29.541 Serving of game to guests. (1) PROHIBITION. (a) Except as authorized under s. 29.934 (2) or 97.305, no innkeeper, manager or steward of any restaurant, club, hotel, boarding house, tavern, logging camp or mining camp may sell, barter, serve or give, or cause to be sold, bartered, served or given, to its guests or boarders any of the following: 1. The meat of any deer, elk, bear, squirrel, game bird, or game fish taken from inland waters at any time. 2. The meat of any wild animal not listed in subd. 1., during the closed season for the wild animal, whether the meat is of a wild animal lawfully or unlawfully taken within or without the state. (b) The department may issue permits authorizing the serving of lawfully taken and possessed wild animals at any time. (2) FREE LUNCH. The giving, offering, or affording opportunity to take free lunch in any of the places named in sub. (1) is embraced within the prohibitions of sub. (1). (3) EXEMPTION. This section does not apply to the meat from farm-raised deer, farm-raised fish, or farm-raised game birds or to meat that is subject to regulation under s. 169.14. History: 1975 c. 360; 1991 a. 269; 1995 a. 79; 1997 a. 27; 1997 a. 248 ss. 546 to 553; Stats. 1997 s. 29.541; 2001 a. 56, 109; 2005 a. 394; 2007 a. 20; 2015 a. 55.
SUBCHAPTER VII APPROVAL FEES AND EFFECTIVE PERIODS Processing fee. (1) Except as provided in sub. (3), if the department issues any of the following approvals, a nonrefundable processing fee, in addition to any other fee imposed under s. 29.563, shall be collected for each approval: (a) Hunter’s choice deer hunting permit. (am) Bonus deer hunting permit. (b) Bobcat hunting and trapping permit. (c) Otter trapping permit. (d) Fisher trapping permit. (e) Canada goose hunting permit. (f) Wild turkey hunting license. (g) Sharp-tailed grouse hunting permit. (h) Class A bear license. (hm) Elk hunting license. (hr) Wolf harvesting license. (i) Sturgeon fishing permit. (2) If a person applies jointly for a hunter’s choice deer hunting permit and a bonus deer hunting permit, the person shall pay a single processing fee. A person who applies for a bonus deer hunting permit is exempt from paying an additional processing fee if the person has already applied for a hunter’s choice deer hunting permit for the same season. If the department authorizes the issuing of more than one bonus deer hunting permit to a person in a single season under s. 29.181 (2) or (2m), the person is exempt from paying an additional processing fee for an application for the 2nd or subsequent bonus deer hunting permit. (3) The department may waive the processing fee for the approvals specified in sub. (1) (a), (am) and (c) to (g) for persons who apply for or are holders of resident conservation patron licenses and nonresident conservation patron licenses. History: 1997 a. 248 ss. 143 to 149; 2001 a. 109; 2011 a. 169.