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SF 812 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 and restrictions and requiring shooting preserves +to participate in the state chronic wasting disease surveillance +program; specifying certain reserve size and cover, 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 board of animal health and granting the board access to records; +imposing a fee per cervid taken; appropriating license fees to the commissioner +for administration and enforcement purposes and requiring fees to be +credited to the game and fish fund(ra)