Existing law authorizes the Board of Wildlife Commissioners to adopt regulations establishing a program that allows a person to transfer his or her tag to hunt a big game mammal to any person who is under 18 years of age. (NRS 502.102) Section 1 of this bill makes the adoption of the regulations mandatory.
Under existing law, a person is guilty of a misdemeanor if the person: (1) is required to have a license or permit to engage in activities regulated by the provisions relating to wildlife; and (2) while engaged in any such activity, refuses, upon the demand of an officer authorized to enforce the fish and game laws of this State, to exhibit the license or permit, any wildlife in the person's possession or any weapon, ammunition, device or apparatus in the person's possession that may be used for any such activity. (NRS 502.120) Under existing law, this crime is punishable by: (1) a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $500; (2) imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 6 months; or (3) both fine and imprisonment. (NRS 501.385) Section 2 of this bill eliminates the criminal penalty for refusing to exhibit any of the items other than the license or permit.
Subject to the same criminal penalty, a person is also guilty of a misdemeanor under existing law if the person: (1) is required to have a license or permit to engage in activities regulated by the provisions relating to wildlife; and (2) while engaged in any such activity, fails to have the license or permit in his or her possession. (NRS 502.120) Section 2 clarifies that, for purposes of this crime, the license or permit may be possessed in physical or electronic form.
In addition to regular licenses or permits to hunt, fish or trap, existing law provides for additional licenses, known as tags, to hunt, trap or fish designated species of wildlife. (NRS 502.130) Under existing law, whenever tags are required for any species of wildlife, it is unlawful to possess any of that species without the correct tag. (NRS 502.150) Section 3 of this bill authorizes a person, for non-commercial purposes and without the required tag, to take or gather a skull or head of any wildlife species for which a tag is required, with or without antlers or horns attached.