Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 44 - REGULATION FOR ISSUANCE OF LICENSES, PERMITS, STAMPS, TAGS, PREFERENCE POINTS AND COMPETITIVE RAFFLE CHANCES › Section 44-19 - Drawing Advantage

Current through July 13, 2024
The Department shall develop and maintain a license issue
				  system that allows qualified persons, as prescribed below, who have either
				  purchased a preference point or were unsuccessful in the preference point
				  drawing for a full price bighorn sheep or moose license, or purchased a
				  preference point for nonresident antelope, deer or elk, a drawing advantage in
				  future years as prescribed in Wyoming statutes. All applicants participate in
				  the preference point drawing regardless of their preference point
				  balance.
(a) All preference points
				accumulated through methods not authorized by this regulation or statute shall
				be subject to deletion.
(b)
				Preference points shall be assigned to persons who apply to receive preference
				points during authorized application periods. The following provisions apply to
				the issuance of preference points.
(i) No
				person shall apply for or receive a preference point during any calendar year
				in which the person's privilege to obtain a license has been revoked or
				suspended by a court or the Wildlife Violator Compact.
(ii) Preference points are not transferable
				from one person to another or from one species to another.
(iii) No person may apply for more than one
				(1) preference point per species in the same calendar year. If the applicant
				applies for a preference point for moose or bighorn sheep during the initial
				license drawing period and is either awarded a preference point or receives
				their first choice license in the initial drawing, they shall not apply for a
				preference point for the same species during the preference point only
				application period in the same calendar year. Any preference point awarded in a
				calendar year shall not be considered for advantage in any license drawings
				during the same calendar year in which it was awarded.
(iv) A person shall not apply for or receive
				a separate preference point in the same calendar year in which the person
				receives a full price bighorn sheep or moose license or a first choice license
				in the initial drawing for nonresident antelope, deer or elk.
(v) A person eleven (11) years of age may
				apply for a preference point if the person shall become twelve (12) years of
				age in the same calendar year as the application for a preference point is
				made.
(vi) For the purpose of
				assigning preference points in this Section, any unsuccessful full price
				bighorn sheep or moose license applicant failing to apply for a license or
				preference point during a second consecutive calendar year shall lose all
				accumulated preference points and shall be considered as a first year applicant
				for any subsequent calendar year in which the applicant submits an application
				for a license or a preference point for that particular species.
(vii) For the purpose of retaining
				nonresident antelope, deer or elk preference points in this Section, any
				sportsperson failing to purchase a preference point within two (2) consecutive
				calendar years shall lose all accumulated preference points for that species
				and shall be considered as a first year applicant for any subsequent calendar
				year in which the applicant submits an application for a license.
(viii) For the purpose of retaining bighorn
				sheep and moose preference points in this Section, any sportsperson whose
				residency status changes and who has accumulated preference points shall retain
				those points as long as the sportsperson applies for a license for that
				particular species within two (2) consecutive calendar years. Failing to apply
				for a license or preference point within two (2) consecutive calendar years,
				the sportsperson shall lose all accumulated preference points for that
				particular species.
(ix) A person
				may only request to contest their preference point values to the License Review
				Board for the five (5) year period immediately preceding their
				request.