(1) A nonresident may obtain a hunting license after paying the fee established by the Wildlife Board.

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Terms Used In Utah Code 23A-4-707

  • Big game: means species of hoofed protected wildlife. See Utah Code 23A-1-101
  • Game: means wildlife normally pursued, caught, or taken by sporting means for human use. See Utah Code 23A-1-101
  • Hunting: means to take or pursue a reptile, amphibian, bird, or mammal by any means. See Utah Code 23A-1-101
  • Nonresident: means a person who does not qualify as a resident. See Utah Code 23A-1-101
  • Permit: means a paper-based or electronic document that grants authority to engage in specified activities under this title or a rule or proclamation of the Wildlife Board. See Utah Code 23A-1-101
  • Take: means to:
         (54)(a) hunt, pursue, harass, catch, capture, possess, gather, angle, seine, trap, or kill protected wildlife; or
         (54)(b) attempt an action referred to in Subsection (54)(a). See Utah Code 23A-1-101
  • Upland game: means pheasant, quail, partridge, grouse, ptarmigan, mourning dove, band-tailed pigeon, turkey, cottontail rabbit, or snowshoe hare. 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
  • Wildlife Board: means the board created in Section 23A-2-301. See Utah Code 23A-1-101
(2) A hunting license authorizes the licensee to, according to this title and the Wildlife Board‘s rules and proclamations:

     (2)(a) take small game;
     (2)(b) hunt or trap cougar during a period beginning on January 1 and ending on December 31; and
     (2)(c) apply for or obtain a big game, bear, or turkey hunting permit.
(3)

     (3)(a) Up to 50 cents of the hunting license fee may be used for the upland game program to:

          (3)(a)(i) acquire pen-raised birds; or
          (3)(a)(ii) capture and transplant upland game species.
     (3)(b) The hunting license fee revenue designated for the upland game program by Subsection (3)(a) is in addition to hunting license fee revenue that may be used for the upland game program as provided by Sections 23A-3-207 and 23A-3-208.