Bill Text: IA HF2374 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to tagging requirements for deer carcasses and including penalties. (Formerly HF 2179)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-11 - Rereferred to Natural Resources. H.J. 456. [HF2374 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-HF2374-Introduced.html

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House File 2374 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON NATURAL
                                     RESOURCES

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO HF 2179)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to tagging requirements for deer carcasses and
  2    including penalties.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 483A.8, subsection 2, Code 2016, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    2.  a.  The deer hunting license shall be accompanied by
  1  4 a tag designed to be used only once. When a deer is taken,
  1  5 the deer shall be tagged and the tag shall be dated. The tag
  1  6 shall be attached to the carcass of a deer taken within fifteen
  1  7 minutes of the time the deer carcass is located after being
  1  8 taken, or before the carcass is moved to be transported by any
  1  9 means from the place where the deer was taken, whichever occurs
  1 10 first. For each antlered deer taken, the tag shall be affixed
  1 11 to the deer's antlers.
  1 12    b.  For purposes of the tagging requirements in this
  1 13 subsection, a deer carcass may be moved away from an obstacle,
  1 14 entanglement, waterway, or any other area, including but not
  1 15 limited to a roadway, if tagging the carcass at that location
  1 16 would be a safety hazard to the hunter or a third person,
  1 17 before the tag is attached to the carcass.  However, the
  1 18 carcass shall not be moved from the immediate vicinity of where
  1 19 the deer was taken, shall be moved only so far as is necessary
  1 20 to avoid the obstacle, entanglement, waterway, or other safety
  1 21 hazard, and shall be tagged immediately upon being so moved and
  1 22 before being moved to be transported.
  1 23                           EXPLANATION
  1 24 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 25 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 26    This bill provides that for purposes of requirements that
  1 27 a deer carcass must be affixed with a tag before being moved
  1 28 for transport, the carcass can be moved away from an obstacle,
  1 29 entanglement, waterway, or any area, including but not limited
  1 30 to a roadway, if tagging the carcass at that location would be
  1 31 a safety hazard to the hunter or a third person, before the tag
  1 32 is attached.  The bill also provides that the carcass shall
  1 33 not be moved from the immediate vicinity of where the deer was
  1 34 taken, shall be moved only so far as is necessary to avoid the
  1 35 safety hazard, and shall be immediately tagged upon being so
  2  1 moved and before being moved to be transported.  A violation
  2  2 of the bill's provisions is punishable with a scheduled fine
  2  3 of $25.
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