§ 23-2-101 — Fees; restrictions; nonresident application fee; nonresident licenses; verification of residency required; donation of refunded application fees

Wyoming § 23-2-101

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 23: Game and Fish
• Ch. 2: LICENSES; FEES
• Art. 1: GAME ANIMALS AND GAME BIRDS

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(a) Any qualified person may purchase a hunting license
from the department or its authorized selling agents except as
otherwise provided. Purchase of a license entitles the licensee
to take any animal, bird or fish provided on the license within
Wyoming at the time, in a place, in a manner and in an amount as
provided by law and the orders of the commission. At the time
of application for a resident license under this section, the
applicant shall provide a valid Wyoming driver's license or a
copy thereof, or other proof of residency. The commission shall
promulgate reasonable rules and regulations stating what proof
of residency is required so that only bona fide Wyoming
residents, as defined in W.S. 23-1-102(a)(ix), receive resident
licenses. For purposes of purchasing a lifetime resident license
under subsection (j) of this section, an applicant shall have
been a resident as defined in W.S. 23-1-102(a)(ix) continuously
for a ten (10) year period immediately preceding the application
date.
(b) Repealed by Laws 1999, ch. 92, § 2.
(c) The resident's or nonresident's license must bear the
signature of the landowner, lessee, or agent of the owner on
whose private property he is hunting or the legitimate proof as
evidence that permission to hunt has been granted.
(d) The commission may issue big or trophy game licenses
in areas in which all licenses initially authorized were not
purchased or in which additional harvest is desired, allowing a
licensee to take a big or trophy game animal of such sex or age
as designated by the commission. The fee for the license may be
reduced by the commission to the level necessary to achieve the
desired management objectives, but in no case shall a resident
or nonresident license fee be less than the landowner's coupon
fee.
(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 fifteen
dollars ($15.00). The application fee is in addition to the
fees prescribed by subsections (f) and (j) of this section and
by W.S. 23-2-107 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.
(f) Forty percent (40%) of available nonresident elk
licenses, forty percent (40%) of available nonresident deer
licenses and forty percent (40%) of available nonresident
antelope licenses for any one (1) calendar year shall as
established by the commission, be offered to nonresident
applicants upon receipt of the fee prescribed by this
subsection. Seventy-five (75) of the nonresident deer licenses
set aside pursuant to this subsection shall be used for a
national bow hunt for deer. The licenses authorized by this
subsection shall be offered by drawing to nonresident applicants
prior to the drawing for the remaining nonresident licenses
issued. The licenses offered under this subsection shall be
issued in a manner prescribed by rules and regulations
promulgated by the commission. Nothing in this subsection shall
prohibit any unsuccessful applicant for a nonresident license
pursuant to this subsection from submitting an application for
any licenses remaining after the drawing during the calendar
year in which the application under this subsection was
submitted. The following fees shall be collected by the
department and are in addition to the nonresident license fee
for the appropriate big game species imposed under subsection
(j) of this section and the application fee imposed under
subsection (e) of this section:
(i) Nonresident elk license ...... $1,258.00 in
addition to the license fee imposed under paragraph (j)(xix) of
this section;
(ii) Nonresident deer license .... $826.00 in
addition to the license fee imposed under paragraph (j)(xv) of
this section;
(iii) Nonresident antelope license ..... $874.00 in
addition to the license fee imposed under paragraph (j)(xxxi) of
this section.
(g) In promulgating rules and regulations for the taking
of bighorn sheep and moose, the commission shall not
discriminate between residents and nonresidents regarding the
maturity and horn size of the animals which may be taken.
Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as prohibiting the
commission from issuing a different number of licenses for
residents and nonresidents, from requiring a preference point
fee from nonresidents only pursuant to subsection (m) of this
section or from issuing reduced price ewe and lamb bighorn sheep
licenses as provided in subsection (d) of this section.
(h) In addition to other fees under this section, persons
applying for a license or tag under this section may pay a
voluntary fee of two dollars ($2.00) or any greater amount to
fund search and rescue activities in the state. The department
shall provide information on the license or tag application form
that the applicant may pay the fee under this subsection. Any
voluntary fees collected under this subsection shall be
deposited in the search and rescue account created by W.S.