301 KAR 5:022 - License, tag, and permit fees
RELATES TO: KRS 150.025, 150.180, 150.183, 150.240, 150.275, 150.280, 150.290, 150.450, 150.485, 150.520, 150.525, 150.600, 150.603, 150.660, 150.720
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: KRS 150.175 authorizes the types of licenses, permits, and tags. KRS 150.195(4)(f) requires the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to promulgate an administrative regulation establishing the license and permit terms and the expiration date of licenses and permits. KRS 150.225 requires the department to promulgate administrative regulations establishing reasonable license fees relating to hunting, fishing, and trapping. KRS 150.620 authorizes the department to charge reasonable fees for the use of lands and waters it has acquired for wildlife management and public recreation. This administrative regulation establishes fees and terms for licenses, permits, and tags.
Section
1. Licenses, tags, and permits listed in this section shall be
valid from March 1 through the last day of February the following year, except
the senior lifetime sportsman's license shall be valid for the life of the
license holder while the license holder maintains Kentucky residency.
(1) Sport fishing licenses:
(a) Statewide annual fishing license
(resident): twenty-three (23) dollars;
(b) Statewide annual fishing license
(nonresident): fifty-five (55) dollars;
(c) Joint married couple statewide fishing
license (resident): forty-two (42) dollars;
(d) Statewide three (3) year fishing license
(resident): fifty-five (55) dollars; and
(e) Trout permit: ten (10) dollars.
(2) Commercial fishing licenses:
(a) Commercial fishing license (resident),
plus ten (10) resident commercial gear tags: $150;
(b) Commercial fishing license (nonresident),
plus ten (10) nonresident commercial gear tags: $600; and
(c) Commercial fishing license for Asian carp
and scaled rough fish (nonresident), plus ten (10) nonresident gear tags:
$150.
(3) Commercial
fishing gear tags (shall not be sold singly):
(a) Commercial fishing gear tags (resident)
block of ten (10) tags: fifteen (15) dollars;
(b) Commercial fishing gear tags
(nonresident) block of ten (10) tags: $100; and
(c) Commercial fishing gear tags for Asian
carp and scaled rough fish (nonresident), block of ten (10) tags: fifteen (15)
dollars.
(4) Hunting
licenses:
(a) Statewide hunting license
(resident): twenty-seven (27) dollars;
(b) Statewide hunting license (nonresident):
$160;
(c) Statewide youth hunting
license (resident): six (6) dollars;
(d) Statewide youth hunting license
(nonresident): ten (10) dollars;
(e) Shooting preserve hunting license: five
(5) dollars; and
(f) Migratory bird
and waterfowl permit: fifteen (15) dollars.
(5) Combination hunting and fishing license
(resident): forty-two (42) dollars.
(6) Sportsman's licenses:
(a) Sportsman's license (resident), which
includes a resident hunting and fishing license, spring turkey permit, fall
turkey permit, trout permit, state migratory bird and waterfowl permit, and
statewide deer permit: ninety-five (95) dollars;
(b) Youth sportsman's license (resident),
which may be issued to a person before he or she has reached his or her
sixteenth birthday and for which the privileges remain valid through the end of
the applicable license year, and which includes a statewide hunting license, a
statewide deer permit, a spring turkey permit, fall turkey permit, migratory
game bird and waterfowl permit, statewide annual fishing license, and a Ballard
WMA waterfowl hunt permit valid for all days the license holder lawfully
waterfowl hunts at Ballard WMA: thirty (30) dollars;
(c) Senior sportsman's licenses, which
include a resident hunting and fishing license, spring turkey permit, fall
turkey permit, trout permit, state migratory birdand waterfowl permit, and
statewide deer permit. Senior licenses shall not be valid unless the holder
carries proof of their Kentucky residency and proof of age on the holder's
person while performing an act authorized by the license:
1. Annual senior sportsman's license
(resident): twelve (12) dollars; and
2. Senior lifetime sportsman's license
(resident): $180;
(d)
Disabled sportsman's license (resident), which includes a resident hunting and
fishing license, spring turkey permit, fall turkey permit, trout permit, state
migratory bird, waterfowl permit, and statewide deer permit: twelve (12)
dollars.
(7) Trapping
licenses:
(a) Trapping license (resident):
twenty (20) dollars;
(b) Trapping
license (resident landowner - tenant): ten (10) dollars;
(c) Trapping license (nonresident): $130;
and
(d) Youth trapping license
(resident): five (5) dollars.
(8) Game permits:
(a) Bear permit (resident): thirty (30)
dollars;
(b) Youth bear permit
(resident): ten (10) dollars;
(c)
Bear chase permit (resident): thirty (30) dollars;
(d) Youth bear chase permit (resident): ten
(10) dollars;
(e) Combination bear
permit (resident), which includes a bear permit and a bear chase permit: fifty
(50) dollars;
(f) Bear permit
(nonresident): $250;
(g) Youth bear
permit (nonresident): $100;
(h)
Bear chase permit (nonresident): fifty (50) dollars;
(i) Youth bear chase permit (nonresident):
fifteen (15) dollars;
(j) Quota cow
elk permit (resident): sixty (60) dollars;
(k) Quota cow elk permit (nonresident):
$400;
(l) Quota bull elk permit
(resident): $100;
(m) Quota bull
elk permit (nonresident): $550;
(n)
Quota either sex archery and crossbow elk permit (resident): $100;
(o) Quota either sex archery and crossbow elk
permit (nonresident): $550.
(p)
Out-of-zone elk permit (resident): thirty (30) dollars;
(q) Out-of-zone elk permit (nonresident):
$400;
(r) Statewide deer permit
(resident): thirty-five (35) dollars;
(s) Statewide deer permit (nonresident):
$235;
(t) Statewide youth deer
permit (resident), valid for taking four (4) deer: ten (10) dollars;
(u) Statewide youth deer permit
(nonresident), valid for taking four (4) deer: fifteen (15) dollars;
(v) Additional deer permit: fifteen (15)
dollars;
(w) Spring turkey permit
(resident): thirty (30) dollars;
(x) Spring turkey permit (nonresident):
$110;
(y) Fall turkey permit
(resident): thirty (30) dollars;
(z) Fall turkey permit (nonresident): $110;
(aa) Youth turkey permit
(resident), valid for taking one (1) wild turkey during spring or fall seasons:
ten (10) dollars;
(bb) Youth turkey
permit (nonresident), valid for taking one (1) wild turkey during spring or
fall seasons: fifteen (15) dollars;
(cc) Quota youth elk permit (resident):
thirty (30) dollars; and
(dd) Quota
youth elk permit (nonresident): $200.
(9) Peabody WMA user permit: fifteen (15)
dollars.
(10) Land Between the
Lakes hunting permit: as stated at landbetweenthelakes.us.
(11) Conservation permit: five (5)
dollars.
(12) Bobcat hunting
permit: Free.
(13) Commercial guide
licenses:
(a) Commercial guide license
(resident): $150; and
(b)
Commercial guide license (nonresident): $400.
(14) Experimental commercial fishing methods
program permits:
(a) Tier I experimental
commercial fishing methods program permit (resident): $800;
(b) Tier I experimental commercial fishing
methods program permit (nonresident): $1,600;
(c) Tier II experimental commercial fishing
methods program permit (resident): $1,200; and
(d) Tier II experimental commercial fishing
methods program permit (nonresident): $2,400.
Section 2. Licenses, tags, and permits listed
in this section shall be valid for the calendar year issued.
(1) Live fish and bait dealer's licenses:
(a) Live fish and bait dealer's license
(resident): fifty (50) dollars; and
(b) Live fish and bait dealer's license
(nonresident): $150.
(2)
Commercial taxidermist license: $150.
(3) Shooting area permit: $150.
(4) Dog training area permit: fifty (50)
dollars.
(5) Collecting permits:
(a) Educational wildlife collecting permit:
twenty-five (25) dollars; and
(b)
Scientific wildlife collecting permit: $100.
(6) Nuisance wildlife control operator's
permit: $100.
(7) Pay lake license:
(a) Pay lakes obtaining all fish from private
hatcheries only:
1. Lakes with two (2) acres
or less: $250; and
2. Each
additional acre or part of an acre: Fifty (50) dollars; and
(b) Pay lakes obtaining all or a
portion of catfish from public waters:
1.
Lakes with two (2) acres or less: $600; and
2. Each additional acre or part of an acre:
fifty (50) dollars.
(8) Commercial captive wildlife permit:
$150.
(9) Commercial fish
propagation permit: fifty (50) dollars.
(10) Wildlife rehabilitator's permit:
twenty-five (25) dollars.
(11)
Annual wildlife transportation permit: $250.
(12) Peabody Wildlife Management Area annual
event permit: $250.
Section
3. Licenses, tags, and permits listed in this section shall be
valid for three (3) years from the date of issue.
(1) Falconry permit: seventy-five (75)
dollars.
(2) Noncommercial captive
wildlife permit: seventy-five (75) dollars.
Section 4. Licenses, tags, and permits listed
in this section shall be valid for the date or dates specified on each.
(1) Short-term licenses:
(a) One (1) day fishing license (resident):
seven (7) dollars;
(b) One (1) day
fishing license (nonresident): fifteen (15) dollars;
(c) Seven (7) day fishing license
(nonresident): thirty-five (35) dollars;
(d) One (1) day hunting license (resident)
(not valid for deer, elk, bear, or turkey hunting): seven (7)
dollars;
(e) One (1) day hunting
license (nonresident) (not valid for deer, elk, bear, or turkey hunting):
twenty-five (25) dollars; and
(f)
Seven (7) day hunting license (nonresident) (not valid for deer, elk, bear, or
turkey hunting): sixty-five (65) dollars.
(2) Individual wildlife transportation
permit: twenty-five (25) dollars.
(3) Special resident commercial fishing
permit: $600.
(4) Special
nonresident commercial fishing permit: $900.
(5) Commercial waterfowl shooting area
permit: $150.
(6) Shoot-to-retrieve
field trial permits:
(a) Per trial (maximum
four (4) days): seventy-five (75) dollars; and
(b) Single day: twenty-five (25)
dollars.
(7) Boat dock
permit: $100 per ten (10) year permit period beginning January 1, 2008, except
that the fee shall be pro-rated for the number of years remaining in the ten
(10) year period.
(8) Shoreline use
permit: Valid for a fifteen (15) year permit period beginning January 1, 2010,
pro-rated to the nearest five (5) year interval remaining in the fifteen (15)
year period, and containing three (3) tiers, including:
(a) Tier I: $100;
(b) Tier II: $200; and
(c) Tier III: $300.
(9) Peabody individual event permit:
twenty-five (25) dollars.
(10)
Commercial roe-bearing fish buyer's permit:
(a) Commercial roe-bearing fish buyer's
permit (resident): $500; and
(b)
Commercial roe-bearing fish buyer's permit (nonresident): $1,000.
(11) Commercial roe-bearing fish
harvester's permit:
(a) Commercial roe-bearing
fish harvester's permit (resident): $500; and
(b) Commercial roe-bearing fish harvester's
permit (nonresident): $1,500.
(12) Otter Creek Outdoor Recreation Area:
(a) Daily Entry Permit: three (3) dollars,
with children under twelve (12) free; and
(b) Daily Special Activities Permit: seven
(7) dollars.
(13)
Commercial foxhound training enclosure permit: $150.
(14) Fish transportation permit: twenty-five
(25) dollars.
Section 5.
Licenses, tags, and permits listed in this section shall be valid on a per-unit
basis as specified.
(1) Ballard WMA waterfowl
hunt permit (per person, per day; youths under age sixteen (16) exempted):
fifteen (15) dollars.
(2) Pheasant
hunt permit (per person, per day): twenty-five (25) dollars.
(3) Horse stall rental (per space, per day):
two (2) dollars.
(4) Dog kennel
rental (per dog, per day): fifty (50) cents.
(5) Captive cervid permit (per facility, per
year): $150.
(6) Noncommercial
captive cervid permit (per facility, per three (3) years): seventy-five (75)
dollars.
Section 6. The
following licenses listed in this section shall be valid from April 1 through
March 31 of the following year:
(1) Fur
processor's license (resident): $150;
(2) Fur buyer's license (resident): fifty
(50) dollars; and
(3) Fur buyer's
license (nonresident): $300.
Section
7. The following Otter Creek Outdoor Recreation Area permits shall
be valid from July 1 through June 30 of the following year:
(1) Annual Entry Permit: thirty (30) dollars,
with children under twelve (12) free; and
(2) Annual Special Activities Permit: seventy
(70) dollars.
Section 8.
The following non-refundable application fees listed in this section shall be
valid for the application to hunt in a department administered quota hunt or
for a chance to be drawn for permits as specified.
(1) Pheasant quota hunt application fee:
three (3) dollars.
(2) Antlered elk
firearms quota hunt application fee: ten (10) dollars.
(3) Antlerless elk firearms quota hunt
application fee: ten (10) dollars.
(4) Either-sex elk archery and crossbow quota
hunt application fee: ten (10 dollars).
(5) Youth quota elk hunt application fee: ten
(10) dollars.
(6) Deer quota hunt
application fee: three (3) dollars.
(7) Waterfowl quota hunt application fee:
three (3) dollars.
(8) Sandhill
crane quota hunt application fee: three (3) dollars.
(9) Elk hunt sweepstakes and premium
combination big game permit application fee:
(a) Five (5) dollars for residents and ten
(10) dollars for one (1) application;
(b) Ten (10) dollars for residents and twenty
(20) dollars for nonresidents per bundle of three (3) applications;
and
(c) Twenty-five (25) dollars
for residents and fifty (50) dollars for nonresidents per bundle of ten (10)
applications.
(10)
Standard combination big game permit application fee:
(a) Three (3) dollars for residents and six
(6) dollars for nonresidents for one (1) application;
(b) Eight (8) dollars for residents and
sixteen (16) dollars for nonresidents per bundle of three (3) applications;
and
(c) Twenty (20) dollars for
residents and forty (40) dollars for nonresidents per bundle of ten (10)
applications.
Notes
STATUTORY AUTHORITY: KRS 150.175, 150.195(4)(f), 150.225, 150.620
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