AB684: Bill Text

AB684,27,9 22.15 Captive wild animal farm licenses. (1) Issuance. (a) The department shall issue a Class A captive wild animal farm license to operate a captive wild animal farm that grosses $10,000 or more in annual sales to any qualified person who files a proper application for the license and who pays the applicable fee.

AB684,27,13 (b) The department shall issue a Class B captive wild animal farm license to operate a captive wild animal farm that grosses less than $10,000 in annual sales to any qualified person who files a proper application for the license and who pays the applicable fee.

AB684,27,17 (c) The department shall issue a Class A captive wild animal farm license to any qualified person who files a proper application for the license and who pays the applicable fee to operate a captive wild animal farm that contains more than 5 of any of the following:

AB684,27,18 1. Leopard frogs.

AB684,27,19 2. Mud puppies.

AB684,27,20 3. Tiger salamanders.

AB684,27,21 4. Bullfrogs that are taken or reared outside this state.

AB684,27,23 (d) The applicant shall specify the location of the enclosures for the wild animals on the application.

AB684,28,3 (2) Authorization. (a) A captive wild animal farm license authorizes the holder of the license to possess, propagate, kill, exhibit, purchase and sell live captive wild animals of the types specified by the department on the license.

AB684,28,5 (b) A captive wild animal farm license authorizes the killing of captive wild animals only by the holder of the license or an employe of the holder of the license.

AB684,28,8 (3) Calculation of annual sales. (a) The calculation of annual sales under sub. (1) and par. (b) shall be based on sales from the prior year that involve live captive wild animals that are any of the following:

AB684,28,9 1. Native wild animals.

AB684,28,10 2. Nonnative wild animals of the family cervidae.

AB684,28,11 3. Inherently dangerous wild animals.

AB684,28,12 4. Endangered or threatened species.

AB684,28,15 (b) For the first year that a person is issued a captive wild animal farm license, the person shall be issued a Class B captive wild animal farm license, unless one of the following applies:

AB684,28,19 1. The person operated a game bird and animal farm licensed under s. 29.867, 1997 stats., or a deer farm licensed under s. 29.871, 1997 stats., on the effective date of this subdivision .... [revisor inserts date], that grossed $10,000 or more in annual sales.

AB684,28,20 2. The person elects to be issued a Class A captive wild animal farm license.

AB684,28,24 (4) Control of wild animals. (a) A person holding a captive wild animal farm license shall control the wild animals at all times in the manner required by the department and shall keep the wild animals at the locations specified on the application for the license.

AB684,29,4 (b) If any member of the family ursidae, felidae, cervidae or canidae escapes from its enclosure or fenced area on a captive wild animal farm, the person holding the captive wild animal farm license shall notify the department within 24 hours after the escape.

AB684,29,7 (5) Rules. The department may promulgate rules to establish additional standards, limitations and requirements for captive wild animal farm licenses and for captive wild animal farms, including fencing of the farms.

AB684,29,11 22.16 Deer farm license. (1) Issuance. The department shall issue a deer farm license to any qualified person who files a proper application for the license and who pays the applicable fee. The applicant shall specify the locations of the enclosures for the deer on the application.

AB684,29,13 (2) Authorization. (a) A deer farm license authorizes the holder of the license to do any of the following:

AB684,29,14 1. Possess, propagate, purchase, sell and exhibit live captive white-tailed deer.

AB684,29,16 2. Sell or offer to sell the opportunity to hunt live white-tailed deer within the boundaries of the deer farm.

AB684,29,19 (b) A person holding a deer farm license shall provide a deer shipping tag that will accompany each live white-tailed deer that the person sells to be processed for venison.

AB684,29,23 (3) Exemption from hunting restrictions. A person hunting white-tailed deer on a deer farm is exempt from having any hunting approval issued under ch. 29 and is exempt from any closed season restrictions, bag limits or other conditions or restrictions established by the department under s. 29.014 (1).

AB684,30,3 (4) Control of deer. (a) A person holding a deer farm license shall control the deer at all times in the manner required by the department and shall keep the deer at the locations specified on the application for the license.

AB684,30,6 (b) If any deer escapes from its enclosure or fenced area on a deer farm, the person holding the deer farm license shall notify the department within 24 hours after the escape.

AB684,30,12 (5) Free-roaming deer. A person applying for a deer farm license shall make a reasonable effort to drive free-roaming white-tailed deer from land subject to the license that will be enclosed before the land is enclosed. If any white-tailed deer remain in the boundaries of a deer farm fence, the department may authorize the hunting of those deer. A person holding a deer farm license shall pay the department $250 for each white-tailed deer remaining within the boundaries.

AB684,30,15 (6) Rules. The department may promulgate rules to establish additional standards, limitations and requirements for deer farm licenses and for deer farms, including fencing of the farms.

AB684,30,18 22.17 White-tailed deer venison sales license. (1) Application. The department shall issue a white-tailed deer venison sales license to any qualified person who files a proper application for the license and who pays the applicable fee.

AB684,30,21 (2) Authorization. (a) A white-tailed deer venison sales license authorizes the holder of the license to sell, purchase and process venison from white-tailed deer that originates from a deer farm.

AB684,30,24 (3) Rules. The department may promulgate rules to establish additional standards, limitations and requirements for white-tailed venison sales licenses and for the premises at which venison from white-tailed deer is processed.

AB684,31,3 22.18 Wild fur farm license. (1) Issuance. The department shall issue a wild fur farm license to any qualified person who files a proper application and who pays the applicable fee.

AB684,31,5 (2) Authorization; limitations. (a) A wild fur farm license authorizes all of the following:

AB684,31,7 1. The holder of the license to possess and propagate live muskrat, beaver, raccoon, otter and mink on the land subject to the license.

AB684,31,10 2. The holder of the license and other persons authorized by the holder to take the live fur-bearing wild animals specified in subd. 1. or kill by trapping the fur-bearing wild animals specified in subd. 1.

AB684,31,12 3. The holder of the license to sell the live fur-bearing wild animals specified in subd. 1. to persons authorized to possess the fur-bearing wild animals.

AB684,31,14 (b) Section 29.501 shall apply to the possession and selling of the raw furs and dressed furs of the fur-bearing wild animals specified in par. (a) 1.

AB684,31,16 (c) The number of otter that are taken or killed may not exceed the quota established by rule by the department under sub. (5) (a).

AB684,31,18 (3) Eligible land. (a) Except as provided in par. (b), a wild fur farm licensed under this section shall be in a single parcel and may not exceed 640 acres.

AB684,31,22 (b) Upon the request of the applicant for a license under this section, the department shall issue a single license for a wild fur farm that does not meet all of the requirements of par. (a) if the wild fur farm is licensed as a fur animal farm under s. 29.869, 1997 stats., on the effective date of this paragraph .... [revisor inserts date].

AB684,32,2 (4) Exemption from trapping restrictions. Except as provided in sub. (2) (c), a person trapping fur-bearing wild animals on a wild fur farm is exempt from having any trapping approval issued under ch. 29 and is exempt from any closed season restrictions, bag limits or other conditions or restrictions established by the department under s. 29.014 (1) or 29.192.

AB684,32,4 (5) Rules. (a) The department shall promulgate by rule a quota for taking, or killing by trapping, otter for purposes of this section.

AB684,32,6 (b) The department shall promulgate rules for the purpose of determining whether a piece of land qualifies as a single parcel under sub. (3).

AB684,32,8 (c) The department may promulgate rules to establish additional standards, limitations and requirements for wild fur farm licenses and for wild fur farms.

AB684,32,11 22.19 Bird hunting preserve licenses. (1) Issuance. The department shall issue a Class A or a Class B bird hunting preserve license to any qualified person who files a proper application and who pays the applicable fee.

AB684,32,13 (2) Authorization. (a) A Class A or a Class B bird hunting preserve license authorizes all of the following:

AB684,32,16 1. Possessing, stocking, propagating, releasing into the wild, selling and purchasing of live wild birds of the species authorized under par. (b) by the holder of the license.

AB684,32,19 2. Hunting or taking of released wild birds of those species that have been stocked in the preserve by the holder of the license and other persons authorized by the holder.

AB684,32,21 (b) The department may authorize only one or more of the following species of live wild birds under a Class A or a Class B bird hunting preserve license:

AB684,32,23 1. Pheasants of the species Phasianus colchicus or the species Syrmaticus reevesii.

AB684,32,24 2. Quail that are of the subfamily Odontophorinae.

AB684,32,25 3. Gray partridge.

AB684,33,1 4. Chukar partridge.

AB684,33,2 5. Red-legged partridge.

AB684,33,3 6. Mallard ducks that are bred in captivity.

AB684,33,5 7. Wild turkeys, if the wild turkeys are located outside a wild turkey hunting zone established under s. 29.164.

AB684,33,7 (c) The department shall specify on the license the types of wild birds that the department authorizes under the license.

AB684,33,11 (3) Regulation of number of birds. (a) A person holding a bird hunting preserve license may not allow the number of wild birds of a given species in the preserve that are killed or taken in a given year to exceed the number of captive wild birds of that species that have been stocked in the preserve for that license year.

AB684,33,15 (b) A Class A bird hunting preserve license authorizes the person holding the license to possess any number of the species specified in sub. (2) (b) 2. to 7. and requires the person to stock at least 1,001 adult pheasants in the preserve during the license year.

AB684,33,21 (c) A Class B bird hunting preserve license authorizes the person holding the license to possess any number of the species specified in sub. (2) (b) 2. to 7. and prohibits the person from stocking more than 1,000 adult pheasants in the preserve. A holder of a Class B bird hunting preserve license possessing pheasants under the license shall stock a minimum of one adult pheasant per 4 huntable acres that are within the boundaries of the licensed preserve during the license year.

AB684,34,2 (4) Requirements for mallard ducks. A person possessing mallard ducks under the authority of a bird hunting preserve license may possess only mallard ducks that are bred in captivity and shall identify them as required under 50 CFR 21.13 (b). The person shall house the mallard ducks in pens that are covered and maintained to prevent free-roaming wild waterfowl from being attracted to the pens with the mallard ducks that are being bred.

AB684,34,8 (4m) Restrictions on hen pheasants. A person holding a Class B bird hunting preserve license may not allow the hunting or taking of hen pheasants beginning on December 15 of each year and ending on the following March 31 within the boundaries of the licensed preserve if the preserve is located totally or partially within a pheasant management zone, as established by the department, for purposes of s. 29.191.

AB684,34,11 (5) Exemption from hunting restrictions. (a) A person hunting or taking wild birds on a bird hunting preserve that have been stocked on the preserve is exempt from having any approval issued under ch. 29.

AB684,34,15 (b) Except as provided in par. (c), a person hunting or taking wild birds on a bird hunting preserve that have been stocked on the preserve is exempt from any closed season restrictions, bag limits or other conditions or restrictions established by the department under s. 29.014 (1) or 29.192.

AB684,34,17 (c) A person hunting mallard ducks shall comply with rules promulgated by the department under ss. 29.014 and 29.192 governing the hunting of waterfowl.

AB684,34,20 (6) Rules. The department may promulgate rules to establish additional standards, limitations and requirements for bird hunting preserve licenses and for bird hunting preserves.

AB684,34,24 22.20 Dog training licenses. (1) Bird dog training license. (a) The department shall issue a bird dog training license to any qualified individual who is at least 12 years of age who files a proper application and who pays the applicable fee.

AB684,35,4 (b) Except as provided in par. (c), a bird dog training license authorizes the holder of the license to purchase, possess, release into the wild and hunt any of the live captive wild birds specified in s. 22.19 (2) (b) 1. to 6. solely for the purposes of training a dog to retrieve, point, flush and track game.

AB684,35,8 (c) The department may restrict the possessing, releasing and hunting of a species of wild birds specified in par. (b) by persons holding dog training licenses in zones or areas for which the department has by rule imposed special hunting restrictions for that species.

AB684,35,13 (d) A person training a bird dog in a bird hunting preserve for which the hunting of pheasant, quail, mallard ducks bred in captivity or partridge has been authorized under a bird hunting preserve license is exempt from holding a bird dog training license to possess, release into the wild and hunt live captive wild birds for the purposes of training the dog to retrieve, point, flush and track wild birds.

AB684,35,16 (2) Hound dog training license. (a) The department shall issue a hound dog training license to any qualified individual who is at least 12 years of age who files a proper application and who pays the applicable fee.

AB684,35,19 (b) A hound dog training license authorizes the holder of the license to purchase, possess, release into the wild and hunt any of the following live captive wild animals for the purpose of teaching hound dogs to track game:

AB684,35,21 1. Live captive rabbit purchased or otherwise acquired from a person holding a captive wild animal farm license.

AB684,35,22 2. Live captive raccoon.

AB684,35,23 3. Live captive bear of the species Ursus americanus.

AB684,36,2 (3) Dog club training license. (a) The department may issue a dog club training license to an organization that meets the conditions established by the department by rule for dog club training licenses that files a proper application and that pays the applicable fee.

AB684,36,6 (b) A dog club training license authorizes the club or its members to purchase, possess, release into the wild and hunt species of live captive wild animals that are authorized by the department on property owned or leased by the club for the purpose of teaching a bird dog or hound dog to retrieve, point, flush or track game.

AB684,36,10 (4) Rules. The department may promulgate rules to establish additional standards, limitations and requirements for licenses issued under this section. The rules may include standards that provide adequate protection for the wild animals that are authorized under a dog training license.

AB684,36,13 (5) Restrictions. (a) No person may sell wild animals under a license issued under this section, but a person holding a bird dog training license who has been contracted to train a dog may charge for the wild birds used in the training.

AB684,36,15 (b) A license under this section does not authorize organized competitive field events.

AB684,36,18 22.21 Dog trial licenses. (1) Bird dog trial license. (a) The department shall issue a bird dog trial license to any qualified person who files a proper application and who pays the applicable fee.

AB684,36,22 (b) A bird dog trial license authorizes the holder of the license to purchase, possess, release into the wild and hunt any live captive wild bird for any organized competitive field event that involves sporting dog breeds and that is sanctioned, licensed or recognized by a local, state, regional or national dog organization.

AB684,36,24 (2) Hound dog trial license. (a) The department shall issue a hound dog trial license to any person who files a proper application and who pays the applicable fee.

AB684,37,5 (b) A hound dog trial license authorizes the holder of the license to purchase, possess, release into the wild and hunt live captive raccoon, live captive rabbit and live captive bear of the species Ursus americanus for any organized competitive field event that involves sporting dog breeds and that is sanctioned, licensed or recognized by a local, state, regional or national dog organization.

AB684,37,9 (3) Rules. The department may promulgate rules to establish additional standards, limitations and requirements for licenses issued under this section. The rules may include standards that provide adequate protection for the wild animals that are authorized under a dog trial license.

AB684,37,13 22.22 Falconry license. (1) Issuance. (a) The department shall issue a falconry license to any qualified individual who is at least 18 years of age, who has a federal falconry license, who files a proper application and who pays the applicable fee.