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House File 2616

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  1  1                                           HOUSE FILE 2616
  1  2  
  1  3                             AN ACT
  1  4 RELATING TO THE TIME OF POSSESSION OF DEER VENISON, INCREASING
  1  5    THE MINIMUM FINE FOR UNLAWFUL TAKING, POSSESSING, INJURING,
  1  6    OR TRANSPORTING PROTECTED SPECIES AND GAME, AND SUBJECTING
  1  7    VIOLATORS TO A PENALTY.
  1  8  
  1  9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  1 10  
  1 11    Section 1.  Section 481A.32, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code
  1 12 2001, is amended to read as follows:
  1 13    Whoever shall take, catch, kill, injure, destroy, have in
  1 14 possession, buy, sell, ship, or transport any frogs, fish,
  1 15 mussels, birds, their nests, eggs, or plumage, fowls, game, or
  1 16 animals or their fur or raw pelt in violation of the
  1 17 provisions of this chapter or of administrative rules of the
  1 18 commission or whoever shall use any device, equipment, seine,
  1 19 trap, net, tackle, firearm, drug, poison, explosive, or other
  1 20 substance or means, the use of which is prohibited by this
  1 21 chapter, or use the same at a time, place, or in a manner or
  1 22 for a purpose prohibited, or do any other act in violation of
  1 23 the provisions of this chapter or of administrative rules of
  1 24 the commission for which no other punishment is provided, is
  1 25 guilty of a simple misdemeanor and shall be assessed a minimum
  1 26 fine of ten twenty dollars for each offense.
  1 27    Sec. 2.  Section 481A.57, Code 2001, is amended to read as
  1 28 follows:
  1 29    481A.57  POSSESSION AND STORAGE.
  1 30    A person having lawful possession of game or fur-bearing
  1 31 animals or their pelts, except deer venison, may hold them for
  1 32 not to exceed thirty days after the close of the open season
  1 33 for such game or furbearers.  A person having lawful
  1 34 possession of deer venison which is taken with a valid deer
  1 35 hunting license, may hold the deer venison from the date of
  2  1 taking until the following September 1.  From September 1
  2  2 until the first day of the next deer open season for which the
  2  3 person holds a valid deer hunting license, the person shall
  2  4 not possess more than twenty-five pounds of deer venison.  Any
  2  5 person may possess up to twenty-five pounds of deer venison if
  2  6 the deer was obtained from a lawful source.  A permit to hold
  2  7 for a longer period may be granted by the department.
  2  8    Sec. 3.  Section 805.8B, subsection 3, paragraph e, Code
  2  9 Supplement 2001, is amended to read as follows:
  2 10    e.  For violations of sections 481A.57, 481A.85, 481A.93,
  2 11 481A.95, 481A.120, 481A.137, 481B.5, 482.3, 482.9, 482.15, and
  2 12 483A.42, the scheduled fine is one hundred dollars.  
  2 13 
  2 14 
  2 15                                                             
  2 16                               BRENT SIEGRIST
  2 17                               Speaker of the House
  2 18 
  2 19 
  2 20                                                             
  2 21                               MARY E. KRAMER
  2 22                               President of the Senate
  2 23 
  2 24    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
  2 25 is known as House File 2616, Seventy-ninth General Assembly.
  2 26 
  2 27 
  2 28                                                             
  2 29                               MARGARET THOMSON
  2 30                               Chief Clerk of the House
  2 31 Approved                , 2002
  2 32 
  2 33 
  2 34                            
  2 35 THOMAS J. VILSACK
  3  1 Governor
     

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