NAC502.428. Seasons, quotas and other conditions; error by Department.

     1. The Commission will adopt annual regulations pursuant to NAC 502.310 to establish the seasons, quotas per species and subspecies, units and other conditions for the type of hunt in which recipients of big game tags from a Partnership in Wildlife Drawing may participate.

     2. Tags issued through the Partnership in Wildlife Drawing will be in addition to the quotas set for the initial drawing for big game tags. The Commission will set the quota of tags to be issued per species and subspecies for the Partnership in Wildlife Drawing after considering the recommendations of the Department, the county advisory boards to manage wildlife and members of the public who wish to present their views at an open meeting. Tags issued through the Partnership in Wildlife Drawing will be issued for male animals only, except for tags to hunt mountain goats which will be issued for males and females.

     3. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, the annual quotas for Partnership in Wildlife tags will not exceed the following:

(a) Deer tags:
(1) Resident.....................................................................................................	22
(2) Nonresident...............................................................................................	3
(b) Antelope tags (resident).................................................................................	5
(c) Elk tags (resident)...........................................................................................	3
(d) Mountain goat tags (resident)........................................................................	1
(e) Bighorn sheep tags (resident).........................................................................	4

     4. If the Department commits an error which results in the rejection or incorrect processing of an application for a tag that has been submitted in compliance with the regulations of the Commission and the error is confirmed before the close of the seasons, the Department may exceed its quota for the species to which the application pertains and issue a tag to the applicant if his or her draw number was low enough that the applicant would have been awarded a tag in the drawing to which that application pertains if the Department had not committed the error. If the Department confirms an error on a rejected or incorrectly processed application after the close of the seasons, it shall not take any action to correct the error.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Wildlife Comm’rs, eff. 3-28-96; A by R137-03, 1-20-2004, eff. 3-1-2004)