Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session
Relating to: acreage requirements for areas in which farm-raised deer that may be hunted are kept.
Agriculture, trade and consumer protection, department of Hunting
- Introduced, stopped here
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Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
The Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection administers
the laws that regulate farm-raised deer of any species and that require the
registration of owners of farmed-raised deer. Under current law, an owner of a deer
farm may charge a fee for hunting deer on the farm only if the deer to be hunted are
confined in a contiguous area of 80 acres or more. Current law provides an exemption
to this requirement if the deer farm had a deer farm license issued by the Department
of Natural Resources (DNR) under previous law that was in effect on December 30,
2002, if the contiguous area is not smaller than the area authorized under the DNR
license, and if other requirements are met. This bill expands this exemption to
include areas that are less than 80 acres but that are part of a deer farm that is larger
than 80 acres if the area that is less than 80 acres is not smaller than it was on
December 31, 2002.