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Licenses, Permits & Stamps
License Information
All persons hunting or trapping must
be properly licensed . It is unlawful
for any person age 10 or older to hunt
without a hunting license . It is unlawful
for any person age 12 or older to trap
without a trapping license . See page 1 for
license and permit fees . See page 12 for
youth license information . All hunters and
trappers must openly display their license
and any applicable deer, turkey or bear
permit in the middle of the back on their
outer clothing and must show their license
to any law enforcement officer or any person
requesting to see it .
Licenses, permits and stamps may
be purchased using Fish and Wildlife’s
Internet sales site (www .WildlifeLicense .
com/NJ/) or from approved license agents
listed on page 20 .
Do NOT heat laminate the durable
license or permit . High temperature will
destroy these waterproof documents .
Child Support Certifications
The “Child Support Program
Improvement Act” requires Fish and
Wildlife to collect and maintain Social
Security Numbers and a child support
obligation certification from license applicants
and to make the collection of this
Deer Permits are valid for the 2008–2009 hunting season.
New Jersey sporting licenses are valid for the calendar year.
New applicant disabled veterans may obtain their hunting and
fishing licenses and stamps at the following Fish and Wildlife
field offices:
Pequest Trout Hatchery/Natural Resource Ed. Ctr, Oxford,
Warren Co., (909) 637-4125; Central Region Office, Upper
Freehold Twp., Monmouth Co., (609) 259-2132; and Southern
Region Office, Sicklerville, Camden Co., (856) 629-0090.
All licenses, stamps and permits for which the veteran is
eligible will be free of charge. This does not give preferential
treatment in any lottery.
information part of the license application .
To comply, Fish and Wildlife, working
with the Division of Law in the Office
of the Attorney General, created the
Supplemental License Application available
on the Fish and Wildlife Web site at
www .NJFishandWildlfe .com/child_
support_info .htm or at license agents .
The online child support application
allows an individual to be certified from
the privacy of their home . Once completed
- either over the Internet or at a license
agent - the certification remains valid for
the calendar year in which the certification
was completed .
Farmer License Exemption
A farmer and the immediate members
of the family who also reside on the
farm may hunt, trap and fish on the farm
without being licensed or possessing a
valid rifle permit . For details, see Farmer
Hunting and Permit Information, page 29 .
Hunter and Trapper Education
Requirements
New Jersey requires everyone applying
to hunt with a shotgun, rifle or bow must
show a previous resident license of the
appropriate type from this or any state, or
a course completion card from the appropriate
hunter education course .
The New Jersey Hunter Education
Program is offered as a home study, videobased
course . Students may obtain course
materials at most license agents and Fish
and Wildlife field offices . After completing
an extensive homework assignment, the
student will choose from a list of testing
facilities and dates to complete their
hunter education course . For more Hunter
Education Program details, including
course material availability, facility
locations, dates, and course registration, go
to Fish and Wildlife’s Web site at www .
NJFishandWildlife .com/hunted .htm or call
(877) 2HUNTNJ .
Trapper education courses are offered
four times throughout the state in the
months of September and October . To
enroll in a trapper education course, go
to the Fish and Wildlife Web site or call
(877) 2HUNTNJ to register .
Lost Licenses
A license, permit or stamp can be
replaced at any license agent or at Fish and
Wildlife’s Internet license sales site,
www .WildlifeLicense .com/NJ/ . Licenses
and permits which contain transportation
tags can be duplicated at license agents or
on the Internet sales site only one time .
All subsequent duplicates of these license S
Disabled Veteran Licenses, Stamps and Permits
Free hunting and fishing licenses, stamps and permits are available for resident disabled veterans
For the purposes of this program, legislation defines
Disabled Veteran Applicants:
disabled veterans as “…any resident of New Jersey who
has been honorably discharged or released under honorable
1. Documentation of current benefits for a service-connected
circumstances from active service from any branch of the
disability and proof of honorable discharge (such as a copy
Armed Forces of the United States and who has been
of your DD-214, VA card or monthly check stub) must be
declared by the United States Department of Veteran Affairs, presented to obtain a free disabled veteran license.
or its successor, to have a service-connected disability of any
degree ….”
2. Applicant must provide a hunter education course (archery,
shotgun or rifle) certificate applicable to the license for which
he or she is applying or a previously issued resident archery
or firearm license or rifle permit. Resident licenses from other
states issued to hunters prior to establishing residency in New
Jersey will be accepted if the license indicates the sporting
arm for which it was valid. Non-resident licenses from other
states are not acceptable.
3. To obtain the free disabled veteran deer/turkey permits one
must first have a free disabled veteran hunting license.
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