NAC502.4239. Questionnaire: Completion and submission to independent contractor designated by Department; correction; denial and reinstatement of certain privileges.

     1. Unless otherwise provided by an annual regulation of the Commission, the questionnaire issued as part of a restricted nonresident deer tag must be properly completed and received by the independent contractor designated by the Department not later than 5 p.m. on January 31, or the next business day if January 31 falls on a weekend or state holiday, following the close of the season for which the tag was issued.

     2. The Department shall annually designate and publish the name and address of an independent contractor who will receive the questionnaire pursuant to subsection 1.

     3. A person who fails to return the questionnaire within the time specified or who submits incomplete or false information on the questionnaire will be denied all big game tags for 1 year. A person who has been denied a big game tag pursuant to this subsection may have those privileges reinstated if he or she:

     (a) Using a postal service:

          (1) Pays to the Department an administrative fine of $50; and

          (2) Submits to the independent contractor designated by the Department the properly completed questionnaire issued as part of the restricted nonresident deer tag or the information required by the questionnaire, all of which must be received by the third Friday in March;

     (b) Together with an application that is submitted electronically for a restricted nonresident deer tag:

          (1) Pays to the Department an administrative fine of $50; and

          (2) Submits to the independent contractor designated by the Department the properly completed questionnaire issued as part of the restricted nonresident deer tag or the information required by the questionnaire on or before the deadline for the application for the restricted nonresident deer hunt drawing; or

     (c) Together with an application that is submitted electronically for a big game tag in the main drawing:

          (1) Pays to the Department an administrative fine of $50; and

          (2) Submits to the independent contractor designated by the Department the properly completed questionnaire issued as part of the big game tag or the information required by the questionnaire on or before the deadline for the application for the main draw.

     4. The Department shall allow an applicant to correct a questionnaire if:

     (a) The independent contractor receives the questionnaire and enters the information on the questionnaire into the computer;

     (b) The questionnaire contains an error that causes the computer to send to the applicant a letter of rejection and blank correction document; and

     (c) The independent contractor receives the completed correction document on or before the deadline set forth in the correction document.

     5. If the independent contractor receives the completed correction document on or before the deadline set forth in the correction document, the independent contractor shall use the information contained in the correction document to update the applicant’s file on the computer.

     6. If the applicant submits a correction document that does not contain information sufficient to correct every error in the questionnaire or the correction document is not received by the independent contractor on or before the deadline set forth in the correction document, the questionnaire will be considered incomplete pursuant to subsection 3.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Wildlife Comm’rs, eff. 10-12-94; A by R025-03, 10-30-2003; R117-07, 12-4-2007)