2023 Idaho Code › Title 36 - FISH AND GAME › Chapter 21 - OUTFITTERS AND GUIDES › Section 36-2108 - APPLICATION FOR LICENSE — CONTENTS — FEE — QUALIFICATIONS — TERM — BOND.

36-2108. APPLICATION FOR LICENSE — CONTENTS — FEE — QUALIFICATIONS — TERM — BOND. (a) Each applicant for an outfitter’s or guide’s license shall make application for such license upon a form to be prescribed and furnished by the board.
1. All applications for an outfitter’s license shall be signed by the applicant, under oath or affirmation that all information supplied by him in the application form is true and correct as he verily believes and shall be duly notarized. Such applications shall include, but are not limited to, a worded description of the boundaries of the operating area in which such activity will be conducted.
2. All applications for a guide’s license shall be signed by the applicant.
(b) Applications shall be made to and filed with the board and, unless arrangements have been made otherwise with the board, accompanied by proof of eligibility for a bond payable to the person or persons employing the licensee and in a form approved by the board in the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for outfitters, to be executed by a qualified surety, duly authorized to do business in this state, conditioned that for the current license year said applicant, his agents and employees, if said license is issued to him, shall conduct his business as an outfitter without fraud or fraudulent representation, and will faithfully perform his contracts with and duties to his patrons; said bond shall be filed with the board before issuance of the license as provided herein.
(c) The board, in its discretion, may make such additional investigation and inquiry relative to the applicant and his qualifications as it shall deem advisable, provided that final decision by the board upon an application submitted by an applicant who has held during the preceding license year a license of the same kind for which application is made, and upon an application submitted by an applicant not holding during the preceding license year a license of the same kind or embracing the same activity(ies) or area for which application is made, shall be made not later than the end of the license year in which the board receives all materials required to be submitted in order to complete a license application or ninety (90) days from the date the board receives all such materials, whichever is later.
(d) The applicant shall pay license, penalty, amendment and application fees to the board as hereinafter provided:
1. The license fee shall be paid prior to the issuance of a license.
2. The license fee shall be used for the investigation of applicants, for enforcement of this chapter, and for the administration costs of the board.
3. The license fee for outfitters shall be four hundred dollars ($400) for online licensing and four hundred fifty dollars ($450) for offline licensing; the license fee for a designated agent as defined in section 36-2102(b), Idaho Code, shall be one hundred forty dollars ($140) for online licensing and one hundred sixty dollars ($160) for offline licensing; and the license fee for guides shall be one hundred five dollars ($105) for online licensing and one hundred fifteen dollars ($115) for offline licensing.
4. A penalty fee in the amount of one hundred fifty dollars ($150) may be charged in addition to the regular outfitter’s license fee for any such renewal applicant whose application is not complete by the end of the outfitter’s license year; this does not apply to a new applicant for an outfitter’s license.
5. A two-hundred-dollar ($200) fee shall be charged for every amendment to an outfitter’s license other than a minor amendment, a thirty-five-dollar ($35.00) fee shall be charged for every minor amendment to an outfitter’s license, and a twenty-dollar ($20.00) fee shall be charged for every amendment to the license of a designated agent or guide.
6. The following fees shall be established annually by the board and shall be used for application related expenses: a one-time application fee for outfitters not to exceed four hundred dollars ($400); a one-time application fee for designated agents not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00); and a one-time application fee for guides not to exceed twenty dollars ($20.00). The board shall establish by rule a policy to refund unused application fees and shall establish by rule fees for expedited, exceptional, resubmittal or emergency processing of license applications, a fee credit for electronic filing of applications and a fee for the use of credit cards corresponding to the cost to the agency of processing the card use.
History:
[36-2108, added 1976, ch. 95, sec. 2, p. 391; am. 1978, ch. 131, sec. 3, p. 294; am. 1983, ch. 74, sec. 1, p. 160; am. 1984, ch. 262, sec. 1, p. 632; am. 1988, ch. 269, sec. 7, p. 890; am. 1988, ch. 288, sec. 1, p. 922; am. 1991, ch. 131, sec. 2, p. 289; am. 1998, ch. 339, sec. 1, p. 1085; am. 2000, ch. 290, sec. 1, p. 1005; am. 2001, ch. 271, sec. 4, p. 992; am. 2003, ch. 75, sec. 1, p. 247; am. 2003, ch. 77, sec. 1, p. 250; am. 2004, ch. 158, sec. 1, p. 509; am. 2023, ch. 152, sec. 3, p. 409.]