Within legislative appropriations, the director shall provide for a deerproof hay yard program. The deerproof hay yard program must provide materials and supplies at no cost and construction cost-share assistance to landowners for the establishment of deerproof hay yards to protect crops, hay, or feed on private property with deer depredation problems. A landowner who allows commercial hunting for big game on a majority of acres owned and operated in exchange for compensation and who posts a majority of the acres owned and operated by that person to prohibit big game hunting is not eligible to participate in the deerproof hay yard program. The department shall establish a prorated repayment system over a three-year period. For winter management program purposes of this section, a person may not willfully hunt, harass, chase, pursue, take, attempt to take, possess, transport, ship, convey by common carrier, sell, barter, or exchange a deer except as provided in carrying out practices to alleviate depredations under the private land habitat and access improvement program and elsewhere in this title.

Terms Used In North Dakota Code 20.1-02-28

  • Big game: means deer, moose, elk, bighorn sheep, mountain goats, and antelope. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
  • Crops: means any plant that has been harvested, collected, or stored as livestock feed, fodder, or fuel. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
  • Department: means the game and fish department. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
  • Depredation: means damage to or destruction of private property. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
  • Director: means the director of the department. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
  • hunting: means shooting, shooting at, pursuing, taking, attempting to take, or killing any game animals and game birds; searching for or attempting to locate or flush any game animals and game birds; luring, calling, or attempting to attract game animals and game birds; hiding for the purpose of taking or attempting to take game animals and game birds; and walking, crawling, or advancing toward wildlife while possessing implements or equipment useful in the taking of game animals or game birds. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
  • Person: includes every partnership, association, corporation, and limited liability company. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
  • Property: includes property, real and personal. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Transport: means to cause or attempt to cause a species to be carried or moved into or within the state and includes accepting or receiving the species for transportation or shipment. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
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