29.164 Wild turkey hunting approvals.

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(1)Definitions. As used in this section:

(a)“Family member” means a person who is related to another person as a parent, child, spouse or sibling.

(b)“Landowner” means the owner of record of a parcel of land or the purchaser of land under a land contract who has the right to occupy and the right to use the land.

(c)“Operator” means a resident who is residing on a parcel of land under a rental agreement, lease, agreement or contract and who is engaged in farm activities or other operations on the land.

(d)“Resident applicant” includes a qualified resident landowner who applies for a wild turkey hunting license.

(2)Authorization; restrictions.

(a)Department authority. The department may regulate and limit the hunting of wild turkeys by issuing licenses under this section. The department may not require the possession or validation of a wild turkey carcass tag and may not require that a carcass tag be attached to a lawfully killed wild turkey.

(b)Type of hunting authorized. A license issued under this section authorizes hunting with a firearm, airgun, bow and arrow, or crossbow.

(c)Requirements.

1. No person may hunt wild turkey unless he or she has a valid wild turkey hunting license and a valid wild turkey hunting stamp attached to or imprinted on the person’s wild turkey hunting license in the manner required by the rule promulgated under s. 29.024

(a)3.

2. If the department establishes a wild turkey hunting zone where or a season time period during which wild turkey hunting is permitted, no person may hunt wild turkeys in that wild turkey hunting zone or during that season time period unless the person has a wild turkey hunting license and a valid wild turkey hunting stamp as required under subd. 1. and unless the person has a wild turkey hunting authorization that is valid for that zone and that time period.

(d)Exception. Any person holding a senior citizen recreation card or a conservation patron license is exempt from the requirements under par.

(c)if the person has received a notice of approval under sub.

(e)and the person is exempt from paying the fee for the wild turkey hunting license.

(3)Wild turkey hunting licenses.