Ohio § 1533.15

§ 1533.15.

Except as provided by division rule, the clerks and other agents authorized to issue

hunting and fishing licenses, deer and wild turkey permits, and fur taker permits

shall issue them in consecutive order of their numbers as stamped on the upper left

corner of each license or permit with the date and exact time of day of issuance plainly

written thereon and shall keep a record of the licenses and permits issued, together

with the names and addresses of the persons to whom the licenses and permits were

issued.  No license or permit sold in conformity with sections 1533.10 , 1533.11 , 1533.111 , and 1533.32 of the Revised Code shall show any date and hour of issuance prior to the actual date and hour when the

license or permit was issued to the applicant, and any violation of this requirement

is an offense by both the purchaser of the falsely dated license or permit and the

clerk or agent who issued it.  A falsely dated license or permit immediately is void, and in any hearing before

any court having jurisdiction, it shall be construed that no license or permit was

issued. The clerks and other agents shall transmit with their reports to the director of natural

resources, or another person authorized to receive them, all the moneys received as

license and permit fees and may include the amounts paid to the clerks and other agents

as their fees. Moneys received as fees under sections 1533.10 and 1533.111 of the Revised Code shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the wildlife fund, which shall

be exclusively for the use of the department of natural resources in the education

of hunters and trappers, for the purchase, management, preservation, propagation,

protection, and stocking of wild birds and wild quadrupeds, for establishing and purchasing

or otherwise acquiring title to lands for game preservation, propagation, and protection,

and for public hunting grounds under rules to be adopted by the chief of the division

of wildlife.  The chief may employ on such lands one or more game management agents and wildlife

officers at such salary and with such duties as the chief prescribes for improving

habitat for wild birds and wild quadrupeds and for all phases of game management,

propagation, and protection, including the necessary biological investigations, for

printing summarized game laws and the division of wildlife lawbook, and for printing

such educational leaflets, pamphlets, and books and promoting such educational, survey,

and research activities pertaining to the management, preservation, propagation, and

protection of wild animals as are approved by the chief and as provided in this chapter

and Chapter 1531. of the Revised Code. The department shall not spend more than thirty-five per cent of this fund for administration

and enforcement. No moneys derived from hunting licenses, deer or wild turkey permits, and fur taker

permits shall be spent for other than hunting and trapping purposes, as defined in

this section and sections 1533.11 and 1533.111 of the Revised Code . The wildlife fund shall be reimbursed, as provided in this section, for the cost of

hunting and fishing licenses, permits, and stamps required to be issued free of charge

pursuant to rules adopted under division (B) of section 1533.12 of the Revised Code .  The chief shall compile data on the number, type, and amount of fees that would

have been collected for the licenses, permits, and stamps if they were not issued

free of charge.  The chief shall certify the amount of foregone revenue for the previous fiscal year

for the free licenses, permits, and stamps to the director of budget and management.  Beginning with the amount for fiscal year 1992, the director shall transfer the

lesser of one million dollars per year or the amount so certified from the general

revenue fund to the wildlife fund, by intrastate transfer voucher. No person, on any lands acquired and set aside for wild animal management, preservation,

propagation, and protection or public hunting grounds having plainly marked boundaries,

or with knowledge that such lands are so acquired and set aside, shall take, hunt

or trap, kill, or pursue any wild animal on such lands, except as provided by law

or division rules.  No person shall enter upon such lands or lands held by the state for purposes of

reforestation with intent to cut growing timber on any such lands or otherwise commit

waste thereon.  Hunting may be engaged in on lands set aside for purposes of reforestation as provided

by division rules and approved by the division of forestry.