Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) Under the Hunter Education Instructor
Incentive Program ("Incentive Program"), the department shall award incentives
including, but not limited to, big game tags provided voluntarily by licensed
Private Lands Management areas, Cooperative Elk or Deer Hunting areas, or other
tags or hunts designated by the department, other hunting opportunities, and
firearms, to eligible department-certified Hunter Education Instructors. The
incentives shall be awarded annually in a random drawing according to the
following rules.
(b) Eligibility
Criteria
(1) Only certified instructors who
meet the following eligibility criteria may participate in Incentive Program
drawings.
(2) To be eligible to
participate in a drawing, instructors must have been in active status for a
minimum of three (3) consecutive years, inclusive of the year prior to the
drawing. Instructors will earn an additional drawing entry for every ten (10)
years of active service.
(3) To
maintain active status, an instructor shall complete in-service training
requirements, teach or assist in teaching at least one course per calendar
year, and submit an annual income and expense record. The instructor must meet
these requirements by December 31st of any given year to be considered eligible
for an Incentive Program drawing offered the following year.
(4) Instructors with revoked or suspended
Hunter Education Instructor certification are ineligible to participate in
Incentive Program drawings.
(5)
Paid staff within the department's Hunter Education Program are ineligible to
participate in Incentive Program drawings.
(6) Instructors who are drawn and accept a
tag or hunt shall not be eligible to participate in the next five annual
Incentive Program drawings.
(c) Incentive Program Drawing Procedures
(1) Each eligible instructor listed in the
department's Hunter Education Instructor database shall be assigned a random
number in the drawing for each year's pool of donated or department-designated
tags or hunts. This drawing will commence in the second week of July each year
and proceed until all available tags or hunts are issued. Alternate instructors
may be drawn to ensure that all tags or hunts are claimed.
(2) Among the instructors that are drawn, the
instructor that is drawn first shall select a tag or hunt from the available
tags or hunts, and further selections shall proceed based upon the order in
which instructors were drawn.
(3)
If any instructor fails to accept or select an available tag or hunt within
three (3) days of being notified by phone, the instructor's selection rights
will be forfeited and the next instructor in order will be contacted.
(4) If an instructor who accepted a tag or
hunt later declines the opportunity and notifies the department, prior to the
opening day of the relevant season, that they will not participate in the
selected hunt, alternate instructors shall be contacted in the order they were
drawn and offered the opportunity to accept the tag or hunt.
(5) Instructors who accept a tag are required
to pay the applicable tag fee set forth in the Fish and Game Code or these
regulations.
(6) Accumulated
preference points from general big game drawings shall not be considered or
applied in any Hunter Education Instructor Incentive Program
drawings.
1. New
section filed 4-25-2013; operative 7-1-2013 (Register 2013, No.
17).
Note: Authority cited: Section
3051,
Fish and Game Code. Reference: Sections
702,
3049,
3050
and
3051,
Fish and Game Code.
