(1) A person shall pay for each fee year, a big game byproduct fee of six cents multiplied by the total number of pounds of big game byproduct sold, bartered, exchanged, or traded under authority of a certificate of registration issued by the division under Section 23A-11-502.

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Terms Used In Utah Code 23A-11-503

  • Big game: includes deer, elk, big horn sheep, moose, mountain goats, pronghorn. See Utah Code 23A-11-101
  • Big game byproduct: means those parts of the carcass of a lawfully taken big game animal that are listed in Subsections (2)(a)(i) through (ix):
              (2)(a)(i) bones with less than 1/2 inch of attached muscle tissue;
              (2)(a)(ii) fat, tendons, ligaments, cartilage, and silverskin with less than 1/2 inch attached muscle tissue;
              (2)(a)(iii) muscle tissue damaged by wound channels and within one inch of damaged tissue;
              (2)(a)(iv) head;
              (2)(a)(v) rib and neck meat on deer, pronghorn, mountain goat, and bighorn sheep;
              (2)(a)(vi) antlers and horns;
              (2)(a)(vii) legs below the knee and hock;
              (2)(a)(viii) internal organs; and
              (2)(a)(ix) hide. See Utah Code 23A-11-101
  • Certificate of registration: means a paper-based or electronic document issued under this title, or a rule or proclamation of the Wildlife Board granting authority to engage in activities not covered by a license, permit, or tag. See Utah Code 23A-1-101
  • Division: means the Division of Wildlife Resources. See Utah Code 23A-1-101
  • fee year: means a one-year period beginning on April 1 and ending on March 31 of the following year. See Utah Code 23A-11-501
  • Game: means wildlife normally pursued, caught, or taken by sporting means for human use. See Utah Code 23A-1-101
  • Person: means an individual, association, partnership, government agency, corporation, or an agent of the individual, association, partnership, government agency, or corporation. See Utah Code 23A-1-101
  • Wildlife: means :
         (61)(a) crustaceans, including brine shrimp and crayfish;
         (61)(b) mollusks; and
         (61)(c) vertebrate animals living in nature, except feral animals. See Utah Code 23A-1-101
(2) A big game byproduct fee payment is due on the April 15 immediately following the last day of a fee year.
(3) The division shall deposit revenue generated by the big game byproduct fee into the Wildlife Resources Account created in Section 23A-3-201.
(4)

     (4)(a) Subject to Subsection (4)(b), the division may suspend a person’s certificate of registration if the person fails to pay a big game byproduct fee under this part.
     (4)(b) Upon notification of non-payment by the division, the certificate of registration holder has 10 business days to pay the past due big game byproduct fee before the division may suspend the certificate of registration.