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Publications iconKansas Register

Volume 42 - Issue 50 - December 14, 2023

State of Kansas

Department of Wildlife and Parks

Permanent Administrative Regulation

Article 2.—FEES, REGISTRATIONS AND OTHER CHARGES

115-2-1. Amount of fees. The following fees and discounts shall be in effect for the following licenses, permits, and other issues of the department: (a) Hunting licenses and permits.

  • Resident hunting license (valid for one year from date of purchase)
$25.00
  • Resident hunting license (valid for five years from date of purchase)
100.00
  • Resident senior hunting license (valid for one year from date of purchase, 65 years of age through 74 years of age)
12.50
  • Resident youth hunting license (one-time purchase, valid from 16 years of age through 20 years of age, expiring at the end of that calendar year)
40.00
  • Nonresident hunting license (valid for one year from date of purchase)
125.00
  • Nonresident junior hunting license (under 16 years of age)
40.00
Resident big game hunting permit:
  • General resident: either-sex elk permit
300.00
  • General resident: antlerless-only elk permit
150.00
  • General resident youth (under 16 years of age): either-sex elk permit
125.00
  • General resident youth (under 16 years of age): antlerless-only elk permit
50.00
  • Landowner/tenant: either-sex elk permit
150.00
  • Landowner/tenant: antlerless-only elk permit
75.00
  • Hunt-on-your-own-land: either-sex elk permit
150.00
  • Hunt-on-your-own-land: antlerless-only elk permit
75.00
  • General resident: deer permit
40.00
  • General resident youth (under 16 years of age): deer permit
10.00
  • General resident: antlerless-only deer permit
20.00
  • General resident youth (under 16 years of age): antlerless-only deer permit
7.50
  • Landowner/tenant: deer permit
20.00
  • Hunt-on-your-own-land: deer permit
20.00
  • Special hunt-on-your-own-land: deer permit
40.00
  • General resident: antelope permit
50.00
  • General resident youth (under 16 years of age): antelope permit
10.00
  • Landowner/tenant: antelope permit
25.00
  • Antelope preference point service charge
10.00
  • Any-deer preference point service charge
10.00
  • Application fee for elk permit
10.00
Wild turkey permit:
  • General resident: turkey permit (1-bird limit)
25.00
  • General resident youth (under 16 years of age): turkey permit (1-bird limit)
5.00
  • Resident landowner/tenant: turkey permit (1-bird limit)
12.50
  • Nonresident: fall turkey permit (1-bird limit)
50.00
  • Nonresident tenant: fall turkey permit (1-bird limit)
25.00
  • Nonresident: spring turkey permit (1-bird limit)
75.00
  • Nonresident tenant: spring turkey permit (1-bird limit)
30.00
  • Nonresident youth (under 16 years of age): turkey permit (1-bird limit)
10.00
  • Resident: turkey preference point service charge
5.00
  • Nonresident: turkey permit application fee
10.00
Wild turkey game tag:
  • Resident: turkey game tag (1-bird limit)
15.00
  • Resident youth (under 16 years of age): turkey game tag (1-bird limit)
5.00
  • Nonresident: turkey game tag (1-bird limit)
30.00
  • Nonresident youth (under 16 years of age): turkey game tag (1-bird limit)
10.00
Spring wild turkey permit and game tag combination (2-bird limit, must be purchased before April 1 of year of use):
  • General resident: turkey permit and game tag combination (2-bird limit)
35.00
  • General resident youth (under 16 years of age): turkey permit and game tag combination (2-bird limit)
10.00
  • Resident landowner/tenant: turkey permit and game tag combination (2-bird limit)
17.50
  • Nonresident: turkey permit and game tag combination (2-bird limit)
85.00
  • Nonresident tenant: turkey permit and game tag combination (2-bird limit)
42.50
  • Nonresident youth (under 16 years of age): turkey permit and game tag combination (2-bird limit)
20.00
Nonresident big game hunting permit:
  • Nonresident hunt-on-your-own-land: deer permit
85.00
  • Nonresident tenant: deer permit
85.00
  • Nonresident: deer permit (antlered deer)
400.00
  • Nonresident youth (under 16 years of age): deer permit (antlered deer)
75.00
  • Nonresident: deer permit (antlerless only)
50.00
  • Nonresident: combination 2-deer permit (antlered deer and antlerless white-tailed deer)
450.00
  • Nonresident youth (under 16 years of age): combination 2-deer permit (antlered deer and antlerless white-tailed deer)
90.00
  • Nonresident: antelope permit (archery only)
300.00
  • Nonresident tenant: antelope permit
85.00
  • Nonresident youth (under 16 years of age): antelope (archery only)
100.00
  • Nonresident tenant: either-sex elk permit
300.00
  • Nonresident tenant: antlerless-only elk permit
150.00
  • Nonresident: deer permit application fee
25.00
  • Nonresident: mule deer stamp
150.00
  • Field trial permit: game birds
20.00
  • Lifetime hunting license
500.00
  • or eight quarterly installment payments of
67.50
  • Migratory waterfowl habitat stamp
8.00
  • Sandhill crane hunting permit: validation fee
5.00
  • Disabled person hunt-from-a-vehicle permit
0

(b) Fishing licenses and permits.

  • Resident fishing license (valid for one year from date of purchase)
25.00
  • Resident fishing license (valid for five years from date of purchase)
100.00
  • Resident senior fishing license (valid for one year from date of purchase, 65 years of age through 74 years of age)
12.50
  • Resident youth fishing license (one-time purchase, valid from 16 years of age through 20 years of age, expiring at the end of that calendar year)
40.00
  • Nonresident fishing license (valid for one year from date of purchase)
75.00
  • Resident calendar day fishing license
3.50
  • Nonresident calendar day fishing license
10.00
  • Three-pole permit (valid for one year from date of purchase)
6.00
  • Tournament bass pass (valid for one year from date of purchase)
12.00
  • Paddlefish permit (six carcass tags)
10.00
  • Paddlefish permit youth (under 16 years of age) (six carcass tags)
5.00
  • Hand fishing permit
25.00
  • Lifetime fishing license
500.00
  • or eight quarterly installment payments of
67.50
  • Five-day nonresident fishing license
25.00
  • Institutional group fishing license
100.00
  • Special nonprofit group fishing license
50.00
  • Trout permit (valid for one year from date of purchase)
12.00
  • Youth trout permit (under 16 years of age, valid for one year from date of purchase)
4.50

(c) Combination hunting and fishing licenses and permits.

  • Resident combination hunting and fishing license (valid for one year from date of purchase)
45.00
  • Resident combination hunting and fishing license (valid for five years from date of purchase)
180.00
  • Resident senior combination hunting and fishing license (valid for one year from date of purchase, 65 years of age through 74 years of age)
22.50
  • Resident combination youth hunting and fishing license (one-time purchase, valid from 16 years of age through 20 years of age, expiring at the end of that calendar year)
70.00
  • Resident lifetime combination hunting and fishing license
960.00
  • or eight quarterly installment payments of
130.00
  • Resident senior lifetime combination hunting and fishing license (one-time purchase, valid 65 years of age and older)
40.00
Resident Kansas kids lifetime combination hunting and fishing license:
  • 5 years of age or younger
300.00
  • 6 through 7 years of age
500.00
  • Nonresident combination hunting and fishing license (valid for one year from date of purchase)
190.00

(d) Furharvester licenses.

  • Resident furharvester license (valid for one year from date of purchase)
25.00
  • Resident junior furharvester license (valid for one year from date of purchase)
12.50
  • Lifetime furharvester license
500.00
  • or eight quarterly installment payments of
67.50
  • Nonresident furharvester license (valid for one year from date of purchase)
250.00
  • Nonresident bobcat permit (1-bobcat limit per permit)
100.00
  • Resident fur dealer license
100.00
  • Nonresident fur dealer license
400.00
  • Field trial permit: furbearing animals
20.00

(e) Commercial licenses and permits.

  • Controlled shooting area hunting license (valid for one year from date of purchase)
25.00
  • Resident mussel fishing license
75.00
  • Nonresident mussel fishing license
1,000.00
  • Mussel dealer permit
200.00
  • Missouri river fishing permit
25.00
  • Game breeder permit
10.00
  • Controlled shooting area operator license
200.00
  • Commercial dog training permit
20.00
  • Commercial fish bait permit (three-year permit)
50.00
  • Commercial prairie rattlesnake harvest permit (without a valid Kansas hunting license)
20.00
  • Commercial prairie rattlesnake harvest permit (with a valid Kansas hunting license or exempt from this license requirement)
5.00
  • Commercial prairie rattlesnake dealer permit
50.00
  • Prairie rattlesnake round-up event permit
25.00

(f) Collection, scientific, importation, rehabilitation, and damage-control permits.

  • Scientific, educational, or exhibition permit
10.00
  • Raptor propagation permit
0
  • Rehabilitation permit
0
  • Wildlife damage-control permit
0
  • Wildlife importation permit
10.00
  • Threatened or endangered species: special permits
0

(g) Falconry.

  • Apprentice permit
75.00
  • General permit
75.00
  • Master permit
75.00
  • Testing fee
50.00

(h) Miscellaneous fees.

  • Duplicate license, permit, stamp, and other issues of the department
0
  • Special departmental services, materials, or supplies
At cost
Vendor bond
  • For bond amounts of $5,000.00 and less
50.00
  • For bond amounts of more than $5,000.00
50.00
plus $6.00 per additional $1,000.00 coverage or any fraction thereof.

(i) Discounts.

  • Discount for five or more licenses, permits, stamps, or other issues of the department purchased by an individual at the same time
five percent of the total price

(Authorized by K.S.A. 32-807, as amended by L. 2023, ch. 7, sec. 28, and K.S.A. 32-988, as amended by L. 2023, ch. 43, sec. 5; implementing K.S.A. 32-807, as amended by L. 2023, ch. 7, sec. 28; K.S.A. 32-937; K.S.A. 32-988, as amended by L. 2023, ch. 43, sec. 5; K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 32-9,101; and L. 2023, ch. 43, sec. 1; effective Dec. 4, 1989; amended Sept. 10, 1990; amended Jan. 1, 1991; amended June 8, 1992; amended Oct. 12, 1992; amended April 11, 1994; amended Aug. 29, 1994; amended June 5, 1995; amended Aug. 21, 1995; amended Feb. 28, 1997; amended July 30, 1999; amended Jan. 2, 2002; amended Jan. 1, 2003; amended Jan. 1, 2004; amended Feb. 18, 2005; amended Jan. 1, 2006; amended May 1, 2006; amended Jan. 1, 2007; amended Jan. 1, 2008; amended Jan. 1, 2009; amended Jan. 1, 2010; amended Aug. 1, 2010; amended Jan. 1, 2011; amended Jan. 1, 2013; amended April 19, 2013; amended Nov. 15, 2013; amended Jan. 1, 2015; amended Jan. 1, 2016; amended Jan. 1, 2018; amended April 26, 2019; amended Sept. 20, 2019; amended Jan. 1, 2021; amended Oct. 7, 2022; amended Dec. 29, 2023.)

Brad Loveless
Secretary
Department of Wildlife and Parks

Doc. No. 051722