Iowa Code § 170.1 (2026)

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. “Chronic wasting disease” means the animal disease afflicting deer, elk, or moose that is a transmissible disease of the nervous system resulting in distinctive lesions in the brain and that belongs to the group of diseases that is known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE).

2. “Department” means the department of agriculture and land stewardship.

3. a. “Farm deer” means an animal belonging to the cervidae family and classified as part of the dama species of the dama genus, commonly referred to as fallow deer; part of the elaphus species of the cervus genus, commonly referred to as red deer or elk; part of the virginianus species of the odocoileus genus, commonly referred to as whitetail; part of the hemionus species of the odocoileus genus, commonly referred to as mule deer; part of the nippon species of the cervus genus, commonly referred to as sika; or part of the alces species of the alces genus, commonly referred to as moose.

b. “Farm deer” does not include any unmarked free-ranging elk, whitetail, or mule deer. “Farm deer” also does not include preserve whitetail which are kept on a hunting preserve as provided in chapter 484C.

4. “Fence” means a boundary fence which encloses farm deer within a landowner’s property as required to be constructed and maintained pursuant to section 170.4.

5. “Landowner” means a person who holds an interest in land, including a titleholder or tenant. 2003 Acts, ch 149, §4, 23; 2005 Acts, ch 139, §1; 2012 Acts, ch 1095, §58, 59; 2024 Acts, ch 1170, §242 Referred to in §10.1, 167.22, 169A.1, 169C.1, 189A.2, 190A.2, 423.1, 481A.1, 481A.134, 481A.135, 673A.3, 715E.1, 716.7, 716.7A, 716.8, 716.13, 716.14, 717.1 \n