Bill Text: OR HB2251 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

Oregon House Bill 2251 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the Southwest Oregon Landowner Preference Program.

Spectrum: Unknown

Status: (Failed) 2013-07-08 - In committee upon adjournment. [HB2251 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2013-HB2251-Introduced.html



     77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session

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LC 583

                         House Bill 2251

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.

  Removes sunset on program that provides landowner preference
tags to address damage caused by elk on privately owned land in
southwest Oregon.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the Southwest Oregon Landowner Preference Program;
  amending section 1, chapter 461, Oregon Laws 2003.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. Section 1, chapter 461, Oregon Laws 2003, as amended
by section 1, chapter 8, Oregon Laws 2007, and section 1, chapter
832, Oregon Laws 2009, is amended to read:
   { +  Sec. 1. + } Notwithstanding any other provision of the
wildlife laws, the State Department of Fish and Wildlife shall
create and implement a Southwest Oregon Landowner Preference
 { - Pilot - }  Program
  { - during the period beginning July 1, 2004, and ending June
30, 2014, - }  that:
  (1) Addresses damage caused by elk on privately owned lands in
Jackson, Josephine, Coos, Curry and Douglas Counties.
  (2) Provides landowner preference tags only for areas where elk
are currently causing damage, where there has been a history of
elk damage coupled with actions to alleviate elk damage or where
the department has designated the area as an elk deemphasis area.
  (3) Limits the use of tags to taking antlerless elk.
  (4) Limits the use of tags to taking elk on property owned,
leased or rented by the landowner complaining of elk damage or on
property owned, leased or rented by a business entity that
includes the landowner as a principal partner or shareholder.
  (5) Allows exchange of unused general season elk tags or
controlled hunt elk tags for landowner preference tags.
  (6) Does not impose a limit on the number of total tags
available for each property, except that no more than five tags
may be valid at any one time on a particular property.
  (7) Does not impose a minimum acreage requirement for landowner
participation.
  (8) Allows landowners to register for participation in the
program at any time prior to the issuance of tags.
  (9) Establishes a $30 fee for landowners to register for
participation in the program.
  (10) Establishes a $15 fee for landowners to modify the
landowner's tag distribution.
  (11) Authorizes department biologists to sell and exchange
tags.
  (12) Authorizes department biologists to establish the period
of validity for tags through negotiation with landowners.
  (13) Requires landowners to record the number of elk taken and,
within 10 days after the end of a designated hunt period, to
report to the local department biologist the number of elk taken.
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