(a) The commissioner may establish, by regulations adopted in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, standards for the management of salmon, trout and turkey which shall include provision for the issuance of permits, tags or stamps. The commissioner may charge a fee for a permit, tag or stamp as follows: Not more than nineteen dollars for turkey; not more than ten dollars for trout and not more than twenty-eight dollars for salmon. No person shall be issued a permit, tag or stamp for turkey without first obtaining a license to hunt and no person shall be issued a permit, tag or stamp for salmon or trout without first obtaining a license to fish. Notwithstanding any provision of any regulation to the contrary, the commissioner may charge a fee of nineteen dollars for the issuance of a permit to hunt wild turkey on state-owned or private land during the fall season.

(b) Such permits, tags or stamps shall be issued to qualified applicants by any town clerk. Application for such permits, tags or stamps shall be on such form and require of the applicant such information as the commissioner may prescribe. The commissioner may adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 authorizing a town clerk to retain part of any fee paid for a permit, tag or stamp issued by such town clerk pursuant to this section, provided the amount retained shall not be less than fifty cents.

(P.A. 82-91, S. 30, 38; P.A. 85-403, S. 3, 4; P.A. 89-351, S. 1, 11; Nov. Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3, S. 4, 21; P.A. 97-250, S. 10; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-1, S. 92; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 452; P.A. 10-3, S. 42; P.A. 16-27, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 85-403 added Subsec. (b) authorizing town clerks to issue permits, tags or stamps; P.A. 89-351 increased maximum fee for permit, tag or stamp for pheasant from $5 to $10; Nov. Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3 amended Subsec. (a) to provide for the issuance of a permit to hunt wild turkey and for a fee for such permit of $10; P.A. 97-250 amended Subsec. (a) to provide for regulations to manage migratory birds and for a fee for a permit, stamp or tag for taking of migratory birds and amended Subsec. (b) to authorize the commissioner to require information from an applicant for permits, stamps or tags under this section; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-1 amended Subsec. (a) to increase permit, tag or stamp fee for turkey from $10 to $14, fee for migratory game birds from $2 to $3, fee for pheasant from $10 to $14, fee for salmon from $20 to $28 and fee for wild turkey during fall season from $10 to $14, effective January 1, 2003; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 amended Subsec. (a) by increasing fees; P.A. 10-3 amended Subsec. (a) by reducing fees for turkey, migratory game birds and salmon, effective April 14, 2010; P.A. 16-27 amended Subsec. (a) to delete references to migratory game birds and pheasants, add references to trout and add provision re $10 fee for trout stamp, permit or tag, effective July 1, 2016.