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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 387
BY SENATOR WARD
HUNTERS/HUNTING. Provides for the positive evidence of sex identification of deer and
turkey. (8/1/12)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 56:125(B), relative to hunting; to provide certain requirements2
for the possession of game quadrapeds; to provide for the positive evidence of sex3
identification of deer and turkey; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 56:125(B) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 6
ยง125. Possession of game quadrupeds; tags; deer carcasses 7
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B. Positive evidence of sex identification, including the head or sex organs,9
shall remain on any deer taken or killed within the state of Louisiana, or on all turkey10
taken or killed during any special gobbler season when killing of turkey hens is11
prohibited, so long as such deer or turkey is kept in camp or field, or is in route to the12
domicile of its possessor, or until such deer or turkey has been stored at the domicile13
of its possessor or divided at a cold storage facility and has thus become identifiable14
as food rather than as wild game. Deer and turkey may be divided in camp or field15
but, in the event of such division, each portion shall be identified by the name,16
address, and license number of the person killing it and the sex of the animal;17 SB NO. 387
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however, it is not necessary to affix the license number as required above to portions1
cut from the carcass immediately prior to being consumed in camp.2
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Michelle Broussard-Johnson.
DIGEST
Ward (SB 387)
Present law provides that positive evidence of sex identification, including the head, shall
remain on any deer taken or killed within Louisiana or on any turkey taken or killed during
any special gobbler season when killing of turkey hens is prohibited.
Proposed law retain present law and allows the sex organs to be used as positive evidence
of sex identification.
Effective August 1, 2012
(Amends R.S. 56:125(B))