29.181 (1m) Issuance. Subject to s. 29.107 29.177 (3) and (3m), the department may issue a bonus deer hunting permit to a person who has a hunting license that authorizes the hunting of deer and who applies for the bonus deer hunting permit.
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Section 251
. 29.1075 (2) of the statutes is renumbered 29.181 (2).
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Section 252
. 29.1075 (2m) (intro.) and (a) of the statutes, as created by 1997 Wisconsin Act 1, are renumbered 29.181 (2m) (intro.) and (a).
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Section 253
. 29.1075 (2m) (b) of the statutes, as created by 1997 Wisconsin Act 1, is renumbered 29.181 (2m) (b) and amended to read:
29.181 (2m) (b) The resident has been issued one bonus deer hunting permit for that season and for that deer management area for which the resident has paid the fee specified under s. 29.092 (2) (ku) 29.563 (2) (c) 1.
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Section 254
. 29.1075 (3) of the statutes is renumbered 29.181 (3) and amended to read:
29.181 (3) Use of fees. The fees received from issuing permits under this section shall be deposited into the conservation fund and credited to the appropriation under s. 20.370 (5) (fq).
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Section 255
. 29.1085 (title) of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, is renumbered 29.184 (title).
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Section 256
. 29.1085 (1b) of the statutes, as created by 1997 Wisconsin Act 1, is renumbered 29.184 (1) and amended to read:
29.184 (1) Definition. Notwithstanding s. 29.01 (8) 29.001 (42), in this section “hunt bear" means to shoot, shoot at, take, catch or kill a bear or pursue, with or without the use of dogs, a bear for the purpose of shooting, shooting at, taking, catching or killing the bear.
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Section 257
. 29.1085 (1m) of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 1, is renumbered 29.184 (2).
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Section 258
. 29.1085 (2) of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 1, is renumbered 29.184 (3), and 29.184 (3) (a) (intro.), as renumbered, is amended to read:
29.184 (3) (a) Prohibition. (intro.) Except as authorized under a Class A bear license or a Class B bear license and under sub. (2m) (5), no person may do any of the following:
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Section 259
. 29.1085 (2g) of the statutes, as created by 1997 Wisconsin Act 1, is renumbered 29.184 (4) and amended to read:
29.184 (4) Use of dogs. While a person is using a dog to hunt bear or to engage in any of the activities specified in sub. (2) (3) (br) 1. to 3., the person shall keep on his or her person any tag required for the dog under s. 95.21 (2) (f), 174.053 (2) or 174.07 (1) (e).
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Section 260
. 29.1085 (2m) of the statutes, as created by 1997 Wisconsin Act 1, is renumbered 29.184 (5) and amended to read:
29.184 (5) Exemption. A person under the age of 12 years may engage in the activities authorized under sub. (2) (3) (br) 1. to 3. without holding a Class B bear license.
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Section 261
. 29.1085 (3) (title) of the statutes is renumbered 29.184 (6) (title).
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Section 262
. 29.1085 (3) (a) of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 1, is renumbered 29.184 (6) (a) and amended to read:
29.184 (6) (a) Application. A person who seeks a Class A or Class B bear hunting license shall apply to the department on forms provided by the department. The department may specify information to be included in the application and other requirements and procedures for application.
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Section 263
. 29.1085 (3) (b) of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Acts 1 and 27, is renumbered 29.184 (6) (b).
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Section
264. 29.1085 (3) (c) (title) of the statutes is renumbered 29.184 (6) (c) (title).
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Section 265
. 29.1085 (3) (c) 1. of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 1, is renumbered 29.184 (6) (c) 1.
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Section 266
. 29.1085 (3) (c) 2. of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Acts 1 and 27, is renumbered 29.184 (6) (c) 2. and amended to read:
29.184 (6) (c) 2. A Class B bear license shall be issued subject to s. 29.09 29.024 by the department to any resident who applies for this license and who pays the required fee.
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Section 267
. 29.1085 (4) and (5) of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 1, are renumbered 29.184 (7) and (8).
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Section 268
. 29.1085 (5g) of the statutes, as created by 1997 Wisconsin Act 1, is renumbered 29.184 (9) and amended to read:
29.184 (9) Back tag. (a) The department shall issue a back tag to each person who is issued a Class A bear license, and the department or county clerk shall issue a back tag to each person who is issued a Class B bear license. The back tag shall be in the form and numbered as required by the department.
(b) No person may hunt bear or engage in the activity specified in sub. (2) (3) (br) 1. or 3. unless there is attached to the center of the person's coat, shirt, jacket or similar outermost garment where it can clearly be seen the back tag issued to the person under par. (a).
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Section 269
. 29.1085 (6) of the statutes is repealed.
Note: Current s. 29.1085 (6) provides:
“29.1085 (6) Rules. The department may promulgate rules to administer and interpret this section.".
The provision is repealed since it duplicates the rule-making authority in new subch. II.
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Section 270
. 29.11 of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, is renumbered 29.204 and amended to read:
29.204 Nonresident annual small game hunting license. A nonresident annual small game hunting license shall be issued subject to s. 29.09 29.024 by the department to any nonresident applying for this license. The nonresident annual small game hunting license authorizes the hunting of small game during the appropriate open season but does not authorize the hunting of deer, bear, wild turkey or fur-bearing animals.
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Section 271
. 29.112 of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, is renumbered 29.207 and amended to read:
29.207 Nonresident 5-day small game hunting license. A nonresident 5-day small game hunting license shall be issued subject to s. 29.09 29.024 by the department to any nonresident applying for this license. The nonresident 5-day small game hunting license authorizes the hunting of small game for which there is an open season during the 5-day period for which it is issued but does not authorize the hunting of deer, bear, wild turkey or fur-bearing animals.
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Section 272
. 29.113 (title) of the statutes is renumbered 29.211 (title).
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Section 273
. 29.113 (1) of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, is renumbered 29.211 (1) and amended to read:
29.211 (1) Issuance. A nonresident deer hunting license shall be issued subject to s. 29.09 29.024 by the department to any nonresident applying for this license.
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Section 274
. 29.113 (2) of the statutes is renumbered 29.211 (2).
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Section 275
. 29.113 (3) of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, is renumbered 29.211 (3) and amended to read:
29.211 (3) Deer tag and back tag. The department shall issue to each person who is issued a nonresident deer hunting license a deer tag and a back tag in the form and numbered as required by the department.
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Section 276
. 29.116 of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, is renumbered 29.213 and amended to read:
29.213 Nonresident fur-bearing animal hunting license. A nonresident fur-bearing animal hunting license shall be issued subject to s. 29.09 29.024 by the department to any nonresident applying for this license. The nonresident fur-bearing animal hunting license authorizes the hunting of skunk, raccoon, fox, weasel, opossum, coyote, bobcat and wildcat
cougar during the appropriate open season but does not authorize the hunting of other fur-bearing animals, other small game, deer or bear.
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Section 277
. 29.117 (title) of the statutes is renumbered 29.216 (title).
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Section 278
. 29.117 (1) of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, is renumbered 29.216 (1) and amended to read:
29.216 (1) Issuance. A nonresident archer hunting license shall be issued subject to s. 29.09 29.024 by the department to any nonresident applying for this license.
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Section 279
. 29.117 (2) of the statutes is renumbered 29.216 (2).
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Section 280
. 29.117 (3) of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, is renumbered 29.216 (3) and amended to read:
29.216 (3) Deer tag and back tag. The department shall issue to each person who is issued a nonresident archer hunting license a deer tag and a back tag in the form and numbered as required by the department.
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Section 281
. 29.123 of the statutes is renumbered 29.195.
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Section 282
. 29.125 of the statutes is renumbered 29.059 and amended to read:
29.059 Reports of hunters. Each person to whom a hunting or trapping license has been issued under this chapter shall, when requested to do so upon request by the department, report to the department, on forms furnished by it, the number of the person's license, the number and kind of each animal taken by the licensee and such other information as that the department requires.
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Section 283
. 29.13 (title) of the statutes is renumbered 29.331 (title) and amended to read:
29.331 (title) Trapping licenses regulation.
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Section 284
. 29.13 (1) (a) of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, is renumbered 29.241 (1) and amended to read:
29.241 (1) Issuance. A trapping license shall be issued subject to s. 29.09 29.024 by the department to any resident applying for this license.
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Section 285
. 29.13 (1) (b) and (c) of the statutes are renumbered 29.241 (3) and (4).
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Section 286
. 29.13 (1) (d) of the statutes is renumbered 29.331 (1) and amended to read:
29.331 (1) Tags. Each trap used under a trapping license shall be tagged with a metal tag stamped with the name and address of the owner. All untagged traps shall be seized and confiscated, and the owner or person using or attending the untagged traps shall be punished as provided under s. 29.99 29.971 (4) and (12).
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Section 287
. 29.13 (2) to (5) of the statutes are renumbered 29.331 (2) to (5), and 29.331 (3) and (3m), as renumbered, are amended to read:
29.331 (3) (title) Report. On or before June first of each year, such 1 annually, the licensee shall report to the department, by affidavit, on blanks furnished by the department, the number of the licensee's license, the number and value of each variety of animals taken during the previous 12 months ending May first 1, and such other information as may be required on the blanks furnished.
(3m) (title) Use of fees. From the moneys received from the sale of trapping licenses issued under this section, the department shall calculate credit an amount equal to $2 times the number of trapping licenses issued and shall credit this amount to the appropriation under s. 20.370 (1) (Lq).
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Section 288
. 29.134 (title) and (1) to (8) of the statutes are renumbered 29.501 (title) and (1) to (8), and 29.501 (1) (intro.) and (b), (2), (6) and (6m) to (8), as renumbered, are amended to read:
29.501 (1) (intro.) For the purpose of carrying out In this section the following definitions for the expressions used are:
(b) “Fur auctioneer" means a person duly licensed to sell furs of wild-fur-bearing animals of this or other states or foreign countries. The department or its representatives may sell confiscated or other furs in its possession by auction or otherwise.
(2) No person shall may engage in the business of buying, bartering, bargaining, trading or otherwise obtaining raw furs until they shall have first secured
he or she has a license therefor issued under this section.
(6) Each resident fur dealer, Class A; resident fur dealer, Class B; fur dresser or dyer; itinerant fur dealer or fur auctioneer license shall bear upon its face the date of issuance. The license shall be shown to the department or its wardens upon request.
(6m) (a) Every person licensed under this section shall keep a correct and complete book record in the English language records of all transactions in the buying, selling, dressing, dyeing or tanning of raw furs carried on by the person. This record shall show the name and post-office address of each person from whom furs were purchased and to whom sold, together with the date of receipt and shipment, and a detailed account as to the number and kinds of raw furs in each shipment received or sold. This record shall be open to the inspection of the department and its agents and wardens at all reasonable hours. The records shall be kept intact for a period of 2 years after the expiration of any license issued under this section, as to all transactions carried on while such the license was effective.
(b) Not less than 10 days before conducting a fur auction, the fur auctioneer shall file with the department evidence of national advertising showing the date and place of such the auction.
(c) Within 10 days after conducting any fur auction, the fur auctioneer shall file with the department on forms furnished by it a report of such the auction containing the date and place of the auction, the names and addresses of all persons buying furs taken from wild fur-bearing animals, the quantities and kinds of such furs bought, and the amounts paid for such the furs by each buyer.
(7) All packages of raw furs shipped or transported by any person shall have plainly marked on the outside of the package or shipment the kinds and number of furs therein in the package or shipment, the license number, and the name of the consignor and the consignee.
(8) No person on the person's own behalf or as an agent for a any person, firm or corporation, express company or other common carrier, shall at any time or in any manner may receive for shipment or cause to be received for shipment out of or in the state, any package of fur or furs unless the same is contents are plainly marked on the outside of the package as to the number and kinds of fur contained therein in the package, the license number, and the address of the consignor and consignee.
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Section 289
. 29.134 (9) of the statutes is repealed.
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Section 290
. 29.134 (10) and (11) of the statutes are renumbered 29.501 (9) and (10), and 29.501 (9), as renumbered, is amended to read:
29.501 (9) Nothing in this section shall prohibit persons prohibits any person from buying raw or dressed furs for the purpose of making themselves garments
or robes of any kind for himself or herself or a member of his or her family, but such persons shall
the person shall apply to the department or its wardens for permits a permit to buy such the furs.
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Section 291
. 29.135 (title) and (1) of the statutes are renumbered 29.503 (title) and (1), and 29.503 (1) (intro.), (c), (d) and (e), as renumbered, are amended to read:
29.503 (1) Definitions. (intro.) As used in In this section, unless the content otherwise requires:
(c) A “producer “Producer of fish" means any person who fishes with or without a crew. No producer who holds a commercial fishing license or contract pursuant to this chapter shall be required to obtain a license to sell the fish he or she produces.
(d) “Seafood" means those types of food sold fresh or frozen and commonly known as oysters, shrimp, lobsters, lobster tails, crabs, scallops, clams and other types of shell fish which are or can be lawfully taken for commercial purposes, but not any canned fish or such fish known as lutefisk.
(e) “Wholesale fish dealer" means any person who buys, barters, sells or solicits fish in any manner for himself or herself or any other person for sale to anyone other than a consumer; but no established retail store or locker plant is deemed a “wholesale fish dealer" solely as the result of the sale of fish to a restaurant, hotel or tavern at no reduction in the retail price charged other retail customers. A producer of fish, except as otherwise hereinafter provided, who sells fish directly to retailers is a wholesale fish dealer. Hotels, meat markets, grocery stores, restaurants and taverns are retailers, except when they sell fish for resale, in which case they are wholesale fish dealers.
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Section 292
. 29.135 (2) (title) of the statutes is renumbered 29.503 (2) (title) and amended to read:
29.503 (2) (title) License required
; exemption.
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Section 293
. 29.135 (2) of the statutes is renumbered 29.503 (2) (a) and amended to read:
29.503 (2) (a) No person shall
may engage in business as a wholesale fish dealer until a unless he or she is issued a wholesale fish dealer license therefor has been obtained from by the department issued pursuant to this section and s. 29.09.
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Section 294
. 29.135 (3) of the statutes is repealed.
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Section 295
. 29.135 (4) to (7) of the statutes are renumbered 29.503 (3) to (6), and 29.503 (4) (b) and (d), (5) (a) and (6), as renumbered, are amended to read:
29.503 (4) (b) Special tagging requirements for lake trout. Effective July 1, 1986, no
No wholesale fish dealer or producer of fish may sell, buy, barter, trade, possess, control or transport any lake trout unless the lake trout is tagged with a valid, current commercial fish tag issued or authorized by the department or by a governmental agency of another state or country. If a licensed wholesale fish dealer gives the department at least 12 hours hours' notice of the date, time and location of arrival at the state line of lawfully possessed, untagged lake trout which are intended for importation into this state by the licensed wholesale fish dealer, the department or its representatives shall meet the shipment of lake trout and attach a “foreign lake trout tag" to each fish or seal the shipment with a department seal which may not be removed prior to delivery to the licensed wholesale fish dealer. The department or its representative shall tag the lake trout in a timely and orderly manner, and so as not to create any damage or spoilage to the fish. The tag shall be attached through the gills and mouth of whole lake trout, or in a manner which results in 2 complete fillets joined by the tag. For tagging of other forms of lake trout, the department shall promulgate rules to determine the manner in which the tag shall be attached to or accompany the trout, and the conditions, if any, under which the tag may be separated from the trout.
