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INTRODUCTION
HOUSE BILL NO.
Hunting license application fees increase.
Sponsored by: Joint Travel, Recreation, Wildlife & Cultural Resources Interim Committee
A BILL
for
1 AN ACT relating to game and fish; authorizing the game and
2 fish commission to set application fees for hunting
3 licenses as specified; and providing for an effective date.
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5 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
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7 Section 1. W.S. 23-2-101(e)is amended to read:
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9 23-2-101. Fees; restrictions; nonresident application fee;
10 nonresident licenses; verification of residency required;
11 donation of refunded application fees.
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1 (e) Resident and nonresident license applicants shall
2 pay an application fee in an amount specified by this
3 subsection upon submission of an application for purchase
4 of any limited quota drawing for big or trophy game license
5 or wild bison license. The resident application fee
6 Application fees shall be five dollars ($5.00) established
7 by rule and shall not exceed twenty dollars ($20.00) for
8 resident applications and the seventy-five dollars ($75.00)
9 for nonresident application fee shall be fifteen dollars
10 ($15.00)applications. The application fee is in addition to
11 the fees prescribed by subsections (f) and (j) of this
12 section and by W.S. 23-2-107 and shall be payable to the
13 department either directly or through an authorized selling
14 agent of the department. At the beginning of each month,
15 the commission shall set aside all of the fees collected
16 during calendar year 1980 and not to exceed twenty-five
17 percent (25%) of the fees collected thereafter pursuant to
18 this subsection to establish and maintain a working balance
19 of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00), to
20 compensate owners or lessees of property damaged by game
21 animals and game birds.
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1 Section 2. The game and fish commission shall
2 promulgate all rules necessary to implement the provisions
3 of this act not later than July 1, 2025.
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5 Section 3.
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7 (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this
8 section, this act is effective July 1, 2025.
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10 (b) Sections 2 and 3 of this act are effective
11 immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a
12 bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of
13 the Wyoming Constitution.
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15 (END)
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Statutes affected:
25LSO-0057 v0.6: 23-2-101