{"data":{"id":"us-mt/87-2-512","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"87-2-512","heading":"Separation of Class B-7 license from Class B-10 license for deer management purposes -- disposition of license revenue.","body":"(1) The commission may by rule separate the Class B-7 license from the Class B-10 license and sell the separated Class B-7 license, giving a preference to any Class B-10 license holder to purchase one of the separated Class B-7 licenses. In the case of separated Class B-7 licenses that are not purchased by Class B-10 license holders, the commission, for purposes of sound deer management:\n(a) may authorize the sale of not more than 5,000 Class B-7 licenses that have been separated from the Class B-10 licenses, as limited by 87-2-504;\n(b) may authorize all or a portion of the separated Class B-7 licenses to be sold as Class B-11 combination licenses;\n(c) shall set the fees for the separated licenses as follows:\n(i) the fee for a Class B-10 license without the deer tag may not be more than the fee set in 87-2-505 for licenses in the general category; and\n(ii) the fee for the separated Class B-11 licenses may not be more than the fees specified in 87-2-510 for licenses in the general and landowner-sponsored categories;\n(d) may assign the separated Class B-7 or Class B-11 licenses for use in specific administrative regions, portions of administrative regions, hunting districts, or portions of hunting districts;\n(e) may allocate a portion of the separated Class B-7 or Class B-11 licenses among the general and landowner-sponsored categories established in 87-2-510 and 87-2-511 but not count those licenses as part of the statutory quotas, with the Class B-7 licenses then subject to the requirements and procedures of 87-2-511; and\n(f) may condition the separated Class B-7 and Class B-11 licenses as appropriate and necessary to manage the harvest of deer, including restricting the use of a license to either mule deer or whitetail deer.\n(2) The revenue from any Class B-11 licenses that have been separated from Class B-10 licenses must be deposited in the state special revenue account to the credit of the department and not allocated pursuant to other statutory requirements generally applicable to Class B-11 licenses. The revenue from Class B-10 licenses sold without a deer tag must be allocated in the same manner as revenue from Class B-10 licenses sold with a deer tag.","path":["TITLE 87. FISH AND WILDLIFE","CHAPTER 2. FISHING, HUNTING, AND TRAPPING LICENSES","Part 5. Game Animal Licenses"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0870/chapter_0020/part_0050/section_0120/0870-0020-0050-0120.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:01:38Z","sha256":"24efdb9b1f3efe66ae48ed0dd5a4331513dc00f2330b5abe2f019e8616427cce","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/87-2-511","next":"us-mt/87-2-513"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}