DNR Announces Bear and Elk Hunting Opportunity for Youth and Hunters with an Advanced Illness

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[font "arial, helvetica, sans-serif"][#00e010]DNR Announces Bear and Elk Hunting Opportunity for Youth and Hunters with an Advanced Illness [/#00e010][/font]
[font "arial, helvetica, sans-serif"][#00e010]Contact: [/#00e010][/font] [font "arial, helvetica, sans-serif"][black]Lisa Winters 517-373-3904 [/black][/font]
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[font "arial, helvetica, sans-serif"][black]June 29, 2006
The Department of Natural Resources reminds bear and elk license lottery applicants that they have the opportunity to transfer their drawing success to a qualified youth or adult applicant with an advanced illness.
"This is a great opportunity for hunters to help a youth experience what may be his or her first hunt, or to be compassionate and offer their hunting opportunity to someone who may never have another chance to hunt," said Bill Moritz, DNR Wildlife Division chief.
In 2005, 73 successful applicants donated their drawing success. However, several of those licenses were left unfilled because the pool of eligible applicants was too small. The DNR recommends that hunters who are willing to donate their drawing success do so as early as possible. Eligible participants with flexible schedules may have greater opportunity to accept a donated hunt.
Eligible applicants who wish to receive another's drawing success must register online at [url "http://www.michigan.gov/dnr"][#000000]www.michigan.gov/dnr[/#000000][/url] by July 15. Those eligible to receive a transfer of drawing success include unsuccessful youth applicants (ages 12-16 for bear and 14-16 for elk), and unsuccessful applicants of legal hunting age with an advanced illness. Advanced illness is a specific medical condition and eligibility under this provision requires a written statement of advanced illness authorized by a physician.
Successful applicants who wish to transfer or donate their drawing success should contact the DNR at 517-373-3904.
The DNR is committed to the conservation, protection, management, use and enjoyment of the state's natural resources
for current and future generations.
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[size 2]Applicants who are successful in the license lottery may transfer their drawing success to any qualified youth, ages 14–16 for elk and 12-16 for bear, or to any qualified person of legal hunting age with an advanced illness.* Advanced illness is a specific medical condition, and eligibility under this provision requires a written statement of advanced illness authorized by a physician.[/size] [ul] [li]
[size 2]Successful applicants who wish to transfer (donate) their drawing success should call 517-373-3904. Those who know the name of their qualified recipient will receive instructions on how to complete the transfer. [/size] [li]
[size 2]Youth and persons with an advanced illness must have applied during the current application period to qualify to receive someone’s drawing success. [/size] [li]
[size 2]Those who are successful in the drawing are not eligible to receive a transfer. [/size] [li]
[size 2]Those who receive a transfer of another person’s drawing success for an elk license will be subject to the ineligibility period. [/size] [li]
[size 2]Those who receive a transfer of another person’s drawing success for a bear license will retain their own preference points. [/size] [li]
[size 2]Chances for an elk license will return to zero for persons who transfer their drawing success and for the person who receives the transfer. [/size] [li]
[size 2]It is unlawful to transfer drawing success for a fee, or transfer drawing success and then guide that person for a fee. [/size] [li]
[url "https://secure1.state.mi.us/licreg/"][size 2]Eligible applicants who wish to receive another’s drawing success must register online[/size][/url][size 2] by July 15. [/size][/li][/ul]
[size 2]* Advanced illness is defined by the Public Health Code, Act 368 of 1978 [MCL 333.5653]. [url "http://www.legislature.mi.gov/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=mcl-333-5653"]Click here for more information[/url][/size]
[size 2][/size] [size 2]PUBLIC HEALTH CODE (EXCERPT)
Act 368 of 1978 [/size]


[size 2]333.5653 Definitions. [/size]
[size 2]Sec. 5653.[/size]
[size 2](1) As used in this part:[/size]
[size 2](a) "Advanced illness", except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, means a medical or surgical condition with significant functional impairment that is not reversible by curative therapies and that is anticipated to progress toward death despite attempts at curative therapies or modulation, the time course of which may or may not be determinable through reasonable medical prognostication. For purposes of section 5655(b) only, "advanced illness" has the same general meaning as "terminal illness" has in the medical community.[/size]
[size 2](b) "Health facility" means a health facility or agency licensed under article 17.[/size]
[size 2]© "Hospice" means that term as defined in section 20106.[/size]
[size 2](d) "Medical treatment" means a treatment including, but not limited to, palliative care treatment, or a procedure, medication, surgery, a diagnostic test, or a hospice plan of care that may be ordered, provided, or withheld or withdrawn by a health professional or a health facility under generally accepted standards of medical practice and that is not prohibited by law.[/size]
[size 2](e) "Patient" means an individual who is under the care of a physician.[/size]
[size 2](f) "Patient advocate" means that term as described and used in sections 5506 to 5515 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700.5506 to 700.5515.[/size]
[size 2](g) "Patient surrogate" means the parent or legal guardian of a patient who is a minor or a member of the immediate family, the next of kin, or the legal guardian of a patient who has a condition other than minority that prevents the patient from giving consent to medical treatment.[/size]
[size 2](h) "Physician" means that term as defined in section 17001 or 17501.[/size]
[size 2](2) Article 1 contains general definitions and principles of construction applicable to all articles in this code.[/size]
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[size 2]History: Add. 1996, Act 594, Eff. Mar. 31, 1997 ;-- Am. 2000, Act 58, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 ;-- Am. 2001, Act 239, Imd. Eff. Jan. 8, 2002 ;-- Am. 2004, Act 551, Imd. Eff. Jan. 3, 2005
Popular Name: Act 368[/size]

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