NAC502.4195. Error by Department.

     1. If the Department commits an error which results in the rejection or incorrect processing of an application to obtain a tag that has been submitted in compliance with the regulations of the Commission, the Department shall, until the close of the season, issue the remaining tags applied for and then, if there are no further tags available, the Department may exceed its quota for the type of hunt to which the application pertains.

     2. The Department shall issue a tag for a season to an applicant who, because the applicant was assigned a low draw number, would have been awarded a tag in the drawing to which his or her application pertains if not for the error of the Department specified in subsection 1.

     3. If the Department confirms an error on a rejected or incorrectly processed application for a tag after the close of all the seasons, the Department shall award that applicant a bonus point for the species or the category of the species for which the application was submitted. The bonus point is not effective until the next drawing for that hunt. The Department must receive notification of the error before the expiration of the period for submission of applications for the same hunt in the next open season. If the application was one of two or more applications submitted by a group of persons applying as a party for deer tags, the Department shall treat the applicant the same as the remaining members of his or her party.

     4. If the Department confirms an error on a rejected or incorrectly processed application for a bonus point after the close of all the seasons, the Department shall award that applicant a bonus point for the species or the category of species for which the application was submitted. The bonus point is not effective until the next drawing for that hunt. The Department must receive notification of the error before the expiration of the period for submission of applications for the same hunt in the next open season.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Wildlife Comm’rs, eff. 3-7-91; A 4-14-92; 10-26-93; 10-12-94; R168-99, 1-19-2000; R137-03, 1-20-2004; R229-03, 3-23-2004)