The commissioner, upon written application and the payment of a fee of eleven dollars, shall issue to any person licensed to hunt, to hunt and trap or fish, or the combination thereof, a duplicate license when he is satisfied that the original license of such person has been lost, destroyed or mutilated beyond recognition. No such application form shall contain any material false statement. All such application forms shall have printed thereon, “I declare under the penalties of false statement that the statements herein made by me are true and correct.” Any person who makes any material false statement on such application form shall be guilty of false statement and shall be subject to the penalties provided for false statement and such offense shall be deemed to have been committed in the town of residence of the applicant, except that in the case of applications received from nonresidents such offense shall be deemed to have been committed in the town in which such application is presented or received for processing. The town clerk certifying such application form shall receive from the total fee herein specified the sum of one dollar.
(1949 Rev., S. 4877; 1957, P.A. 274; 1961, P.A. 138; 1963, P.A. 329, S. 6; 1967, P.A. 244, S. 5; 1971, P.A. 871, S. 104; 872, S. 234; P.A. 85-100, S. 1, 5; Nov. Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3, S. 12, 21; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-1, S. 85; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 445; P.A. 10-3, S. 36.)
History: 1961 act increased fee for duplicate license from $0.25 to $1.35 and specified that town clerk is to receive $0.35 of that amount; 1963 act added reference to combination licenses; 1967 act added reference to separate license for hunting only; 1971 acts substituted false statement and its applicable penalties for perjury and its applicable penalties and replaced references to board of fisheries and game with references to environmental protection commissioner; P.A. 85-100 increased the amount of the license fee from $1.35 to $3.00, and increased the amount that can be retained by the town clerk from $0.35 to $1.00; Nov. Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3 increased the fee for duplicate licenses issued from $3.00 to $5.00; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-1 increased fee from $5.00 to $7.00, effective January 1, 2003; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 increased fee from $7 to $15; P.A. 10-3 reduced fee from $15 to $11, effective April 14, 2010.