483A.1  Licenses — fees — rules.
  1.  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a person shall not fish, trap, hunt, pursue, catch, kill, take in any manner, use, have possession of, sell, or transport all or a part of any wild animal, bird, game, turtle, or fish, the protection and regulation of which is desirable for the conservation of resources of the state, without first obtaining a license for that purpose, and the payment of a fee as established by rules adopted by the commission pursuant to chapter 17A.
  2.  a.  The fees established by rule pursuant to subsection 1 shall be periodically evaluated by the department, but not less often than once every three years, to ensure that the fees paid are sufficient to meet the needs of natural resource management and the public.
  b.  By December 15 of each year on and after December 15, 2019, that an evaluation of the license fees is completed, the department shall file a written report with the commission and the general assembly which shall include the evaluation and recommendations for changes, if any. Any fee increase proposed in such a report shall not take effect until on or after December 15 of the year succeeding the report and an individual license fee shall not be increased in any calendar year in an amount that exceeds five percent.
[S13, §2563-a2, -o, -p; SS15, §2547-a, 2562-b, 2563-a1; C24, §1706, 1718, 1719, 1748, 1752, 1756, 1779; C27, §1706, 1718, 1719, 1719-a1, 1748, 1752, 1756, 1779; C31, §1706, 1718, 1718-c1, 1719, 1719-a1, 1748, 1752, 1756, 1766-c3, 1779; C35, §1794-e1; C39, §1794.082; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §110.1]
84 Acts, ch 1199, §2; 84 Acts, ch 1260, §2; 86 Acts, ch 1114, §1; 86 Acts, ch 1141, §17; 86 Acts, ch 1240, §1; 89 Acts, ch 90, §2; 89 Acts, ch 237, §1; 89 Acts, ch 238, §1; 91 Acts, ch 237, §3; 92 Acts, ch 1216, §10, 11
C93, §483A.1
95 Acts, ch 12, §1; 95 Acts, ch 46, §2; 98 Acts, ch 1199, §5, 27; 98 Acts, ch 1223, §30; 2001 Acts, ch 137, §5; 2001 Acts, ch 148, §1 – 3, 9; 2002 Acts, ch 1141, §1; 2003 Acts, ch 120, §1 – 4, 6; 2003 Acts, ch 152, §1 – 3, 6; 2005 Acts, ch 139, §3; 2007 Acts, ch 194, §1, 2; 2009 Acts, ch 144, §32, 33; 2009 Acts, ch 179, §147, 214, 215, 217; 2012 Acts, ch 1096, §5, 23; 2012 Acts, ch 1118, §14; 2013 Acts, ch 62, §1; 2014 Acts, ch 1058, §1, 2; 2018 Acts, ch 1159, §1, 28
Referred to in §331.605, 481A.93, 483A.1A, 483A.3, 483A.6B, 483A.7, 483A.8, 483A.9A, 483A.17, 483A.24, 483A.28, 717F.7, 805.8B(3)(o)
Commercial fishing licenses, see §482.4 
For applicable scheduled fines, see §805.8B, subsection 3, paragraph o 
Changes made to fees and terms of licenses by 2018 Acts, ch 1159, do not affect the validity of a license issued prior to December 15, 2018; 
2018 Acts, ch 1159, §28