CHAPTER 241

(HB 1024)

Hunting licenses and
preference point administrative requirements changed.


         ENTITLED, An Act to  revise certain provisions regarding application for game and fish licenses and preference points.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:

     Section  1.  That § 41-6-73 be amended to read as follows:

     41-6-73.   No person may at any time apply for, procure , or possess a license or preference point under an assumed name or in which an address other than his the person's regular place of residence is given, or make any false statement whatsoever in securing a license or preference point , lend a license or tag to another, or knowingly issue or aid in securing a license or preference point for himself or herself or any other person not legally entitled to it. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

     Section  2.  That § 41-6-75.2 be amended to read as follows:

     41-6-75.2.   A person whose hunting, trapping, or fishing privileges have been suspended and who hunts, traps, or fishes in this state or who applies for or purchases any licenses or permits to hunt, trap, or fish in this state, is guilty of is prohibited from exercising the suspended privilege, or applying for a license, permit, or preference point that corresponds to the suspended privilege. A violation of this section is a Class 1 misdemeanor.

     Section  3.  That § 41-6-12 be amended to read as follows:

     41-6-12.   Any person who is a resident of this state, as defined by this title, qualifies as resident for securing any resident hunting or fishing license or preference points . All other persons shall secure the applicable nonresident hunting and fishing licenses or preference points . No person under the age of twelve years may be granted any hunting license or preference point . However, any person who is eleven years of age and who will become twelve years of age during the period September first through December thirty-first, inclusive, may be granted any hunting license or preference point and be allowed to hunt beginning September first.

     Signed February 23, 2007
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