AN ACT
RELATING TO HUNTING; PROVIDING FOR THE
RESERVATION OF TWO ELK LICENSES FOR PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF TWENTY-ONE WITH
LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF
THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
Section 1. A new section of Chapter 17, Article 3 NMSA
1978 is enacted to read:
"ELK LICENSES
RESERVED.--The state game commission shall reserve no more than two elk
licenses a year for sale to persons under the age of twenty-one who have been
determined by a licensed physician to have a life-threatening illness and who
have been qualified through a nonprofit wish-granting organization approved by
the commission."
HB 650
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