2011 Iowa Code
TITLE XI NATURAL RESOURCES
SUBTITLE 6 WILDLIFE
CHAPTER 483A FISHING AND HUNTING LICENSES, CONTRABAND, AND GUNS
483A.1 Licenses — fees.


IA Code § 483A.1 What's This?

483A.1 Licenses fees.

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a person shall not fish, trap, hunt, pursue, catch, kill, take in any manner, use, have possession of, sell, or transport all or a part of any wild animal, bird, game, or fish, the protection and regulation of which is desirable for the conservation of resources of the state, without first obtaining a license for that purpose and the payment of a fee as follows:

1. Residents:

a. Fishing license $ 17.00

b. Fishing license, lifetime, sixty-five
years or older $ 50.50

c. Hunting license $ 17.00

d. Hunting license, lifetime, sixty-five
years or older $ 50.50

e. Deer hunting license $ 25.50

f. Wild turkey hunting license $ 22.50

g. Fur harvester license, sixteen years
or older $ 20.50

h. Fur harvester license, under sixteen
years of age $ 5.50

i. Fur dealer license $225.50

j. Aquaculture unit license $ 25.50

k. Retail bait dealer license $ 30.50

l. Fishing license, seven-day $ 11.50

m. Trout fishing fee $ 10.50

n. Game breeder license $ 15.50

o. Taxidermy license $ 15.50

p. Falconry license $ 20.50

q. Wildlife habitat fee $ 11.00

r. Migratory game bird fee $ 8.00

s. Fishing license, one-day $ 7.50

t. Wholesale bait dealer license $125.00

u. Boundary waters sport trotline
license, annual $ 20.50

2. Nonresidents:

a. Fishing license, annual $ 39.00

b. Fishing license, seven-day $ 30.00

c. Hunting license, eighteen years of
age or older $110.00

d. Hunting license, under eighteen
years of age $ 30.00

e. Deer hunting license, antlered or
any sex deer $295.00

f. Preference point issued under
section 483A.7, subsection 3,
paragraph b , or section 483A.8,
subsection 3, paragraph e $ 50.00

g. Deer hunting license, antlerless
deer only, required with the purchase
of an antlered or any sex deer hunting
license $125.00

h. Deer hunting license, antlerless
deer only $225.00

i. Holiday deer hunting license
issued under section 483A.8, subsection 6,
antlerless deer only $ 75.00

j. Wild turkey hunting license $100.00

k. Fur harvester license $200.00

l. Fur dealer license $501.00

m. Location permit for fur dealers $ 56.00

n. Aquaculture unit license $ 56.00

o. Retail bait dealer license or the $125.00
amount for the same type of license
in the nonresident s state,
is greater

p. Trout fishing fee $ 13.00

q. Game breeder license $ 26.00

r. Taxidermy license $ 26.00

s. Falconry license $ 26.00

t. Wildlife habitat fee $ 11.00

u. Migratory game bird fee $ 8.00

v. Fishing license, three-day $ 15.50

w. Wholesale bait dealer license $250.00
or the amount for the same type of
license in the nonresident s state,
whichever is greater

x. Fishing license, one-day $ 8.50

y. Boundary waters sport trotline
license, annual $ 40.50

[S13, §2563-a2, -o, -p; SS15, §2547-a, 2562-b, 2563-a1; C24, §1706, 1718, 1719, 1748, 1752, 1756, 1779; C27, §1706, 1718, 1719, 1719-a1, 1748, 1752, 1756, 1779; C31, §1706, 1718, 1718-c1, 1719, 1719-a1, 1748, 1752, 1756, 1766-c3, 1779; C35, §1794-e1; C39, §1794.082; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §110.1]

84 Acts, ch 1199, §2; 84 Acts, ch 1260, §2; 86 Acts, ch 1114, §1; 86 Acts, ch 1141, §17; 86 Acts, ch 1240, §1; 89 Acts, ch 90, §2; 89 Acts, ch 237, §1; 89 Acts, ch 238, §1; 91 Acts, ch 237, §3; 92 Acts, ch 1216, §10, 11

C93, §483A.1

95 Acts, ch 12, §1; 95 Acts, ch 46, §2; 98 Acts, ch 1199, §5, 27; 98 Acts, ch 1223, §30; 2001 Acts, ch 137, §5; 2001 Acts, ch 148, §1 3, 9; 2002 Acts, ch 1141, §1; 2003 Acts, ch 120, §1 4, 6; 2003 Acts, ch 152, §1 3, 6; 2005 Acts, ch 139, §3; 2007 Acts, ch 194, §1, 2; 2009 Acts, ch 144, §32, 33; 2009 Acts, ch 179, §147, 214, 215, 217

Commercial fishing licenses, see §482.4

For applicable scheduled fines, see §805.8B, subsection 3, paragraph o

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