1. A resident or nonresident person required to have a hunting, fur harvester or fur, fish and game license shall not hunt or trap unless the person carries a valid wildlife habitat stamp signed in ink with the person's signature across the face of the stamp. This section shall not apply to residents who are permanently disabled or who are younger than sixteen or older than sixty- five years of age. Special wildlife habitat stamps shall be administered in the same manner as hunting and fur harvester licenses except all revenue derived from the sale of the wildlife habitat stamps shall be used within the state of Iowa for habitat development and shall be deposited in the state fish and game protection fund, except as provided in subsection 2. The revenue may be used for the matching of federal funds. The revenues and any matched federal funds shall be used for acquisition of land, leasing of land or obtaining of easements from willing sellers for use as wildlife habitats. Notwithstanding the exemption provided by section 427.1, any land acquired with the revenues and matched federal funds shall be subject to the full consolidated levy of property taxes which shall be paid from those revenues. In addition such revenue may be used for the development and enhancement of wildlife lands and habitat areas. Not less than fifty percent of all revenue from the sale of wildlife habitat stamps shall be used by the commission to enter into agreements with county conservation boards or other public agencies in order to carry out the purposes of this section. The state share of funding of those agreements provided by the revenue from the sale of wildlife habitat stamps shall not exceed seventy-five percent.
2. Up to sixty percent of the revenues from the sale of wildlife habitat stamps which are not required under subsection 1 to be used by the commission to enter into agreements with county conservation boards or other public agencies may be credited to the wildlife habitat bond fund as provided in section 483A.53.
[C79, 81, § 110.3]
84 Acts, ch 1260, § 3; 86 Acts, ch 1114, § 2; 86 Acts, ch 1231, § 1 ~IC93, § 483A.3
Referred to in § 427.1(38), 805.8(5b)
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