H-8196

   Amend House File 2458 as follows:
   1.  Page 25, after line 5 by inserting: 

<DIVISION ___
RELATED STATUTORY CHANGES FOR CODIFICATION IN 2014 PRESERVE WHITETAIL
   Sec. ___.  Section 484C.2, subsection 2, Code 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  This chapter authorizes the department of natural resources to regulate preserve whitetail and land associated with hunting preserves. However, the department of agriculture and land stewardship shall regulate whitetail kept as farm deer pursuant to chapter 170.
   Sec. ___.  Section 484C.4, Code 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   484C.4  Departmental programs and requirements.

   The department shall develop, administer, and enforce hunting preserve programs and requirements, which implement the provisions of this chapter and rules adopted by the department pursuant to section 484C.3, regarding fencing, recordkeeping, reporting, and the tagging, and transportation,; the testing, and monitoring, and quarantining for disease of preserve whitetail; and the quarantining of a hunting preserve or a former hunting preserve where diseased preserve whitetail are or were kept.
   Sec. ___.  Section 484C.12, Code 2014, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  3.  The department may quarantine a hunting preserve or former hunting preserve if it determines that the presence of an infectious, contagious, or reportable disease threatens the health of animal populations. A landowner of the hunting preserve or former hunting preserve shall comply with all requirements of the quarantine. The quarantine shall provide for the maintenance of a fence in the same manner as required in section 484C.6, regardless of any of the following:
   a.  The fence has not been certified or is no longer certified under section 484C.6 or the hunting preserve has not been registered or is no longer registered pursuant to section 484C.7.
   b.  The landowner has relinquished the hunting preserve as part of a business, including but not limited to by removing any number of whitetail.>
   2.  Title page, line 5, by striking <and including> and inserting <including>
   3.  Title page, line 5, after <provisions> by inserting <, and making penalties applicable>
   4.  By renumbering as necessary.

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HANSON of Jefferson