{"id":10993,"date":"2016-02-21T23:20:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T05:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=10993"},"modified":"2016-02-21T21:33:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T03:33:42","slug":"2016-17-hunting-licenses-now-on-sale-2015-16-licenses-expire-on-february-29th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2016\/02\/21\/2016-17-hunting-licenses-now-on-sale-2015-16-licenses-expire-on-february-29th\/","title":{"rendered":"2016-17 Hunting Licenses Now on Sale; 2015-16 Licenses Expire on February 29th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-46127\" title=\"Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency - TWRA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tennessee-wildlife-resources-agency.gif\" alt=\"Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency - TWRA\" width=\"133\" height=\"130\" \/><strong>Nashville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; The 2016-17 Tennessee hunting and fishing licenses are now on sale.<\/p>\n<p>Licenses are available at Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) regional offices, license agents, on the TWRA website, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tnwildlife.org\" >www.tnwildlife.org<\/a> and at the TWRA \u201cOn the Go App\u201d and charged to a credit card. Licenses may also be ordered by telephone and charged to a credit card by calling 1.888.814.8972.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Tennessee-Hunting-License.jpg\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-335656\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-335656\" title=\"Tennessee Hunting License\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Tennessee-Hunting-License-480x270.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Hunting License\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><!--more-->The new licenses annually go on sale each February 18th. The 2016-17 licenses are valid through February 2017.<\/p>\n<p>License sales provide the primary funding for the TWRA, which does not receive any funding from the state&#8217;s general fund (i.e. state sales tax). The 2015-16 licenses expire February 29th.<\/p>\n<p>Resident licenses may be purchased by persons who possess a valid Tennessee driver\u2019s license; persons who have lived in Tennessee for 90 consecutive days with the genuine intent of making Tennessee their permanent home(but do not hold a driver\u2019s license in another state); military personnel on active duty in this state and their immediate families, who reside with them, regardless of resident status; students who are enrolled in a Tennessee school, college, or university for at least six months. A Social Security number is required to purchase a Tennessee hunting or fishing license.<\/p>\n<p>All licenses purchased by credit card will be charged a processing and handling fee. The fees over the telephone are $7.50 for those licenses mailed and $6.25 for those not mailed. Through the internet, charges are $4.25 for those licenses mailed and $3.00 for self-prints.<\/p>\n<p>To expedite telephone orders, the caller should have ready the name, address, physical description, Social Security number, driver\u2019s license number, TWRA ID number (if renewal), and credit card number.<\/p>\n<p>Licenses are printed on a special tear-resistant, water-proof paper. In case of a lost license, duplicate licenses can be obtained from any TWRA license agent for an $8.00 fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; The 2016-17 Tennessee hunting and fishing licenses are now on sale. Licenses are available at Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) regional offices, license agents, on the TWRA website, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tnwildlife.org\" >www.tnwildlife.org<\/a> and at the TWRA \u201cOn the Go App\u201d and charged to a credit card. Licenses may also be ordered by telephone and charged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[284,1552,261,10769,5526,2070,608,973],"class_list":["post-10993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-nashville-tn","tag-social-security-number","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-drivers-license","tag-tennessee-fishing-license","tag-tennessee-hunting-license","tag-tennessee-wildlife-resources-agency","tag-twra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10994,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10993\/revisions\/10994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}