OAR 635-075-0026: Application Requirements

(1) A valid controlled hunt Outfitter and Guide application shall be purchased from the Department. The purchase price of the application is $30.00 (plus a $2.00 agent fee) per specific hunt number applied for regardless of the number of tags applied for. (a) No more than 50% of the available tags for a specific hunt number and species may be applied for, except in cases where only one person applies for tags and/or an odd number of tags exists in particular hunt. (b) Tags will only be issued for specific hunt units in which the Outfitter and Guide is certified and in which the Outfitter and Guide is eligible to obtain a federally issued Special Recreation Permit or provides proof of a private land lease. (c) When physically accompanying a client on an Outfitter and Guide Hunt on federal lands, Outfitter and Guides must be in possession of a valid federally issued Special Recreation/Use Permit and comply with the conditions and requirements of the permit. For purposes of this rule, “Outfitter and Guide Hunt” has the meaning provided in OAR 635-045-0002(51). (d) Applications must be complete and include such information as required which will include the six-digit State Marine Board Registration number required under ORS 704.020 or they may be disqualified from the tag allocation drawing. (e) Applications, along with the proper fees, must be received by midnight December 1, of each year, at the Department headquarters office. Applications received after the specified deadline dates shall be disqualified. (2) No outfitter or guide may receive more than 25 tags per year for any single species of big game from the December Outfitter and Guide tag drawing. Tags received in the first-come, first-serve remaining tag process are in addition to tags drawn by an outfitter and guide in the December Outfitter and Guide tag drawing.