what do you guys think

[hoyt]

My buddy lives out in Wyoming where he has been living since April. This past fall him and his ol' lady got mule deer tags at the local dnr office. Two days later he go fined for hunting with a invalid license. I guess he didn't meet residency requierments for wyoming when they bought them, but would't one think that they should have checked that when he bought the license at the dnr office. now he can't hunt in 27 different states for 2 years. i think he kinda got hosed.....ya he should have checked in to the requirments but he should not have been able to even buy a residence license. His adress and drivers license and all that stuff werw wyoming, he meet the requirments for that stuff but not hunting i guess.

[corybdesign]

up until '09 i could just walk in and buy a paper license so its not like they do a background check everywhere. it may be that he was a resident but when he applied for a resident tag he didn't meet residency status. thats why i always get names of who i talked to and ask more than 1 person on stuff like this. it can be a bit vague or confusing at times.

[h20fowler]

Kansas requires you be a resident for 60 days before being able to apply for resident permits.


Description of Resident:
Any resident of Kansas not qualified as a landowner/tenant. Any person who has maintained the person's place of permanent abode in this state for a period of 60 days immediately preceding the person's application for any license, permit, stamp or other issue of the department. Domiciliary intent is required to establish that a person is maintaining the person's place of permanent abode in this state. Mere ownership of property is not sufficient to establish domiciliary intent. Evidence of domiciliary intent includes, without limitation, the location where the person votes, pays personal income taxes or obtains a driver's license.

This is intended to keep people from buying a shack out in the middle of nowhere for pennies on the dollar in order to pick up big game tags, or reduced pricing on licenses.

It's not an uncommon practice.

Not that it helps now, but here is an interesting link.

http://gf.state.wy.us/downloads/pdf/Resident.pdf


It is the person’s responsibility to determine his or her individual residency
status prior to applying for or purchasing a resident license. It is
not the license agent’s responsibility to determine or verify residency
status. If in doubt about your residency status, please contact your local
Wyoming Game and Fish Department enforcement personnel.

It should be noted that the definition of residency for the
purpose of purchasing resident hunting, fishing, trapping
licenses, and preference points is vastly different than for other
purposes such as driver’s license, voter registration, vehicle registration,
college tuition, jury duty, tax purposes and/or professional and
business licenses. Residency requirements may also be different
than the state in which you have/had residency.

And Wyoming's rule

To qualify for any resident game and fish license, permit, preference
point, or tag, a person shall be domiciled and shall physically reside in
Wyoming for one (1) full year (365 consecutive days) immediately
preceding the date the person applies for or purchases the license,
permit, preference point, or tag and the person shall not have claimed
residency elsewhere for any other purpose (including, but not limited
to, voting, payment of income taxes, purchase of resident hunting, fishing,
or trapping licenses, etc.) for that one (1) year period.
Any active duty member, the spouse, or minor child of any active duty
member of the armed forces of the United States who has been stationed
in Wyoming for ninety (90) days also qualifies for resident licenses,
so long as the member remains stationed in Wyoming.

I feel that 365 days is a little extreme. OK, a whole lot of extreme. But that is their law. I also think that the consequences he faces are EXTREME! He bought the license. He did it right. He was just misinformed. It's entirely different then just poaching one out of the truck

[goosekiller83]

one year is a long time to wait colorado is the same way thats why i now live in kansas plus the bird hunting is better

[h20fowler]

No it isn't. Look at Jeff's trip to stillater out there in Colorado. Kansas can not compete with that consistency.... :wink:

[T&G Outdoors]

Matt got hosed!!!!

[jaysweet]

Yeah, that is a harsh penalty. I feel for the guy.

[freefall319]

We've owned property in Wyoming for 16 years ( a house & 4K + acres ). But since we dont live there 365 we still have to buy non-resident tags. My grandparents live there 8 months out of the year, have Wyoming plates on thier cars and still cant buy resident tags. They take it very seriouly there. That is how that state generates a lot of it's revenue. They were having problems with people buying PO boxes years ago and using that as thier address so they could buy resident tags. That's why they changed the law.