77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session NOTE: Matter within { + braces and plus signs + } in an amended section is new. Matter within { - braces and minus signs - } is existing law to be omitted. New sections are within { + braces and plus signs + } . LC 582 House Bill 2250 Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of Governor John A. Kitzhaber, M.D., for State Department of Fish and Wildlife) SUMMARY The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's brief statement of the essential features of the measure as introduced. Extends sunset on landowner preference tags program. A BILL FOR AN ACT Relating to landowner preference tags; amending section 2, chapter 460, Oregon Laws 1995. Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon: SECTION 1. Section 2, chapter 460, Oregon Laws 1995, as amended by section 1, chapter 227, Oregon Laws 2001, section 1, chapter 349, Oregon Laws 2009, and section 2a, chapter 832, Oregon Laws 2009, is amended to read: { + Sec. 2. + } Notwithstanding any other provision of the wildlife laws, during the period beginning January 1, 1996, and ending January 2, { - 2014, - } { + 2024, + } the following provisions apply with regard to the issuance and use of landowner preference tags referred to in ORS 496.146 (4): (1) Landowner preference tags shall be issued for the hunting of deer, elk or antelope. (2) Landowner preference tags may be used only for hunting on the landowner's property. (3) Landowner preference tags for the hunting of deer or elk may be transferred to any person of the landowner's choosing and shall be used for the taking of antlerless animals except as authorized by subsection (6) of this section. (4) Landowner preference tags for the hunting of antelope are not transferable and may not be used for the taking of buck antelope. (5) Each landowner preference tag for the hunting of deer or elk may be used to take two antlerless animals before, during or after the hunting season for which the tags are valid for the purpose of alleviating damage that is presently occurring to the landowner's property, in accordance with such rules as the State Fish and Wildlife Commission may adopt. (6) Landowner preference tags for the hunting of deer or elk that are transferred to a person of the landowner's choosing who is not a member of the landowner's immediate family may be used to take an antlered animal only as follows: (a) If the landowner receives one preference tag, that tag may not be so used. (b) If the landowner receives two, three or four preference tags, one of those tags may be so used. (c) If the landowner receives five, six or seven preference tags, two of those tags may be so used. (d) If the landowner receives eight, nine or 10 preference tags, three of those tags may be so used. (7) Landowners { - must - } { + shall + } pay a $30 fee to register for participation in the program. (8) { - Establishes - } { + A landowner shall pay + } a $15 fee { - for landowners - } to modify the landowner's tag distribution. ----------