Section 5 AAC 92.012 - Licenses and tags(a) No hunting or trapping license is required of a resident under the age of 18. An appropriate license and big game tag are required of nonresidents, regardless of age, for hunting and trapping. No person may take waterfowl unless that person has a current, validated, federal migratory bird hunting stamp or "duck stamp" in possession as required tmder federal regulations.(b) Upon request from an employee of the department or a peace officer of the state, a person may not refuse to present for inspection any license, harvest ticket, permits, tag, or proof of completion of a course required under 5 AAC 92.003, any game, or any apparatus designed to be, and capable of being, used to take game.(c) A resident may not take a brown bear, except as provided in 5 AAC 92.015, or a musk ox, without possessing a numbered, nontransferable, appropriate tag, issued to that person. The person taking game shall, prior to leaving the kill site, affix the locking tag to the portion of the animal required to be salvaged from the field, and the person shall keep the tag affixed until the animal is prepared for storage, consumed, or exported.(d) In any hunt requiring that nonresidents be personally accompanied by a registered guide or resident second-degree-kindred relative while hunting, pursuing, or taking big game, if a nonresident hunter chooses to be accompanied by a resident second-degree-kindred relative, the resident second-degree-kindred relative must have in possession a valid big game hunting license issued in this state.(e) In any hunt where a numbered, non-transferable locking tag is required, a person taking big game shall shall, prior to leaving the kill site, affix the locking tag to the portion of the animal required to be salvaged from the field and the person shall keep the tag affixed until the animal is prepared for storage, consumed, or exported.(f) In any hunt where a nontransferable locking tag is required under AS 16.05.340 the hunter cannot attempt to take game without previously purchasing the tag. The big game tag record must also be completed prior to the attempt to take game and be in the hunter's actual possession in the field while hunting, pursuing, or attempting to take gameEff. 7/5/85, Register 95; am 8/20/89, Register 111; readopt 5/13/93, Register 126; am 7/1/2010, Register 194; am 7/1/2011, Register 198; am 7/1/2014, Register 210, July 2014; am 7/1/2016, Register 218, July 2016; am 7/1/2018, Register 226, July 2018; am 7/1/2020, Register 234, July 2020; am 6/23/2022, Register 242, July 2022Authority:AS 16.05.255
AS 16.05.258
AS 16.05.340