Warren County’s treasurer is hoping not to see hunters lose out on doe licenses over 20 cents.

The treasurer’s office will begin accepting resident doe license applications on July 11. Applications that are not properly completed are rejected and sent back to the applicant.

This year, the company that provides the Pennsylvania Automated Licensing System (PALS) re-negotiated its contract and is allowed to charge an additional 20 cents in transaction fees per application, according to Treasurer Denny Munksgard.

For years, a doe license application has cost $6.70. This year, it will be $6.90.

If the office receives an application with payment of $6.70 included, “we have to send it back,” Munksgard said.

The correct amounts are listed on the applications.

Applications, and the official pink envelopes they must be mailed in, are sent along with hunting licenses and are available at the treasurer’s office inside the Game Commission’s Hunting and Trapping Digest.

By the time the application is sent back and the applicant makes the necessary corrections, it is possible that all tags will be sold and the hunter will have missed out, he said. “My concern is that people aren’t going to get their licenses if they don’t pay the right amount.”

The fee increase applies to out-of-state hunters, too. The cost for non-resident hunters is $26.90 – up 20 cents.

There were 29,000 doe tags allocated to Wildlife Management Unit 1B and 22,000 for WMU 2F. Those numbers are the same as the 2015 allocations.

Landowners with at least 50 contiguous acres who agree to leave their land open to hunting by others may apply for landowner doe tags now through July 8.

Starting on July 11, residents will have one week to purchase doe licenses before non-residents may apply. Doe tags are awarded on a first-come, first-served basis, for applications that are complete and correctly submitted. Applications that are received before the first day of the processing period will be sent back to the applicant.

When residents were allowed two weeks before non-residents doe licenses would frequently sell out before any non-residents had a chance, Munksgard said.

Typically, WMUs 1B and 2F are among the first to sell out, he said.

“The only way you can get a doe license is through the county treasurer’s office,” Munksgard said. “Each county treasurer can sell an antlerless license for any WMU in the state.”