Senate File 2025 - Introduced
SENATE FILE
BY HECKROTH
Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act relating to prohibited shooting or hunting near certain
2 buildings and their grounds and providing penalties.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN
1 1 Section 1. Section 481A.123, subsection 1, Code Supplement
1 2 2007, is amended to read as follows:
1 3 1. A person shall not discharge a firearm or shoot or
1 4 attempt to shoot a game or fur=bearing animal within two
1 5 hundred yards of a building, or the maintained grounds
1 6 immediately surrounding the building, inhabited by people or
1 7 domestic livestock or within two hundred yards of a feedlot
1 8 unless the owner or tenant has given consent. However, within
1 9 the corporate limits of a city, a person may take deer with a
1 10 firearm within fifty yards of a building, or the maintained
1 11 grounds immediately surrounding the building, inhabited by
1 12 people or domestic livestock, or a feedlot pursuant to an
1 13 approved special deer population control plan, if the person
1 14 obtains permission of the owner or tenant of the building or
1 15 feedlot.
1 16 Sec. 2. Section 481A.123, subsection 3, paragraph a, Code
1 17 Supplement 2007, is amended to read as follows:
1 18 a. This section does not apply to the discharge of a
1 19 firearm for the purpose of target shooting on premises posted
1 20 as a target shooting range that is open to the public, if the
1 21 premises have been used as a target shooting range prior to
1 22 the erection of a building, or the maintained grounds
1 23 immediately surrounding the building, inhabited by people or
1 24 domestic livestock, or prior to the construction of a feedlot,
1 25 located within two hundred yards of the target shooting range.
1 26 This subsection applies only to the erection of a building, or
1 27 the maintained grounds immediately surrounding the building,
1 28 inhabited by people or domestic livestock or to the
1 29 construction of a feedlot located within two hundred yards of
1 30 a target shooting range that is open to the public and that is
1 31 identified as a target shooting range by the city, county,
1 32 state, or federal government, which erection or construction
1 33 occurs on or after May 14, 2004.
1 34 Sec. 3. Section 481A.123, subsection 4, paragraph a, Code
1 35 Supplement 2007, is amended to read as follows:
2 1 a. This section does not apply to the discharge of a
2 2 firearm on premises identified as a public hunting area, if
2 3 the premises have been identified as a public hunting area
2 4 prior to the erection of a building, or the maintained grounds
2 5 immediately surrounding the building, inhabited by people or
2 6 domestic livestock, or prior to the construction of a feedlot,
2 7 located within two hundred yards of the public hunting area.
2 8 This subsection applies only to the erection of a building, or
2 9 the maintained grounds immediately surrounding the building,
2 10 inhabited by people or domestic livestock or to the
2 11 construction of a feedlot located within two hundred yards of
2 12 a public hunting area, which erection or construction occurs
2 13 on or after May 14, 2004.
2 14 EXPLANATION
2 15 This bill amends Code section 481A.123 to provide that the
2 16 prohibition against discharging a firearm or shooting or
2 17 attempting to shoot a game or fur=bearing animal within 200
2 18 yards of a building inhabited by people or domestic livestock
2 19 also applies to the maintained grounds immediately surrounding
2 20 such a building.
2 21 A violation of this provision is punishable by a scheduled
2 22 fine of $25.
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