2012-13 Iowa Hunting And Trapping Regulations - Iowa Department ...

General Hunting Regulations
Farm laborer.
A farm laborer who is not an eligible member
of the landowner or tenant’s family and who works
for wages or other compensation is not entitled to
a Landowner-Tenant License.
Landowners and Tenants Must Register
Before Obtaining Landowner-Tenant Deer and
Turkey Licenses
1) Landowners and tenants of qualifying agricultural
land that are eligible to obtain Landowner-
Tenant deer or wild turkey hunting licenses and
their eligible family members must register with
the DNR prior to obtaining these licenses. The
ELSI system will not issue these licenses to
persons who are not registered. All landownertenant
registrations will be reviewed by DNR staff.
Registrations found to contain false or incomplete
information will be inactivated. Persons who provided
information proved to be false could result
in conviction and loss of hunting privileges. See p.
10 for eligibility requirements.
2) Registering once will establish eligibility for
all Landowner-Tenant deer and turkey licenses. If
the ownership - renter situation changes, individuals
must contact the DNR to update their registration.
3) Landowners, tenants and their eligible family
members must have an ELSI customer record,
(purchased at least one license of any type through
ELSI) prior to registering.
Persons with an existing ELSI customer record
may register on-line at www.iowadnr.gov or by
mail. Instructions and forms can be obtained online
at www.iowadnr.gov, at DNR offices, at ELSI vendors
or by calling 515-281-5918.
Landowner-Tenant Licenses are valid only on
the farm unit of the landowner or tenant. Hunters
that obtain these licenses may also obtain any paid
licenses available to other hunters.
GENERAL HUNTING REGULATIONS
Definitions
Please read the definitions of these terms, commonly
used in the hunting regulations summary,
before referring to the rest of the text.
“Hunting” means any pursuing, hunting, killing,
trapping, snaring, netting, searching for or
shooting at, stalking or lying in wait for any game,
animal, bird or fish protected by the state laws or
rules adopted by the commission whether or not
such animal is captured, killed or injured.
“Limits” Daily Bag Limit or Possession Limit
is the number of a species permitted to be taken or
held in a specified time.
“Motor vehicle” means any self-propelled vehicle
having at least three wheels and which must
be registered as a motor vehicle, including ATVs
and snowmobiles.
“Paraplegic” means an individual afflicted
with paralysis of the lower half of the body with
the involvement of both legs, usually due to disease
of or injury to the spinal cord.
“Physically handicapped person,” when used
in reference to crossbow permits for deer and turkey
hunting, means a person having a physical impairment
of the upper extremities that makes a person
physically incapable of shooting a bow and arrow.
This includes difficulty in lifting and reaching with
arms as well as difficulty in handling and fingering
a bow.
“Physically handicapped person,” when used
in the Game Management Area Restrictions section
(see p. 16), or “non-ambulatory person” when used
in the Non-Ambulatory Deer License section (see p.
27) means an individual commonly termed paraplegic
or quadriplegic, with paralysis or a physical condition
of the lower half of the body involving both
legs, usually due to disease or injury to the spinal
cord; a person who is a single or double leg amputee;
or a person with any other physical affliction
which makes it impossible to ambulate successfully
without the use of a motor vehicle.
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