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SF 720 Senate Long Description

E Authorizing and providing for the harvesting of farmed elk (cervidae) on licensed shooting preserves; specifying license application requirements and an annual fee and a limit on the number of elk shooting preserves allowed to be licensed by the commissioner of agriculture; restricting game available to farmed elk from herds in the accredited program of the board of animal health; specifying certain preserve location, size, boundaries posting and fencing requirements; authorizing the commissioner to revoke shooting preserve licenses under certain conditions; prescribing the open harvesting season, exempting harvesting of authorized species of elk on licensed preserves from hunting license requirements and specifying authorized weapons; authorizing licensees to establish certain restrictions; specifying certain elk identification and marking and shooting preserves recordkeeping requirements (ja)