Legislative Session number- 89

Bill Name: SF1303

3E Relating to natural resources; clarifying land condemnation limits and owner
rights; allowing gizzard shad bait harvest from certain infested waters;
extending expiration of citizen oversight committees; allowing posting
restrictions on public access to active disease areas; clarifying compliance
with federal law for information or telecommunications technology projects
appropriations and assets; modifying and conforming certain enforcement
provisions; modifying provisions to take, possess, and transport wild animals;
modifying separate selection of eligible turkey licensees; allowing residents of
veterans homes to take antlerless deer without a permit; prohibiting certain
feral swine activities and imposing penalties; allowing scopes on muzzleloading
firearms for persons over the age of 60; modifying penalty for certain firearms
possession restricted in deer zones; providing an exception for shining lights
for tracking bears; allowing use of radio equipment to take unprotected animals;
allowing residents age 80 or over to take deer of either sex; prohibiting the
placement of feed to attract bears; including all game bird species for the use
of nonlethal hazing for property damage; allowing possession of firearms in
turkey hunting under certain conditions; restricting use of body-gripping traps
near public roads or trails; allowing use of a lottery system for taking fisher,
marten and bobcat; requiring written permission for placing traps or snares on
private land; clarifying the checking of body gripping traps; expanding
commissioner authority for seasonal adjustments for state managed waters of
Upper Red Lake; modifying minnow healers and helpers provisions; modifying
rulemaking for lifting spearing bans and northern pike regulations; allowing the
issuance of youth bear license refunds; establishing a license pilot program for
the series 300 deer permit areas; modifying seizures of licenses; providing
criminal penalties; specifying revisor's instructions; expanding expedited
rulemaking authority; repealing muskrat farms license fees
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