(a) Any person with a disability as defined by K.S.A. 8-1,124, and amendments thereto, may apply to the secretary on forms provided by the department for a permit to hunt from a vehicle. Each applicant shall provide the following information:
- (1) Name of applicant;
- (2) address;
- (3) nature of the disability;
- (4) a report signed by an authority as specified in K.S.A. 8-1,125 and amendments thereto, on forms provided by the department, that describes the disability and specifies the disability duration; and
- (5) other information as required by the secretary.
(b) For any person with a disability to whom an individual identification card has been issued, as defined in and under the authority of K.S.A. 8-1,125 and amendments thereto, the individual identification card shall serve as a permit to hunt from a vehicle. An individual identification card shall not be used as a permit to hunt from a vehicle under any of the following conditions:
- (1) The individual identification card is no longer valid.
- (2) The individual identification card was obtained through false pretenses.
- (3) The disability for which the individual identification card was issued no longer exists.
- (c) The permittee shall be in possession of the permit while hunting.
- (d) The permit shall be valid statewide and only for the person to whom the permit was issued.
- (e) The permit shall be valid for the time period specified in the permit as determined by the permanent or temporary nature of the disability.
- (f) The holder of a permit to hunt from a vehicle may shoot from a nonmoving vehicle, but only in compliance with applicable state and federal laws and regulations.
(g) A permit for hunting from a vehicle may not be issued or may be revoked by the secretary for any of the following reasons:
- (1) The disability does not meet the qualifications for the permit.
- (2) The application is incomplete or contains false information.
- (3) The disability under which the permit was issued no longer exists. If the secretary revokes a person's permit for any of the above reasons, then that person shall not use an individual identification card as a permit to hunt from a vehicle.
- (h) Any person may assist the holder of a permit to hunt from a vehicle during the permit holder's hunting activity. A person assisting a holder of this permit shall not perform the actual shooting of wildlife for the permit holder.
(Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 32-931; effective Oct. 30, 1989; amended Nov. 15, 1993; amended Oct. 1, 1999.)