The Game, Fish and Parks Commission may provide for a special license that allows a person to hunt one or more game animals. The commission may establish a nonrefundable application fee, not to exceed ten dollars for any resident and not to exceed twenty dollars for any nonresident, to apply for the special license. Licenses issued under this section may authorize the take of no more than ten big game animals annually. Successful applicants shall be selected by drawing. Proceeds from the application fee collected shall be used for habitat programs. The commission shall promulgate rules, pursuant to chapter 1-26, to establish the season and guidelines for the season, and to establish the fee provisions.

The commission shall, before the fourth Tuesday in January of each year, report to the Senate and House standing committees on agriculture and natural resources and on appropriations regarding the activities authorized by this section. The report shall include a description of the season established, the number of licenses issued, the amount of revenue generated, and the progress of the habitat programs funded under this section.

Source: SL 2019, ch 185, § 1.