(1) Fees for outfitters, operations plan, guide, or professional guides shall be as set forth below. The following fees are nonrefundable.
(a) New outfitter application and license. $1300
This fee includes the following costs, but does not include fees
related to operations plan.
(i) application processing 350
(ii) examination 150
(iii) investigation 400
(iv) license 400
(b) Application for amendment to outfitter license. 450
This fee includes the following costs:
(i) application processing 300
(ii) examination 150
(c) Renewal of outfitter license
(i) outfitter annual license 375
(ii) outfitter inactive status 200
(d) New operations plan
(i) review and processing 125
(ii) equipment inspection 375
(e) Fee per hunting client served per year 2
(f) Annual fee for each additional hunting 5000
camp meeting the criteria in 37-47-318, MCA
(g) Amendments to operations plan 2000
proposing an increase in net client hunter use (NCHU)
(h) Fee for each new client added to 500
operations plan by NCHU expansion request
(i) Guide or professional guide license effective until
December 31, 2008
(i) original guide license 100
(ii) temporary guide license 100
(j) Guide or professional guide license effective January 1, 2009
(i) guide license 150
(ii) emergency guide license 150
(k) Fee for transfer of NCHU from each 50
outfitter involved in the transfer
(l) Fee for replacement watercraft identification 5
(m) Fee for audit of river-use days 50
(n) Additional standardized fees are specified in ARM 24.101.403.
(2) The initial $5000 fee for each additional hunting camp approved for inclusion in the outfitter's operations plan pursuant to 37-47-318, MCA must be paid before the camp is used and in no event later than ten business days after written notice to the outfitter of the board's approval. Thereafter the annual fee is due on December 31. Inclusion of the camp in the outfitter's approved operations plan and the outfitter's authority to use the camp terminate automatically on December 31 of each year unless renewed for the following year by payment of the $5000 annual fee by that date.