Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF2898

Authorizing and providing for the harvesting of farmed cervidae on licensed
shooting preserves; specifying license application requirements and fees;
prohibiting the operation of cervidae shooting preserves without a license,
providing for issuance by the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) in
consultation with the commissioner of agriculture; specifying certain stocked
game requirements, requiring the testing of harvested cervidae for chronic
wasting disease by a licensed veterinarian, requiring reporting of positive
results to the board of animal health; specifying certain reserve location,
size, boundaries posting and fencing requirements; requiring removal of wild
cervidae before licensing at owner expense; authorizing the commissioner of
natural resources to revoke shooting preserve licenses for violation of the
requirements; exempting the preserves from hunting license requirements and
authorizing hunting by archery or firearms; prescribing the open hunting season,
authorizing commissioner restrictions under certain conditions; authorizing
licensees to establish certain restrictions; specifying certain cervidae
identification and marking and shooting preserve recordkeeping requirements,
requiring annual reports to the commissioner, imposing a fee per cervid;
appropriating license fees to the commissioner for administration and
enforcement purposes and requiring fees to be credited to the game and fish
fund(je)