556H.1 Unclaimed deer venison held by a licensed processing establishment.
All deer venison deposited with an establishment licensed pursuant to chapter 189A, which remains unclaimed for a period of two months after the establishment has attempted to contact the deer venison owner at least once by ordinary mail at the owner’s last known mailing address, shall be presumed to be abandoned. The establishment may dispose of the abandoned deer venison by donating the deer venison to a local nonprofit, charitable organization. For purposes of this section, the term “deer” means the Cervidae or game deer excluding any farm deer as defined in section 481A.1, subsection 21, paragraph “h”, and all donated deer venison shall include game deer venison only and shall not be processed as a multispecies meat food product pursuant to chapter 189A.
2001 Acts, ch 23, §1
Donations of perishable food, see chapter 672