2009 Nebraska Code
Chapter 37 GAME AND PARKS
37-450 Permit to hunt elk; regulation and limitation by commission; issuance; fee; violation; penalty.
(1) The commission may issue permits for hunting elk and may adopt and promulgate separate and, when necessary, different rules and regulations therefor within the limitations prescribed in sections 37-447 and 37-452 for hunting deer.
(2) The commission shall, pursuant to section 37-327, establish and charge (a) a nonrefundable application fee of not more than eight dollars and fifty cents for a resident elk permit and not to exceed three times such amount for a nonresident elk permit and (b) a fee of not more than one hundred forty-nine dollars and fifty cents for each resident elk permit issued and not to exceed three times such amount for each nonresident elk permit issued.
(3) A person may obtain only one antlered-elk permit in his or her lifetime except for a limited permit to hunt elk pursuant to section 37-455.
(4) The provisions for the distribution of deer permits and the authority of the commission to determine eligibility of applicants for permits as described in sections 37-447 and 37-452 shall also apply to the distribution of elk permits.
(5) Any person violating the rules and regulations adopted and promulgated pursuant to this section shall be guilty of a Class III misdemeanor and shall be fined at least two hundred dollars upon conviction.
Source-
Laws 1998, LB 922, § 160;
Laws 2003, LB 306, § 6;
Laws 2005, LB 162, § 16;
Laws 2007, LB299, § 9;
Laws 2009, LB105, § 17.
