NAC502.4187. Bonus points: Award and accumulation; effect of refund.

     1. Except as otherwise provided in NAC 502.416 to 502.4225, inclusive, an applicant to obtain a tag for a season who is unsuccessful, or an applicant for a bonus point who does not wish to obtain a tag and is applying for the sole purpose of earning a bonus point, must be awarded a bonus point for:

     (a) The hunt number of the species for which the applicant applied if he or she applied for a:

          (1) Tag to hunt wild turkey; or

          (2) Bonus point for a tag described in subparagraph (1); or

     (b) The category of the species for which he or she applied if he or she applied for a tag to hunt deer, elk, mountain goat, antelope, black bear or bighorn sheep, or for a bonus point for such a tag.

Ê Regardless of the number of applications to obtain a tag or bonus point for a season submitted by a person, the Department shall not award the person more than one bonus point per season for each species or category of a species for which the person applied.

     2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, the bonus points awarded to a person accumulate until the person is successful in drawing a tag for a season for that species or category of a species or the person fails to apply for a season for 2 consecutive calendar years during which that type of hunt for a season is open. If an applicant is successful in drawing a tag for a season for a species or category of a species or fails to apply for a season for 2 consecutive calendar years during which that type of hunt for a season is open, the applicant loses all of his or her bonus points for that species or category of a species.

     3. Except as otherwise provided in NAC 502.4189, a person may not use any bonus points awarded to the person for being unsuccessful in a junior hunt to apply for a drawing for a tag for any other type of hunt after the person is no longer eligible to participate in a junior hunt.

     4. If an applicant requests and receives a refund for the value of his or her hunting license, the Department shall not award the applicant a bonus point for any species or category of species applied for during the period that the applicant possessed the hunting license.

     5. The Department shall not award bonus points for depredation hunts or management hunts.

     6. As used in this section, “management hunt” means a hunt established to seek the harvest of additional wildlife within a population.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Wildlife Comm’rs, eff. 10-26-93; A by R168-99, 1-19-2000; R010-00, 4-3-2000; R137-03, 1-20-2004; R229-03, 3-23-2004; R126-06, 9-18-2006; R115-07, 12-4-2007; R002-11, 10-26-2011; R091-13, 12-23-2013)