481A.55  Selling game.

Except as otherwise provided, a person shall not buy or sell, dead or alive, a bird or animal or any part of one which is protected by this chapter, but this section does not apply to fur-bearing animals, and the skins, plumage, and antlers of legally taken game. This section does not prohibit the purchase of jackrabbits from sources outside this state. A person shall not purchase, sell, barter, or offer to purchase, sell, or barter for millinery or ornamental use the feathers of migratory game birds; and a person shall not purchase, sell, barter, or offer to purchase, sell, or barter mounted specimens of migratory game birds.

Section 481A.50 and this section do not apply to a game species, fur-bearing animal species, or variety of fish protected under this chapter which is sold by a nonprofit corporation as a part of a meal. The number of game of a game species or fur-bearing animal species, or a variety of fish protected by this chapter which are donated by a person to a nonprofit corporation plus any additional game of the same species or same variety of fish in the person's possession must not exceed the person's legal possession limit.

Section History: Early form

  [C97, § 2554; SS15, § 2554; C24, 27, 31, § 1769; C39, § 1794.018; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 109.55]

Section History: Recent form

  87 Acts, ch 176, § 1; 88 Acts, ch 1216, §16

  C93, § 481A.55

Internal References

  Referred to in § 805.8(5d)


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