House File 2458 H-8205 Amend House File 2458 as follows: 1 1. Page 25, after line 5 by inserting: 2 < DIVISION ___ 3 RELATED STATUTORY CHANGES FOR CODIFICATION IN 2014 4 PRESERVE WHITETAIL 5 Sec. ___. Section 484C.2, subsection 2, Code 2014, 6 is amended to read as follows: 7 2. This chapter authorizes the department of 8 natural resources to regulate preserve whitetail and 9 land associated with hunting preserves . However, 10 the department of agriculture and land stewardship 11 shall regulate whitetail kept as farm deer pursuant to 12 chapter 170 . 13 Sec. ___. Section 484C.4, Code 2014, is amended to 14 read as follows: 15 484C.4 Departmental programs and requirements. 16 The department shall develop, administer, and 17 enforce hunting preserve programs and requirements, 18 which implement the provisions of this chapter and 19 rules adopted by the department pursuant to section 20 484C.3 , regarding fencing, recordkeeping, reporting, 21 and the tagging, and transportation , ; the testing, and 22 monitoring , and quarantining for disease of preserve 23 whitetail ; and the quarantining of a hunting preserve 24 or a former hunting preserve where diseased preserve 25 whitetail are or were kept . 26 Sec. ___. Section 484C.12, Code 2014, is amended by 27 adding the following new subsection: 28 NEW SUBSECTION . 3. a. The department may 29 quarantine a hunting preserve or former hunting 30 preserve if it determines that the presence of an 31 infectious, contagious, or reportable disease threatens 32 the health of animal populations. 33 b. A landowner of the hunting preserve or former 34 hunting preserve shall comply with all requirements of 35 the quarantine. The quarantine shall provide for the 36 maintenance of a fence in the same manner as required 37 in section 484C.6, regardless of any of the following: 38 (1) The fence has not been certified or is no 39 longer certified under section 484C.6 or the hunting 40 preserve has not been registered or is no longer 41 registered pursuant to section 484C.7. 42 (2) The landowner has relinquished the hunting 43 preserve as part of a business, including but not 44 limited to by removing any number of whitetail. 45 c. The department shall establish the period of 46 the quarantine which shall not be for more than ten 47 years from the date that the department determines the 48 presence of the infectious, contagious, or reportable 49 disease as provided in paragraph “a” . > 50 -1- HF2458.3729 (3) 85 da/jp 1/ 2 #1.
2. Title page, line 5, by striking < and including > 1 and inserting < including > 2 3. Title page, line 5, after < provisions > by 3 inserting < , and making penalties applicable > 4 4. By renumbering as necessary. 5 ______________________________ HANSON of Jefferson ______________________________ MAXWELL of Poweshiek ______________________________ SHEETS of Appanoose ______________________________ GASKILL of Wapello -2- HF2458.3729 (3) 85 da/jp 2/ 2 #2. #3. #4.