Idaho § 36-413 - Lifetime license certificate - Fee

§ 36-413. Lifetime license certificate - Fee

(a) The fish and game commission shall issue rules and regulations to administer a lifetime license certificate system.

(b) A lifetime license certificate may be sold to any person who qualifies as a resident or is granted resident license privileges as provided in subsection (s) of section 36-202 , Idaho Code, if such person has been a resident of this state for at least five (5) years immediately preceding the date of application for the lifetime license certificate. If the applicant is under the age of five (5) years, a legal guardian of the child shall have been a resident of this state for at least five (5) years immediately preceding the date of application.

(c) A lifetime certificate may be obtained by a person one (1) day of age through one (1) year of age possessing the qualifications therein described upon payment of: twenty-five (25) times the fee prescribed for a combined hunting and fishing license in section 36-416 (a), Idaho Code, for a combined hunting and fishing license certificate; twenty-five (25) times the fee prescribed for a hunting license in section 36-416 (a), Idaho Code, for a hunting license certificate; twenty-five (25) times the fee prescribed for a fishing license in section 36-416 (a), Idaho Code, for a fishing license certificate; or twenty-five (25) times the fee prescribed for a trapping license in section 36-416 (a), Idaho Code, for a trapping license certificate.

(d) A lifetime certificate may be obtained by a person two (2) years of age through fifty (50) years of age possessing the qualifications therein described upon payment of: thirty-five (35) times the fee prescribed for a combined hunting and fishing license in section 36-416 (a), Idaho Code, for a combined hunting and fishing license certificate; thirty-five (35) times the fee prescribed for a hunting license in section 36-416 (a), Idaho Code, for a hunting license certificate; thirty-five (35) times the fee prescribed for a fishing license in section 36-416 (a), Idaho Code, for a fishing license certificate; or thirty-five (35) times the fee prescribed for a trapping license in section 36-416 (a), Idaho Code, for a trapping license certificate.

(e) A lifetime certificate may be obtained by a person fifty-one (51) years of age or older possessing the qualifications therein described upon payment of: twenty (20) times the fee prescribed for a combined hunting and fishing license in section 36-416 (a), Idaho Code, for a combined hunting and fishing license certificate; twenty (20) times the fee prescribed for a hunting license in section 36-416 (a), Idaho Code, for a hunting license certificate; twenty (20) times the fee prescribed for a fishing license in section 36-416 (a), Idaho Code, for a fishing license certificate; or twenty (20) times the fee prescribed for a trapping license in section 36-416 (a), Idaho Code, for a trapping license certificate.

(f) Holders of lifetime license certificates shall be subject to the provisions of title 36 , Idaho Code.

(g) The director shall promptly transmit to the state treasurer all moneys received by him from the sale of lifetime license certificates and the state treasurer shall deposit all such moneys in the fish and game trust fund. All such moneys shall be expended at the direction of the commission to carry out the purposes of the Idaho fish and game code or any law or regulation promulgated for the protection of wildlife, and shall be used for no other purpose.

[36-413, added 1986, ch. 52, sec. 6, p. 155; am. 1998, ch. 175, sec. 5, p. 623; am. 2023, ch. 58, sec. 1, p. 216; am. 2026, ch. 252, sec. 1, p. 1091.]