House File 254 - Enrolled House File 254 AN ACT RELATING TO TAGGING REQUIREMENTS FOR DEER CARCASSES AND INCLUDING PENALTIES. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: Section 1. Section 483A.8, subsection 2, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows: 2. a. 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. b. For purposes of the tagging requirements in this subsection, a deer carcass may be moved away from an obstacle, entanglement, waterway, or any other area, including but not limited to a roadway, if tagging the carcass at that location would be a safety hazard to the hunter or a third person, before the tag is attached to the carcass. However, the carcass shall not be moved from the immediate vicinity of where the deer was taken, shall be moved only so far as is necessary to avoid the obstacle, entanglement, waterway, or other safety

House File 254, p. 2 hazard, and shall be tagged immediately upon being so moved and before being moved to be transported. ______________________________ LINDA UPMEYER Speaker of the House ______________________________ JACK WHITVER President of the Senate I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 254, Eighty-seventh General Assembly. ______________________________ CARMINE BOAL Chief Clerk of the House Approved _______________, 2017 ______________________________ TERRY E. BRANSTAD Governor