This text of Kansas § 32-930 (Lifetime hunting, fishing and furharvesting licenses; persons in arrearage of child support, prohibition against issuance of such licenses) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Kansas primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
(a)(1) Except as provided in subsection (c), the secretary of wildlife and parks or the secretary's designee is authorized to issue to any Kansas resident a lifetime fishing, hunting or furharvester or combination hunting and fishing license upon proper application made therefor to the secretary or the secretary's designee and payment of a license fee as follows:
(A)A total payment made at the time of purchase in the amount prescribed pursuant to K.S.A. 32-988, and amendments thereto; or (B)payment may be made over a two-year period in eight quarter-annual installments in the amount prescribed pursuant to K.S.A. 32-988, and amendments thereto. (2)If payment is in installments, the license shall not be issued until the final installment has been paid. A person making installment payment
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(a) (1) Except as provided in subsection (c), the secretary of wildlife and parks or the secretary's designee is authorized to issue to any Kansas resident a lifetime fishing, hunting or furharvester or combination hunting and fishing license upon proper application made therefor to the secretary or the secretary's designee and payment of a license fee as follows:
(A) A total payment made at the time of purchase in the amount prescribed pursuant to K.S.A. 32-988, and amendments thereto; or
(B) payment may be made over a two-year period in eight quarter-annual installments in the amount prescribed pursuant to K.S.A. 32-988, and amendments thereto.
(2) If payment is in installments, the license shall not be issued until the final installment has been paid. A person making installment payments shall not be required to obtain the appropriate annual license, and each installment payment shall be deemed to be such an annual license for a period of one year following the date of the last installment payment made. If an installment payment is not received within 30 days after it is due and owing, the secretary may consider the payments in default and may retain any payments previously received.
(3) Any lifetime license issued to a Kansas resident shall not be made invalid by reason of the holder thereof subsequently residing outside the state of Kansas. Any nonresident holder of a Kansas lifetime hunting or combination hunting and fishing license shall be eligible under the same conditions as a Kansas resident for a big game or wild turkey permit upon proper application to the secretary. Any nonresident holder of a lifetime fishing license issued before July 1, 1989, shall be eligible under the same conditions as a Kansas resident for a big game or wild turkey permit upon proper application to the secretary.
(b) As used in subsection (a), the term "resident" means the same as provided in K.S.A. 32-701, and amendments thereto, except that a person shall have maintained that person's place of permanent abode in this state for a period of not less than one year immediately preceding the person's application for a lifetime fishing, hunting or furharvester or combination hunting and fishing license.
(c) (1) Upon request of the secretary for children and families, the secretary of wildlife and parks shall not issue a lifetime fishing, hunting or furharvester or combination hunting and fishing license to an applicant except as provided in this subsection. The secretary for children and families may make such a request if, at the time of the request, the applicant:
(A) Owed arrearages under a support order in a title IV-D case being administered by the secretary for children and families;
(B) had outstanding a warrant or subpoena, directed to the applicant, in a title IV-D case being administered by the secretary for children and families;
(C) owes arrearages under a support order, as reported to the secretary for children and families by the court trustee; or
(D) has failed, after appropriate notice, to comply with a subpoena directed to the individual by the court trustee as reported to the secretary for children and families by the court trustee.
(2) Upon receiving a release from an authorized agent of the secretary for children and families or the court trustee, the secretary of wildlife and parks may issue the lifetime fishing, hunting or furharvester or combination hunting and fishing license. The applicant shall have the burden of obtaining and delivering the release.
(3) The secretary for children and families shall issue a release upon request if, as appropriate:
(A) The arrearages are paid in full or a tribunal of competent jurisdiction has determined that no arrearages are owed;
(B) an income withholding order has been served upon the applicant's current employer or payor;
(C) an agreement has been completed or an order has been entered setting minimum payments to defray the arrearages, together with receipt of the first minimum payment;
(D) the applicant has complied with the warrant or subpoena or the warrant or subpoena has been quashed or withdrawn; or
(E) the court trustee notifies the secretary for children and families that the applicant has paid the arrearages in full or has complied with the subpoena or the subpoena has been quashed or withdrawn.
(d) (1) Upon request of the secretary for children and families, the secretary of wildlife and parks shall suspend a lifetime fishing, hunting or furharvester or combination hunting and fishing license to a licensee as provided in this subsection. The secretary for children and families may make such a request if, at the time of the request, the applicant owed arrearages under a support order or had outstanding a warrant or subpoena as stated in subsection (c)(1).
(2) Upon receiving a release from an authorized agent of the secretary for children and families or the court trustee, the secretary of wildlife and parks may reinstate the lifetime fishing, hunting or furharvester or combination hunting and fishing license. The licensee shall have the burden of obtaining and delivering the release.
(3) The secretary for children and families shall issue a release upon request if the requirements of subsection (c)(3) are met.
(e) Nothing in subsection (c) or (d) shall be construed to require or permit the secretary of wildlife and parks to determine any issue related to a child support order or related to the title IV-D case including to resolve questions of mistaken identity or determine the adequacy of any notice relating to subsection (c) or (d) that the secretary of wildlife and parks provides to the applicant.
(f) "Title IV-D" means part D of title IV of the federal social security act, 42 U.S.C. § 651 et seq., as in effect on December 31, 2001, relating to child support enforcement services.
(g) The secretary of wildlife and parks, in accordance with K.S.A. 32-805, and amendments thereto, may adopt rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.
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