Big game animals-combination licenses.

2016
STATE OF WYOMING
16LSO-0295
Introduced
1.5

SENATE FILE

NO.

SF0079

Big game animals-combination licenses.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Barnard and Hicks

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to game and fish; authorizing the game and fish commission to issue combination elk, deer and antelope 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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2
‑
101
(
e), (j)(intro) and
by creating a new subsection (p) is amended to read:

23
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2
‑
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). The application fee is in addition to the fees prescribed by subsections (f)
,

and
(j)
and (p)
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.

(j)

Subject to W.S. 23
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2
‑
101(
f)
and (p)
, 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:

(p)

Ten percent (10%) of
all
available
resident
elk, deer and antelope licenses
and ten percent (10%) of
all
available nonresident elk, deer and antelope licenses
for any one (1) calendar year may
,
as established by the commission, be offered to applicants as combination license
s
upon receipt of the fee
s
prescribed by this subsection
.

In calculating available general licenses for each species, the commission shall use an amount equal to the total number of general licenses issued for the species in the immediately preceding hunting season.

A

combination
license authorized by this subsection shall allow a licensee to
take
up to three (3) different big game species specified in this subsection or
up to
two (2) of the same big game species specified in this subsection
if the same big game species
are of

a different sex or age as designated by the commission.
The following fees
may
be collected by the department
for each
big game
animal for which the combination license is issued
and are in addition to
the license fee
s

for each
big game
animal as
imposed under subsection (j) of this section
and the application fee imposed under subsection (e) of this section:

(i)

Resident elk
license .
. . . . . . . $
15
.00

(ii)

Nonresident elk license . . . . . .
.
50.00

(iii)

Resident deer license . . . . . . .

10
.00

(iv)

Nonresident
deer license . . . . . .

50.00

(v)

Resident antelope
license . . . . . .
.

5
.00

(vi)

Nonresident
antelope license . . . .
20
.00

Section

2
.

This
act is effective
January 1, 2017.

(END)

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