HF 2374 (LSB 5918HV (1) 86)

HOUSE FILE 2374

BY  COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES

(SUCCESSOR TO HF 2179)

A BILL FOR

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 2016, 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 hazard, and shall be tagged immediately upon being so moved and before being moved to be transported.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with

the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill provides that for purposes of requirements that a deer carcass must be affixed with a tag before being moved for transport, the carcass can be moved away from an obstacle, entanglement, waterway, or any 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. The bill also provides that 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 safety hazard, and shall be immediately tagged upon being so moved and before being moved to be transported. A violation of the bill’s provisions is punishable with a scheduled fine of $25.