NAC502.4188. Bonus points: Categories of species.

     1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, any bonus points awarded by the Department pursuant to the bonus point program must be awarded in one of the following categories of species, subspecies and gender:

     (a) Antlered mule deer;

     (b) Antlerless mule deer;

     (c) Mule deer, either antlered or antlerless;

     (d) Antlered Rocky Mountain elk;

     (e) Antlerless Rocky Mountain elk;

     (f) Rocky Mountain elk, either antlered or antlerless;

     (g) Spike Rocky Mountain elk;

     (h) Pronghorn antelope whose horns are longer than their ears;

     (i) Pronghorn antelope whose horns are shorter than their ears;

     (j) Rams, from one of the following subspecies:

          (1) Nelson bighorn sheep;

          (2) California bighorn sheep; or

          (3) Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep;

     (k) Ewes, from one of the following subspecies:

          (1) Nelson bighorn sheep;

          (2) California bighorn sheep; or

          (3) Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep;

     (l) Mountain goats; or

     (m) Black bears.

     2. Bonus points awarded by the Department pursuant to the bonus point program for wild turkey hunts must be awarded by hunt number.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Wildlife Comm’rs by R168-99, eff. 1-19-2000; A by R180-01, 4-3-2002; R126-06, 9-18-2006; R002-11, 10-26-2011; R091-13, 12-23-2013)

Notation

REVISER’S NOTE.

      The regulation of the Board of Wildlife Commissioners filed with the Secretary of State on January 19, 2000 (LCB File No. R168-99), the source of NAC 502.4188 (section 6 of the regulation), contains the following provisions not included in NAC:

      “Sec. 42.  1.  Except as otherwise provided in this section, the Division of Wildlife [now the Department of Wildlife] shall convert any bonus points that a person has accumulated pursuant to the bonus point program before the effective date of this regulation [January 19, 2000] into bonus points for a category of a species set forth in section 6 of this regulation [NAC 502.4188] by separating the bonus points accumulated into bonus points for a particular category of a species except that the maximum number of bonus points converted into a particular category of a species must not exceed the number of years that the bonus point program has been in existence.

      2.  The Division of Wildlife [now the Department of Wildlife] shall not convert any bonus points that a person has accumulated before the effective date of this regulation [January 19, 2000] for wild turkey, swan and depredation hunts for special seasons.”