Section 481A.62 - Records - reports - inspection1. A holder of a game breeder's license shall keep the records and make the reports required by this section on forms provided by the department. The records shall be open for inspection at any reasonable time by the department or its authorized agents.2. At the time of every sale or conveyance of an animal, animal parts, or products, the licensee shall complete a game breeder's sales receipt on forms provided by the department. The forms shall require the following information: a. The name, address, county, and license number assigned to the breeder.b. The name and address of the purchaser.c. The number, species, sex, and age of the animals or birds conveyed.3.a. Licensees shall maintain business records for all species in an annual report record book. The records shall include the following information: (1) For each animal acquired other than by birth on the licensee's game farm, the sex and species, the date of acquisition, the number acquired, and the name and address of the source from which acquired.(2) For each animal born on the licensee's game farm, the sex, species, date of birth, and number of any band, tag, or tattoo subsequently attached to the animal.(3) For each animal sold or disposed of other than by death the same information required by the game breeder's sales receipt.(4) For each animal which dies, disappears, or is destroyed on the licensee's game farm, the sex, species, date of death, and the number of any band, tag, or tattoo attached to the animal.b. The licensee's copies of the required sales receipts shall be kept with the record book and are considered a part of it.c. Records required by this section shall be entered in the annual report record book within forty-eight hours of the event.4. Each licensee shall file an annual report with the commission on or before January 31. The report shall detail the game breeder's operations during the preceding license year. The original report shall be forwarded to the department and a copy shall be retained in the breeder's file for a period of three years from the date of expiration of the breeder's last license issued. Failure to keep or submit the required records and report are grounds for a refusal to renew a license for the succeeding year.5. An on-site inspection of facilities shall be conducted by an officer of the commission prior to the initial issuance of a game breeder's license. The facilities may be reinspected by an officer of the commission at any reasonable time.6. Any officer of the commission may enter any place where any game bird, game animal, or fur-bearing animal is at the time located, or where it has been kept, or where the carcass of such animal may be, for the purpose of examining it in any way that may be necessary to determine whether it was or is infected with any contagious or infectious disease.7. For the purpose of this section, infectious and contagious disease includes rabies, hoof-and-mouth disease, leptospirosis, blackhead, or any other communicable disease so designated by the commission.8. The commission may regulate or prohibit the importation into the state and exportation from the state of any species of game bird, game animal, or fur-bearing animal, domesticated or not, which in its opinion, for any reason, is determined to be detrimental to the health of animals within or without the state.9. The commission may quarantine or destroy any game bird, game animal, or fur-bearing animal which is found to be infected with any contagious or infectious disease.10. A licensed game breeder or other person having control of any game bird, game animal, or fur-bearing animal shall not knowingly offer for sale, sell, or barter such birds or animals which have an infectious or contagious disease, or allow those birds or animals to run at large or come in contact with any other game birds, game animals, or fur-bearing animals.88 Acts, ch 1216, §21 2011 Acts, ch 25, §143
C39, §1794.024; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §109.62 88 Acts, ch 1216, §21C93, §481A.62 2011 Acts, ch 25, §143Referred to in §805.8B(3)(c)
For applicable scheduled fines, see §805.8B, subsection 3, paragraph c