461C.2  Definitions.
  As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
  1.  “Charge” means any consideration, the admission price or fee asked in return for invitation or permission to enter or go upon the land.
  2.  “Holder” means the possessor of a fee interest, a tenant, lessee, occupant or person in control of the premises; provided, however, holder shall not mean the state of Iowa, its political subdivisions, or any public body or any agencies, departments, boards, or commissions thereof.
  3.  “Land” means private land located in a municipality including abandoned or inactive surface mines, caves, and land used for agricultural purposes, including marshlands, timber, grasslands and the privately owned roads, water, water courses, private ways and buildings, structures and machinery or equipment appurtenant thereto.
  4.  “Municipality” means any city or county in the state.
  5.  “Recreational purpose” means the following or any combination thereof:  Hunting, trapping, horseback riding, fishing, swimming, boating, camping, picnicking, hiking, pleasure driving, motorcycling, nature study, water skiing, snowmobiling, other summer and winter sports, and viewing or enjoying historical, archaeological, scenic, or scientific sites while going to and from or actually engaged therein.
  6.  “Urban deer control” means deer hunting with a bow and arrow on private land in a municipality, without charge, as authorized by a municipal ordinance, for the purpose of reducing or stabilizing an urban deer population in the municipality.
[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §111C.2]
88 Acts, ch 1216, §46
C93, §461C.2
2006 Acts, ch 1121, §2, 3