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1 1 SENATE FILE 362
1 2
1 3 AN ACT
1 4 ESTABLISHING A WILD ANIMAL DEPREDATION UNIT WITHIN THE
1 5 DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, ALLOWING THE DISCHARGE
1 6 OF FIREARMS IN STATE PARKS FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES, PRO-
1 7 VIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF ADDITIONAL FREE DEER HUNTING
1 8 LICENSES, SUBJECTING VIOLATORS TO AN EXISTING PENALTY,
1 9 AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
1 10
1 11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
1 12
1 13 Section 1. Section 461A.42, subsection 1, Code 1997, is
1 14 amended by striking the subsection and inserting in lieu
1 15 thereof the following:
1 16 1. The use of firearms, explosives, and weapons of all
1 17 kinds by a person is prohibited in all state parks and
1 18 preserves except under the following conditions:
1 19 a. A firearm or other weapon authorized for hunting may be
1 20 used in preserves or parts of preserves designated by the
1 21 state advisory board on preserves at the request of the
1 22 commission.
1 23 b. A person may use a bow and arrow with an attached bow
1 24 fishing reel and ninety-pound minimum line attached to the
1 25 arrow to take rough fish as provided by rule of the
1 26 commission.
1 27 c. The commission may establish, by rule, the state parks
1 28 or parts of state parks where firearms may be discharged
1 29 during special events, festivals and education programs, or a
1 30 special hunt to control animal populations. The rules
1 31 governing special hunts to control animal populations shall be
1 32 applied separately to each designated state park.
1 33 Sec. 2. NEW SECTION. 481C.1 WILD ANIMAL DEPREDATION
1 34 UNIT.
1 35 A wild animal depredation unit is established within the
2 1 fish and wildlife division of the department of natural
2 2 resources. The unit shall be comprised of two wild animal
2 3 depredation biologists. The biologists shall serve under the
2 4 director of the department of natural resources.
2 5 Sec. 3. NEW SECTION. 481C.2 DUTIES.
2 6 The director of the department of natural resources shall
2 7 enter into a memorandum of agreement with the United States
2 8 department of agriculture, animal damage control division.
2 9 The unit shall serve and act as the liaison to the department
2 10 for the producers in the state who suffer crop and nursery
2 11 damage due to wild animals. The department shall issue
2 12 depredation permits as necessary to reduce crop and nursery
2 13 damage due to wild animals. The criteria for issuing
2 14 depredation permits shall be established in administrative
2 15 rules in consultation with the farmer advisory committee
2 16 created in section 481A.10A.
2 17 Sec. 4. NEW SECTION. 481C.3 FUNDING.
2 18 Notwithstanding section 483A.30, the revenue from
2 19 nonresident deer and wild turkey hunting licenses shall first
2 20 be used to pay the salaries, support, and maintenance of the
2 21 wild animal depredation unit established pursuant to section
2 22 481C.1. The remaining revenue from nonresident deer and wild
2 23 turkey hunting licenses shall be used to meet the requirements
2 24 of section 483A.30.
2 25 Sec. 5. REPORT TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 1998. The department
2 26 of natural resources shall report, during January 1998, to the
2 27 chairpersons and ranking members of the house committee on
2 28 natural resources and the senate committee on natural
2 29 resources and environment the number of applications received
2 30 for depredation permits and the number of depredation permits
2 31 issued during the preceding calendar year pursuant to section
2 32 481C.2.
2 33 Sec. 6. Section 483A.24, subsection 2, Code 1997, is
2 34 amended by adding the following new paragraph:
2 35 NEW PARAGRAPH. d. If the commission establishes a deer
3 1 hunting season to occur in the first quarter of a calendar
3 2 year that is separate from a deer hunting season that
3 3 continues from the last quarter of the preceding calendar
3 4 year, each owner and each tenant of a farm unit located within
3 5 a zone where a deer hunting season is established, upon
3 6 application, shall be issued a free deer hunting license for
3 7 each of the two calendar quarters. Each license is valid only
3 8 for hunting on the farm unit of the owner and tenant.
3 9 Sec. 7. Section 483A.30, Code 1997, is repealed effective
3 10 December 31, 1999.
3 11 Sec. 8. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of
3 12 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
3 13
3 14
3 15
3 16 MARY E. KRAMER
3 17 President of the Senate
3 18
3 19
3 20
3 21 RON J. CORBETT
3 22 Speaker of the House
3 23
3 24 I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
3 25 is known as Senate File 362, Seventy-seventh General Assembly.
3 26
3 27
3 28
3 29 MARY PAT GUNDERSON
3 30 Secretary of the Senate
3 31 Approved , 1997
3 32
3 33
3 34
3 35 TERRY E. BRANSTAD
4 1 Governor
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