RELATING TO THE ATTACHMENT OF TAGS TO DEER CARCASSES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

   Section 1.  Section 483A.8, subsection 2, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  The deer hunting license shall be accompanied by a tag designed to be used only once. When a deer is taken, the deer shall be tagged and the tag shall be dated. The tag shall be attached to the carcass of a deer taken within fifteen minutes of the time the deer carcass is located after being taken, or before the carcass is moved to be transported by any means from the place where the deer was taken, whichever occurs first.

For each antlered deer taken, the tag shall be affixed to the deer’s antlers.

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KRAIG PAULSEN
Speaker of the House

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JOHN P. KIBBIE
President of the Senate

   I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 461, Eighty-fourth General Assembly.

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W. CHARLES SMITHSON
Chief Clerk of the House
Approved _______________, 2011

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TERRY E. BRANSTAD
Governor