House File 36 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 36 BY HEARTSILL A BILL FOR An Act relating to tagging requirements for deer carcasses and 1 including penalties. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 1221YH (2) 87 av/nh

H.F. 36 Section 1. Section 483A.8, subsection 2, Code 2017, is 1 amended to read as follows: 2 2. a. The deer hunting license shall be accompanied by 3 a tag designed to be used only once. When a deer is taken, 4 the deer shall be tagged and the tag shall be dated. The tag 5 shall be attached to the carcass of a deer taken within fifteen 6 minutes of the time the deer carcass is located after being 7 taken, or before the carcass is moved to be transported by any 8 means from the place where the deer was taken, whichever occurs 9 first. For each antlered deer taken, the tag shall be affixed 10 to the deer’s antlers. 11 b. For purposes of the tagging requirements in this 12 subsection, a deer carcass may be moved away from an obstacle, 13 entanglement, waterway, or any other area, including but not 14 limited to a roadway, if tagging the carcass at that location 15 would be a safety hazard to the hunter or a third person, 16 before the tag is attached to the carcass. However, the 17 carcass shall not be moved from the immediate vicinity of where 18 the deer was taken, shall be moved only so far as is necessary 19 to avoid the obstacle, entanglement, waterway, or other safety 20 hazard, and shall be tagged immediately upon being so moved and 21 before being moved to be transported. 22 EXPLANATION 23 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 24 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 25 This bill provides that for purposes of requirements that 26 a deer carcass must be affixed with a tag before being moved 27 for transport, the carcass can be moved away from an obstacle, 28 entanglement, waterway, or any area, including but not limited 29 to a roadway, if tagging the carcass at that location would be 30 a safety hazard to the hunter or a third person, before the tag 31 is attached. The bill also provides that the carcass shall 32 not be moved from the immediate vicinity of where the deer was 33 taken, shall be moved only so far as is necessary to avoid the 34 safety hazard, and shall be immediately tagged upon being so 35 -1- LSB 1221YH (2) 87 av/nh 1/ 2

H.F. 36 moved and before being moved to be transported. A violation 1 of the bill’s provisions is punishable with a scheduled fine 2 of $25. 3 -2- LSB 1221YH (2) 87 av/nh 2/ 2