29.871 (14) (b) 6. Each The permittee under par. (b) shall file a verified report to with the department within 30 days after the expiration of the permit containing such information regarding the operations under the permit as the department requires on forms furnished in the form required by the department.

29.873 Domestic fur-bearing animal farms. The breeding, raising and producing in captivity, and the marketing, by the producer, of foxes, fitch, nutria, marten, fisher, mink, chinchilla, rabbit or caracul, as live animals, or as animal pelts or carcasses shall be deemed considered an agricultural pursuit, and all such animals so raised in captivity shall be deemed considered domestic animals, subject to all the laws of the state with reference to possession, ownership and taxation as are at any time applicable to domestic animals. All persons engaged in the foregoing activities are farmers and engaged in farming for all statutory purposes.

29.875 Disposal of escaped deer. (1) The department may seize and dispose of or may authorize the disposal of any deer that has escaped from land licensed under s. 29.574 29.867 or 29.578 29.871 or owned by a person registered under s. 95.55 if the escaped deer has traveled more than 3 miles from the land or if the licensee or person has not had the deer returned to the land within 72 hours of the discovery of the escape.

(2) Notwithstanding sub. (1), the department of natural resources may dispose of the deer immediately if the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection determines that the deer poses a risk to public safety or to the health of other domestic or wild animals.

29.877 (2m) The department may grant issue licenses for wildlife exhibits which are defined as any place where one or more live wild animals are kept in captivity for the purpose of exhibition or for advertising purposes. The and shall prescribe the form of the application and license shall be prescribed by the department.

248,634 Section 634 . 29.585 (2) (a) of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, is renumbered 29.877 (2) (intro.) and amended to read:

29.877 (2) (intro.) In this section, “wild:

(a) “Wild animal" means any mammal, fish or bird of a wild nature as distinguished from domestic animals under the common law or under the statutes whether or not the mammal, fish or bird was bred or reared in captivity, but does not include deer of the genus dama, cervus or rangifer or farm-raised fish.

29.877 (2) (b) “Wildlife exhibit" means any place where live wild animals are kept in captivity for the purpose of exhibition or for advertising purposes, but does not include the exhibition of any live wild animal by any educational institution, state department agency, public zoo, park or garden, circus or theatrical exhibition or any such exhibition sponsored by any organization with the approval of the department.

(3) No wildlife exhibition exhibit license shall may be granted by the department until it is satisfied that the provisions for housing and caring for such the wild animals and for protecting the public are proper and adequate and in accordance with the standards therefor established by the department.

(4) The department shall promulgate and enforce rules for the housing, care, treatment, feeding and sanitation of wild animals kept in wildlife exhibits and for the protection of the public from injury by the wild animals.

(5) No person may keep any live wild animal in captivity for the purpose of exhibition or for advertising purposes or have any wild animal in his or her custody or under his or her control for such purpose maintain a wildlife exhibit, unless the person has a wildlife exhibit license is issued to the person by the department. A wildlife exhibit license is required in addition to any game bird and animal farm or fur farm license or deer farm license under s. 29.578 that is required for the possession, breeding, propagating or dealing of these wild animals if these farms are wildlife exhibits as defined under sub. (1).

(6) Each licensee shall file an annual, verified a report with the department within 30 days after the expiration of such the license containing such information on the operation of the wildlife exhibit as the department may require and on forms furnished by the department.

29.879 (1) The department has the authority to may examine all lands, together with and buildings, licensed as game bird and animal farms, deer farms or, fur farms or wildlife exhibits to determine that all whether wild animals held in captivity on such licensed farms are treated in a humane manner and confined under sanitary conditions with proper and adequate housing, care and food.

(2) The department may order any licensee to comply with standards prescribed in such the order for the housing, care, treatment, feeding and sanitation of wild animals held in captivity by the licensee.

(3) Any such The licensee who fails to shall comply with such the order of the department within 10 days of its issuance will be subject to penalties provided in s. 29.99.

248,637 Section 637 . 29.59 (title) and (1) (intro.) and (a) of the statutes are renumbered 29.885 (title) and (1) (intro.) and (a).

Note: The definition of “daylight hours" is repealed and the substance of the definition is moved to current s. 29.59 (3) (c) (intro.), the only occurrence of that term.