HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 2001

BY  JOINT ADMINISTRATIVE RULES REVIEW COMMITTEE

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION

A Joint Resolution nullifying an administrative rule of the natural resource commission prohibiting the use of lead shot for hunting mourning doves and providing an effective date.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  571 Iowa administrative code, rule 97.6, is nullified to read as follows:

571——97.6 (481A) Dove season. Open season for hunting mourning doves and Eurasian collared-doves shall begin on September 1 and continue for 70 consecutive days. Shooting hours shall be from one-half hour before sunrise to sunset each day. Daily bag limit is 15; possession limit is 30. The entire state is open. No person shall take a mourning dove or Eurasian collared-dove on any land or water of the state of Iowa while having in one’s possession any shot other than nontoxic approved by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
    Sec. 2.
  EFFECTIVE DATE.
  This joint resolution, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
EXPLANATION
   This joint resolution nullifies 571 IAC, rule 97.6, fifth sentence, in which the natural resource commission prohibits the use of lead shot for hunting mourning doves. Iowa Code sections 481A.38 and 481A.39 authorize the natural resource commission to regulate methods of take in the hunting of authorized species. The effective date of this portion of the rule was delayed until the end of the 2012 session of the general assembly by the administrative rules review committee at its meeting on August 16, 2011.
   The joint resolution takes effect upon enactment.