About e-Permits
A better way to buy permits online
Using a personal computer and printer, sport anglers, hunters and trappers can purchase e-Permits through a secure website, print actual permits and use them immediately.
- E-Permits became available March 1, 2011, and will be available through vendors beginning July 2012.
- E-Permits do not apply to special permits and won’t replace other purchasing methods.
- E-Permits do not apply to commercial and other special permits, which must still be bought through the Department’s Permit Services.
- Sport anglers, hunters and trappers can still buy permits through local vendors and by telephone at 1-800-392-4115.
- The online processing fee for e-Permits is $1, which is half the fee of the previous online purchasing system.
Purchase, print and pursue—immediately
While sport anglers, hunters and trappers have been able to buy permits online for years, under the previous system they only received a confirmation number and permit number to print or write down at the time of purchase. They had to use this information while waiting to receive the actual permits through the mail, which took up to two weeks. This delay was especially inconvenient for deer and turkey hunters, who are required to attach the actual permit to harvested game.
With e-Permits, all sport anglers, hunters and trappers have the added convenience of being able to purchase permits through a personal computer, print them and have them in hand immediately. They can also save e-Permits to a personal computer for printing of additional copies. As always, permits may not be shared and additional copies of a permit DO NOT provide additional valid permits for the buyer or others to use.
A few simple changes: Bag it. Notch it. Tag it. Check it.
E-Permits are printed on paper. The key change with printing e-Permits is the printing stock. Buyers print e-Permits on their home printers using standard printer paper instead of the traditional yellow permit stock used by vendors.
New design for deer and turkey permits. Deer and turkey permits have some changes, but other anglers, hunters and trappers get the same types of permits through e-Permits and vendors as they do now. Deer and turkey permits have been redesigned to have months and days of the month printed around the edges. Hunters must notch the month and day as part of recording their harvested game. With the new design for deer and turkey permits, these permits no longer have the adhesive strip currently attached to harvested game as a transportation tag. The permit is the tag.
Paper permits need protection and an attachment method. Deer and turkey hunters need to protect these new paper e-Permits from becoming unreadable. They also still need to attach the permits to harvested game. MDC suggests placing the permits in plastic sandwich bags or protecting the permits in some manner, and then attaching protected permits to harvested game with wire, twine or tape. Instructions for use are on the printed permit sheets.
Deer and turkey permits bought from vendors are still printed on traditional yellow permit stock, but no longer have the adhesive strip traditionally used to attach them to harvested deer and turkey as a transportation tag. Turkey and deer hunters still need to attach permits using items such as wire, twine or tape.
Remember: Bag it. Notch it. Tag it. Check it.
