R657-43-5. Qualifications for Limited Entry Permits

  (1) The Director, upon approval of the Wildlife Board, may establish a number of bull elk, buck deer and buck pronghorn limited entry permits to be offered to an eligible landowner association.

  (2) Except as provided in R657-43-10(1)(b), limited entry landowner permits are available for taking buck deer, bull elk or buck pronghorn, and may only be used on designated limited entry units.

  (3) Only private lands that do not qualify for Cooperative Wildlife Management Units will be considered for limited entry landowner permits. Public or state lands are not eligible.

  (4) Only private lands that qualify as eligible property will be considered for limited entry landowner permits.

  (5) Applications for limited entry landowner permits will be received from landowner associations only.

  (6) Only one landowner association, per species, may be formed for each limited entry unit as follows:

  (a) A landowner association may be formed only if a simple majority of landowners, representing 51 percent of the eligible private lands within the herd unit, enter into a written agreement to form the association.

  (b) The association may not unreasonably restrict membership to other qualified landowners in the unit.

  (c) Each landowner association must elect a chairperson to represent the landowner association.

  (d) The landowner association chairperson shall act as liaison with the division and the Wildlife Board.

  (e) A landowner or landowner association may not restrict legal established passage through private land to access public lands for the purpose of hunting.