NAC502.4189. Bonus points: Use; transfer; applications by group for certain tags.

     1. Each applicant in a drawing for a tag for a season receives a number of additional draw numbers that is equal to the number of bonus points that he or she has accumulated squared, as expressed in the following equation:

n=b²

where “n” is the number of additional draw numbers and “b” is the number of bonus points. The number of additional draw numbers determines the number of draw numbers for the species or category of the species for which the application was submitted. The applicant’s lowest randomly assigned draw number is the number used for the drawing.

     2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5, bonus points accumulated by a person for a species or category of species cannot be transferred to any other person or any other species or category of species.

     3. An applicant may transfer bonus points to himself or herself as a resident or nonresident of this State, as appropriate, if:

     (a) The applicant changes his or her state of residence;

     (b) The applicant requests in writing that the Department transfer those bonus points; and

     (c) The Department approves the request for the transfer.

Ê Bonus points transferred pursuant to this subsection apply to the same species or category of species to which they applied before the transfer.

     4. The number of bonus points applicable to applications submitted by a group pursuant to NAC 502.4185 for tags is the quotient of the total number of points held by the members of the group divided by the number of members in the group, rounded to the nearest whole number.

     5. If a person has applied for a junior hunt for deer for 5 years or becomes ineligible to participate in a junior hunt for deer because of his or her age, each unused bonus point accumulated by that person for a junior hunt for deer automatically transfers to the category for antlered mule deer. The provisions of this subsection do not apply to a bonus point accumulated by the person for a junior hunt for deer in a year in which the person also accumulated a bonus point in the category for antlered mule deer.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Wildlife Comm’rs, eff. 10-26-93; A by R040-98, 5-27-98; R139-98, 11-13-98; R168-99, 1-19-2000; R010-00, 4-3-2000; R137-03, 1-20-2004; R115-07, 12-4-2007; R150-09, 6-30-2010; R160-12, 12-20-2012)

Notation

REVISER’S NOTE.

      The regulation of the Board of Wildlife Commissioners filed with the Secretary of State on June 30, 2010 (LCB File No. R150-09), which amended this section, contains the following provisions not included in NAC:

      “If a person who is ineligible to participate in a junior hunt because of his or her age or the number of years for which the person has applied for a junior hunt becomes eligible to participate in a junior hunt pursuant to the amendatory provisions of this regulation, the Department of Wildlife shall:

      1.  Reinstate to the category for the junior hunt each unused bonus point accumulated by that person and automatically transferred pursuant to subsection 4 of NAC 502.4189 before June 30, 2010;

      2.  Reduce the number of bonus points in the category for antlered mule deer by the number of bonus points transferred pursuant to subsection 1; and

      3.  Retain in the category for antlered mule deer each bonus point which was earned by the person before June 30, 2010, for each unsuccessful application for the issuance of a tag to hunt mule deer.”