Game and fish licenses.

2017
STATE OF WYOMING
17LSO-0626
Introduced
1.2

SENATE FILE

NO.

SF0139

Game and fish licenses.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Pappas

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to game and fish licenses; amending provisions related to license expirations; requiring rulemaking; amending provisions related to reservations of certain unused licenses; making conforming amendments; and providing for effective dates.

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(
f),
23
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1
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704
,
23
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2
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307(b),
23
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2
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414(b)
,

23
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3
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105(b),
23
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5
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105
and 23
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5
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109

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.

(f)

Notwithstanding W.S. 23
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1
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704 and 23
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2
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101(j), any person who is issued and purchases a limited quota, full price big or trophy game animal license for any species and sex of animal and is unable to use for good cause as provided by regulations that license
for
during
the
year in which
hunting season for which the license is
issued
, may reserve a license for the particular species and sex of big or trophy game animal designated on the unused license for use during the immediately succeeding
calendar year

hunting season

by applying to the commission
before the opening date of the season for the designated species and sex of animal during the year for which the initial license is issued

in accordance with commission rules
. The initial big or trophy game animal license shall accompany the application. Upon receipt, the commission shall cancel the initial license and prior to the
subsequent

season opening date for the designated species and sex of animal
,

during the immediately succeeding calendar year,

issue to the applicant at an administrative cost not less than ten dollars ($10.00) and not to exceed four percent (4%) of the cost of the initial license, a
license for the designated big or trophy game animal valid for that
year

season
.

23
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1
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704
.

Licenses; expiration.

All licenses

issued on or after January 1, 2018,
expire
on the last day of the year in which issued
as provided in commission rules

except as otherwise

provided

in this title
.

23
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2
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307
.

Special management permit.

(b)

Special management permits may be purchased from the department or its authorized selling agents for twelve dollars ($12.00) plus the applicable fee under W.S. 23
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1
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701 and
, if issued on or after January 1, 2018,
shall
be valid for one (1) calendar year
expire
as provided in commission rules
.

23
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2
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414
.

License issuance; fees; term of license; renewal; disposition of collected fees.

(b)

A license issued
on or after January 1, 2018,

under this act
is valid for the calendar year in which issued and
shall expire

on December 31 of that year
as provided in commission rules

unless earlier expiring pursuant to W.S. 23
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2
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412(
b) or otherwise suspended or revoked.

23
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3
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105
.

Antelope, deer and elk coupons; payment to landowner; kill on federal or state land.

(b)

The landowner's coupon shall promptly be detached, dated, signed and delivered to the landowner. The landowner, on or before March 1 following the
year
close
of the hunting season

for which the license was issued, shall deliver to the department the coupon and an affidavit that the antelope, deer or elk for which the coupon was delivered was killed on his land. Upon receipt of the coupon and affidavit the department shall pay the landowner sixteen dollars ($16.00) for each coupon from an antelope, deer or elk license. Landowner's coupons are not transferable. Any unauthorized person attempting to collect any sum for any landowner's coupon is guilty of a high misdemeanor punishable as provided in W.S. 23
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6
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202(
a)(ii).
Effective January 1, 2000, the department shall provide a checkoff box on each landowner coupon affidavit claim form that offers the claimant the opportunity to designate the animal damage management board to receive his payment amount for landowner coupons claimed on that form. For each claim made where the landowner has designated his payment to the animal damage management board, the department shall transfer that amount to the animal damage management account created by W.S. 11
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6
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306 and the department shall retain the fees related to those administrative costs of the transfer.

23
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5
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105
.

License fee; expiration; renewal of license.

Applicants for the license shall pay the proper fee. The license
, if issued on or after January 1, 2018,

expires

on April 1 of each year

as provided in commission rules
, but may be renewed each year in the discretion of the department upon the payment of the proper fee.

23
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5
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109
.

Special bird license; fee; license not required of commercial purchasers.

All game bird farm licensees are authorized selling agents of the commission, may issue a special bird license on forms prescribed by the commission to any person who does not have in his possession a license authorizing the hunting of game birds as required by this act, and shall comply with all provisions of this act. Special bird licenses
are valid for a period of three (3) days from the date of issuance
issued on or after January 1, 2018, expire
as provided in commission rules

and
are

valid for use only on the premises of the licensee selling the license. The appropriate fee for the special bird license shall be paid to the department. The licensee may charge such additional fee for his personal services as he feels his operations may dictate, or he may sell directly to a commercial operator or restaurant operator, live or dressed game birds without their having to be killed by the purchaser, provided they are properly receipted, in which case the purchaser is not required to possess a valid game bird hunting license.

Section 2
.

Licenses issued under title 23 of the Wyoming statutes before
January 1, 2018
, shall expire in
accordance with the applicable provisions of law existing prior to amendment by this act
.

Section 3
.

Before January 1, 2018, the game and fish commission shall
promulgate rules
on

license expirations
and
reservations of unused
limited quota, full price big or trophy game animal licenses

pursuant to
section 1 of this act.

Section

4
.

(a)

Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, this
act i
s effective
J
anuary
1, 201
8
.

(b)

Section 3 is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section
8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

(END)

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