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Code · Iowa · Chapter 481A — Wildlife Conservation

481A.55 Selling game.

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1. Except as otherwise provided, a person shall not buy or sell, dead or alive, a bird or animal or any part of one which is protected by this chapter, but this section does not apply to fur-bearing animals, bones of wild turkeys that were legally taken, and the skins, plumage, and antlers of legally taken game. This section does not prohibit the purchase of jackrabbits from sources outside this state. A person shall not purchase, sell, barter, or offer to purchase, sell, or barter for millinery or ornamental use the feathers of migratory game birds; and a person shall not purchase, sell, barter, or offer to purchase, sell, or barter mounted specimens of migratory game birds.
2. Section 481A.50 and this section do not apply to a game species, fur-bearing animal species, or variety of fish protected under this chapter which is sold by a nonprofit corporation as a part of a meal. The number of game of a game species or fur-bearing animal species, or a variety of fish protected by this chapter which are donated by a person to a nonprofit corporation plus any additional game of the same species or same variety of fish in the person’s possession must not exceed the person’s legal possession limit.
[C97, §2554; SS15, §2554; C24, 27, 31, §1769; C39, §1794.018; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §109.55]
C93, §481A.55
Referred to in §805.8B(3)(d)
For applicable scheduled fines, see §805.8B, subsection 3, paragraph d
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