Bill Text: IA SF464 | 2011-2012 | 84th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: A bill for an act allowing the establishment of an open season for hunting mourning doves. (Formerly SF 83.) Effective 7-1-11.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2011-12-31 - END OF 2011 ACTIONS [SF464 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2011-SF464-Enrolled.html

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Senate File 464
AN ACT
ALLOWING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN OPEN SEASON FOR HUNTING
MOURNING DOVES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
Section 1. Section 481A.48, subsection 1, Code 2011, is
amended to read as follows:
1. No A person, except as otherwise provided by law, shall
not willfully disturb, pursue, shoot, kill, take or attempt
to take or have in possession any of the following game birds
or animals except within the open season established by the
commission: Gray or fox squirrel, bobwhite quail, cottontail or
jackrabbit, duck, snipe, pheasant, goose, woodcock, partridge,
mourning dove, coot, rail, ruffed grouse, wild turkey, pigeons,
or deer. The seasons, bag limits, possession limits, and

Senate File 464, p. 2
locality shall be established by the department or commission
under the authority of sections 456A.24 , 481A.38 , and 481A.39 .
______________________________
JOHN P. KIBBIE
President of the Senate
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KRAIG PAULSEN
Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
is known as Senate File 464, Eighty-fourth General Assembly.
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MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
Secretary of the Senate
Approved _______________, 2011
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TERRY E. BRANSTAD
Governor