(13) The department or its wardens shall have the right and power to may inspect such deer farms or the books records of such deer farms at any and all times when they may think the need requires it time.

29.871 (14) (a) No person may barter, sell or otherwise deal in the carcasses of deer taken from a deer farm unless the person obtains a deer farm sales license from the department. Each carcass of this type of deer that is sold by a person under this license is required to have a distinctive tag attached to it. The department shall issue these furnish deer farm sales tags at cost.

248,626 Section 626 . 29.578 (14) (am) of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 35, is renumbered 29.871 (14) (am) and amended to read:

29.871 (14) (am) The department may issue special retail deer sale permits authorizing a person to sell at retail white-tailed deer venison in the carcass from a deer lawfully killed under this section to any retailer of meats if the venison is inspected under s. 97.42.

29.871 (14) (b) Any The department may issue a venison serving permit authorizing a person may to serve venison obtained from a deer farm licensed under this section if the person has a venison serving permit from the department. The application for this permit shall be in the form and include the information the department requires. If the The department after investigation is satisfied that the application is satisfactory it shall may issue a venison serving permit conditioned as follows:

2. It shall be exhibited in a conspicuous place in the premises where such venison is retained and served.

3. It shall contain the name and address of the applicant together with, the name and address of the premises where the venison will be retained and served, together with the source of the venison, and the sex, approximate weight and deer farm tag numbers of the carcass. The deer farm tag may be removed from a gutted carcass at the time of butchering, but the person who killed or obtained the deer shall retain the tag until the venison is consumed.

4. The permittee agrees to shall record immediately upon possession all additional venison, purchased, possessed or served during under the permit period in the space provided therefor on the permit.

5. The permittee agrees that the department or its wardens shall have the right to may inspect the premises where such venison is retained or served and that the venison will be inspected under s. 97.42.

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.