Section 41-6-12 - Resident and nonresident licenses and preference points--Minimum age.
41-6-12. Resident and nonresident licenses and preference points--Minimum age. Any person who is a resident of this state, as defined by this title, qualifies as resident for securing any resident hunting or fishing license or preference points. All other persons shall secure the applicable nonresident hunting and fishing licenses or preference points. No person under the age of twelve years may be granted any hunting license or preference point. However, any person who is eleven years of age and who will become twelve years of age during the period September first through December thirty-first, inclusive, may be granted any hunting license or preference point and be allowed to hunt beginning September first.
Source: SDC 1939, § 25.0301 as added by SL 1959, ch 109, § 1; SL 1961, ch 116, § 1; SL 1968, ch 99, § 1; SL 1979, ch 278, § 3; SL 1990, ch 332, § 4; SL 1992, ch 296, § 1; SL 1998, ch 252, § 9; SL 2007, ch 241, § 3.