Game and fish-animal damage management fees.

2017
STATE OF WYOMING
17LSO-0571
Introduced
1.2

HOUSE BILL

NO.

HB0205

Game and fish-animal damage management fees.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Hunt, Allen, Laursen, McKim, Northrup and Paxton and Senator(s) Hicks

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to game and fish; providing additional application and license fees as specified; providing for distribution of fees; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section
1
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W.S. 23
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2
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101
(
e) and by creating
a
new subsection
(p) is amended to read:

23
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2
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101
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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)

fi
ve dollars and fifty cents ($5.5
0)
and the nonresident application fee shall be
fourteen dollars ($14.00)

fourteen dollars and fifty cents ($14.50)
. 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.
Except as otherwise provided by this subsection, a
t the beginning of each month, the commission shall set aside all of the fees collected during calendar year 1980 and not to exceed twenty
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five percent (25%) of the fees collected thereafter pursuant to this subsection to establish and maintain a working balance of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00), to compensate owners or lessees of property damaged by game animals and game birds.
Fifty cents ($.50) of every resident and nonresident application fee collected by the department shall be
transferred to the animal damage management account in accordance with subsection (p) of this section.

(p)

In addition to
other fees under this section,
the department shall collect a
fee of
one dollar ($1.00)
from persons purchasing

any
big game,
trophy game,

game bird and small game licenses.

Fees collected pursuant to this
sub
section
and subsection (e) of this section
shall be annually transferred by the department to the animal damage management account created by W.S. 11
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306 for distribution by the animal damage management board. The department shall retain the fees related to the administrative costs of the transfer.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2017
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