481A.123  Prohibited hunting near buildings, feedlots.

1.  A person shall not discharge a firearm or shoot or attempt to shoot a game or fur-bearing animal within two hundred yards of a building inhabited by people or domestic livestock or within two hundred yards of a feedlot unless the owner or tenant has given consent. However, within the corporate limits of a city, a person may take deer with a firearm within fifty yards of a building inhabited by people or domestic livestock, or a feedlot pursuant to an approved special deer population control plan, if the person obtains permission of the owner or tenant of the building or feedlot.

2.  As used in this section, "feedlot" means a lot, yard, corral, or other area in which livestock are present and confined, for the purposes of feeding and growth before slaughter. The term does not include areas which are used for the raising of crops or other vegetation and upon which livestock are allowed to graze or feed.

Section History: Early form

  [C77, 79, 81, § 109.123]

Section History: Recent form

  88 Acts, ch 1216, § 38; 90 Acts, ch 1194, § 1; 92 Acts, ch 1149, § 1

  C93, § 481A.123

  2000 Acts, ch 1116, §2

Footnotes

  For applicable scheduled fine, see §805.8B, subsection 3, paragraph c


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