Section 484B.3. Authority of the director — exceptions to chapter.

  1.  The director shall develop, administer, and enforce hunting preserve programs and requirements within the state which implement the provisions of this chapter and rules adopted by the commission pursuant to this chapter.

  2.  a.  The chapter does not apply to keeping farm deer as regulated by the department of agriculture and land stewardship pursuant to chapter 170 or to preserve whitetail kept on a hunting preserve as regulated by the department of natural resources pursuant to chapter 484C.

  b.  This chapter does not apply to an owner or tenant of land raising or releasing pen-reared pheasants on the owner’s or tenant’s land as provided in section 481A.6A, provided that a person taking a pen-reared pheasant complies with all requirements provided in chapters 481A and 483A.

92 Acts, ch 1160, §3

; 2003 Acts, ch 149, §19, 23

; 2005 Acts, ch 139, §13

; 2010 Acts, ch 1180, §2