest a female or calf wild bison and shall pay the fee required by W.S. 23
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2
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101(e). The fee charged
under W.S. 23
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1
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701 shall be in addition to the fee imposed under this subsection.

(g)

The commission shall reserve ninety percent (90%) of the wild bison licenses by type to be issued in any one (1) year for resident hunters.

Section
2
.

This
act is effective July 1,
2015
.

(END)

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