Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) Fund-raising buck pronghorn antelope
license tags:
Fund-raising license tags for the taking of buck pronghorn
antelope shall be offered for sale for the purpose of raising funds for the
management of pronghorn antelope. The department may conduct a random drawing
to distribute fund-raising tags. Any resident or nonresident is eligible to buy
one of the fund-raising license tags. The sale price of a fund-raising license
tag includes the fee for processing and issuing an annual hunting license for
the purchaser or any person designated by the purchaser. A fund-raising license
tag distributed through a department random drawing does not include the fee
for processing and issuing a hunting license. The purchasers shall be issued
the fund-raising license tag only after meeting the hunter education
requirements for a hunting license.
(b) Distribution of pronghorn antelope
license tags:
(1) Applicants shall apply, and
pay a nonrefundable processing fee as specified in Section
702, through the department's
Automated License Data System terminals at any department license agent or
department license sales office on or before June 2 each year.
(2) Applicants shall be California residents
or nonresidents, at least 12 years of age on or before July 1 of the license
year for which they are applying. Applicants for the apprentice pronghorn
antelope hunts shall hold a junior hunting license for the license year for
which they are applying. Applicants shall possess an annual California hunting
license that is valid during the pronghorn antelope season for which they are
applying.
(3) Up to two residents
may apply together as a party. Nonresidents may not apply as a party.
(4) Applicants shall apply for only one
designated zone pursuant to Section
363.
(5) No applicant shall submit more than one
application per license year for a pronghorn antelope license tag.
(6) Incomplete, late and ineligible
applications and applications submitted without the appropriate processing fee
will not be included in the drawing and the applicant will not earn a
preference point.
(7) Successful
applicants and a list of alternates for each zone shall be determined by
drawing within 10 business days following the application deadline date. If the
drawing is delayed due to circumstances beyond the department's control, the
department shall conduct the drawing at the earliest date possible.
(8) Not more than one nonresident shall be
selected to receive a general license tag each year.
(9) Unsuccessful applicants shall not be
notified by mail. Successful applicants will be mailed notification as soon as
practical. Upon receipt of the notification, the applicant shall submit the
appropriate tag fee, as specified in Section
702, through the department's
Automated License Data System terminals at any department license sales office.
The tag fee shall be received by the department by 5:00 p.m. on July 15 each
year. If the deadline to submit the fee falls on a weekend or holiday payment
will be accepted until the close of business on the first state business day
following the deadline to submit payment.
(10) Should the quota for each zone remain
unfilled after that date, the alternate lists shall be used. Any tags unclaimed
by successful applicants after that date shall be awarded to alternates for
that zone, on an individual basis, in the order drawn.
(c) Tagholder Responsibilities:
(1) Only persons possessing valid pronghorn
antelope license tags are entitled to hunt pronghorn antelope. Tags shall not
be transferable and are valid only in the area, season, and period specified on
the tag.
(A) All tag holders shall return the
report card portion of their license tag to the department within one week
after the close of the pronghorn antelope season, even though the tagholder may
not have killed a pronghorn antelope.
(B) The holder of a pronghorn antelope
license tag, after killing a pronghorn antelope, shall immediately fill out all
portions of the tag including the report card completely, legibly, and
permanently, and cut out or punch out and completely remove notches or punch
holes for the month and date of the kill. The tag portion shall be immediately
attached to a horn of buck pronghorn antelope or to an ear of doe pronghorn
antelope and kept attached for 15 days after the close of the open
season.
(C) The tagholder shall
surrender his license tag to an employee of the department for any of the
following reasons:
1. Any act on the part of
the tagholder which violates any of the provisions of the Fish and Game Code,
or any regulations of this commission.
2. Any act on the part of the tagholder which
endangers the person or property of others. The decision of the department in
such respects shall be final and binding upon the
tagholder.
1. New
section filed 7-8-2011; operative 7-8-2011 pursuant to Government Code section
11343.4
(Register 2011, No. 27).
2. Change without regulatory effect
establishing correct subsection hierarchy and amending subsection (b)(2) and
NOTE filed 5-21-2015 pursuant to section
100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations. Changes operative 7-1-2015 pursuant to Stats. 2014, c. 456 (AB
1709), section 1, effective 1-1-2015; operative 7-1-2015 (Register 2015, No.
21).
3. Change without regulatory effect amending NOTE filed
8-8-2019 pursuant to section
100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 2019, No. 32).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
200,
203,
219,
265,
270,
275,
331,
1050,
1572,
3031,
4302
and
10502,
Fish and Game Code. Reference: Sections
110,
200,
201,
203.1,
219,
255,
265,
270,
275,
331,
713,
1050,
1570,
1571,
1572,
3031,
3950,
10500
and
10502,
Fish and Game Code.
