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SF 2898 Senate Long Description

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)