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Hunt, Trap and Fish Without a Licence at 60%

The statute lets an honorably discharged veteran certified at a service-connected disability of at least 60% hold a licence exemption to hunt, trap and fish here without charge. All three activities, one exemption, one threshold.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

The statute lets an honorably discharged veteran certified at a service-connected disability of at least 60% hold a licence exemption to hunt, trap and fish here without charge. All three activities, one exemption, one threshold.

What it's worth: A no-charge licence exemption covering hunting, trapping and fishing

  • The threshold is 60%, not 100% and not any degree — a 50% rating is outside this exemption.
  • The section covers hunting, trapping AND fishing together in one exemption.
  • What the statute issues is a licence exemption, not a licence. Stamps, permits and the annual exempt number remain their own administrative steps.
  • The certification comes from the Veterans Administration, in a written statement of the discharge and the service-connected disability.

Who is entitled to it

  • Your rating meets the threshold the section sets.
  • Your discharge is within the range the section uses.
  • Your home is in this state.

Not sure whether that describes you?

Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.

How to claim it

  1. 1Get a written statement from the Veterans Administration certifying the honorable discharge and a service-connected disability of at least 60% — that certification is what the section actually turns on.
  2. 2File the division’s exempt application once, with the certification attached.
  3. 3Renew the annual exempt number even though the exemption itself is permanent. The exemption is from the licence fee; it is not an exemption from being counted.
  4. 4Complete any hunter safety or turkey education requirement that applies to you. An exemption from paying is not an exemption from qualifying.
  5. 5Check whether the stamp or permit you need is inside the exemption before you go — the section exempts the licence, and stamps and permits are priced separately elsewhere in the chapter.
Form
Veterans with Disabilities Exempt Application, filed once
File with
Division of Fish and Wildlife, Recreational Licensing
Documents you will need
va benefit summary letter
Annual recertification
The office asks you to confirm each year.
CorrectionThe gate is 60%. That is an unusual figure — most states in this corpus set a recreation concession at 50%, at 100%, or at any compensable degree — and a veteran at 50% who assumes the ordinary pattern will be turned away.
Worth knowingThe subsection does not itself state a residency period. Material outside the code describes a one-year residency condition; the text read here does not carry one, so ask the division which it applies before relying on either.
Worth knowingTrapping is inside the exemption. That is worth knowing because trapping is usually licensed and priced on its own, separately from hunting.

Sources

Why only one source type: The section states the threshold, the discharge condition, the three covered activities and the no-charge issuance in its own text. The division’s exempt application is published only as a PDF whose text could not be extracted this session, so the administrative detail on it is not quoted here.

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