3 CSR 10- 5.545: Nonresident Small Game Hunting Permit

Read the existing regulation
Purpose

This rule establishes a small game hunting permit for nonresidents.

Summary:

This amendment increases the fee for a Nonresident Small Game Hunting Permit to reflect a more current cost adjustment based on changes in the Consumer Price Index.

Title 3 – Department of Conservation
Division 10 – Conservation Commission

Chapter 5—Wildlife Code: Permits

Proposed Amendment

To chase, pursue, take, possess, and transport birds (except turkeys), mammals (except black bears, deer, elk, and furbearers), and frogs, and to chase furbearers for training dogs during the closed season. Fee: [ninety-four dollars ($94)]ninety-eight dollars ($98).

AUTHORITY: sections 40 and 45 of Art. IV, Mo. Const. This rule was previously filed as 3 CSR 10-5.270. This version of rule filed July 22, 1974, effective Dec. 31, 1974. For intervening history, please consult the Code of State Regulations. Amended: Filed May 25, 2023.

PUBLIC ENTITY COST: This proposed amendment will not cost state agencies or political subdivisions more than five hundred dollars ($500) in the aggregate.

PRIVATE ENTITY COST: This proposed amendment will cost private entities an estimated twenty-eight thousand eighty-four dollars ($28,084) annually in the aggregate.

NOTICE TO SUBMIT COMMENTS: Anyone may file a statement in support of or in opposition to this proposed amendment with Regulations Committee Chairman, Department of Conservation, P.O. Box 180, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0180, or via the department’s website at https://short.mdc.mo.gov/Z49. To be considered, comments must be received within thirty (30) days after publication of this notice in the Missouri Register. No public hearing is scheduled.

 

FISCAL NOTE

PRIVATE ENTITY COST

I.          Department Title: Department of Conservation

Division Title: Division 10 – Conservation Commission

Chapter Title: Chapter 5—Wildlife Code: Permits

Rule Number and Name:

3 CSR 10-5.545 Nonresident Small Game Hunting Permit

Type of Rulemaking:

Proposed Amendment

 

II.         SUMMARY OF FISCAL IMPACT

Estimate of the number of entities by class which would likely be affected by the adoption of the proposed rule:

Classification by types of the business entities which would likely be affected:

Estimate in the aggregate as to the cost of compliance with the rule by the affected entities:

Approximately 7,021 individuals

Nonresidents purchasing a Nonresident Small Game Hunting Permit

$28,084 annual aggregate

III.        WORKSHEET

7,021 (Nonresidents purchasing a Nonresident Small Game Hunting Permit) X $4.00 (permit price increase) = $28,084

  1. ASSUMPTIONS

For the permit year 2023, we estimate 7,021 nonresidents purchasing a Nonresident Small Game Hunting Permit. This estimate is based on permit year 2021 sales minus 5%, as historically permit sales are in a slight downward trend.

The commission based its proposed permit-price increases on information from the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index (CPI) related to cost-of-living increases from 2008 to 2022. CPI is a commonly used measurement of the average changes over time in prices paid by consumers for consumer goods and services. The commission is recommending a gradual price increase over 10 years at a CPI of 75% for resident permits and 100% for non-resident and commercial permits.

 

 

Comment on this proposed regulation
Official public comment period: July 4, 2023 to August 2, 2023
Published in the Missouri Register on July 3, 2023 -- Volume 48 Number 13