NAC502.405. Questionnaire with big game tag: Submission of information 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 properly completed questionnaire issued as part of a big game tag or the information required by the questionnaire must be 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 or the information required by the questionnaire pursuant to subsection 1.

     3. A person who fails to return the questionnaire or the information required by the questionnaire within the period 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 the person:

     (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 big game tag or the information required by the questionnaire, all of which must be received by the third Friday in March; or

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

          (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.

     [Bd. of Fish & Game Comm’rs, No. 6 § 5, eff. 9-1-78; + No. 25 § 8 + No. 26 § 8, eff. 12-4-79]—(NAC A by Bd. of Wildlife Comm’rs, 12-3-80, eff. 12-5-80; 4-27-84, eff. 5-25-84; 2-18-88; R136-98, 11-13-98; R168-99, 1-19-2000; R106-02, 1-21-2003; R024-03, 10-30-2003; R156-05, 2-23-2006; R117-07, 12-4-2007)