37-420 Hunting or fishing permit; veterans; exempt from payment of fees, when; special permits; limitations. - Nebraska Statutes

37-420. Hunting or fishing permit; veterans; exempt from payment of fees, when; special permits; limitations.(1) Any veteran who is a legal resident of the State of Nebraska and who was discharged or separated with a characterization of honorable or general (under honorable conditions) shall be exempt from the payment of any fees provided by the laws of the State of Nebraska and established by the commission pursuant to section 37-327 for the privilege of fishing or hunting in Nebraska if the veteran:(a) Is rated by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs as fifty percent or more disabled as a result of service in the armed forces of the United States; or(b) Is receiving a pension from the department as a result of total and permanent disability, which disability was not incurred in the line of duty in the military service.(2) The exemption described in subsection (1) of this section shall not extend to the privilege of commercial fishing, trapping of fur-bearing animals, or hunting for deer, antelope, wild turkey, or any other species of fish and game on which the open season is limited to a restricted number of permits or to special permits for a restricted area or game management unit.(3) If disabled persons are unable by reason of physical infirmities to hunt and fish in the normal manner, the commission may issue special permits without cost to those persons to hunt and fish from a vehicle, but such permits shall not authorize any person to shoot from any public highway.(4) All permits issued without the payment of any fees pursuant to this section shall be perpetual and become void only upon termination of eligibility as provided in this section.(5) The commission may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations necessary to carry out this section.(6) Permits issued under subdivision (3) of this section as it existed prior to January 1, 2006, shall not expire as provided in section 37-421. SourceLaws 1957, c. 143, § 1, p. 479; Laws 1959, c. 155, § 1, p. 582; Laws 1965, c. 198, § 1, p. 600; Laws 1967, c. 216, § 7, p. 583; Laws 1972, LB 1204, § 1; Laws 1973, LB 138, § 1; Laws 1979, LB 434, § 2; Laws 1991, LB 2, § 5; Laws 1993, LB 235, § 11; R.S.1943, (1993), § 37-214.03; Laws 1998, LB 922, § 130; Laws 2005, LB 54, § 6; Laws 2005, LB 162, § 6; Laws 2005, LB 227, § 2.