as introduced - 81st Legislature (1999 - 2000) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am
1.1 A bill for an act 1.2 relating to game and fish; exempting archery bows used 1.3 for bowfishing from casing requirement; amending 1.4 Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 97B.051; proposing 1.5 coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 97C. 1.6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 1.7 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 97B.051, is 1.8 amended to read: 1.9 97B.051 [TRANSPORTATION OF ARCHERY BOWS.] 1.10 Except as specified under section 97C.376, a person may not 1.11 transport an archery bow in a motor vehicle unless the bow is: 1.12 (1) unstrung; 1.13 (2) completely contained in a case; or 1.14 (3) in the closed trunk of a motor vehicle. 1.15 Sec. 2. [97C.376] [BOWFISHING EXEMPTION.] 1.16 A person using an archery bow used exclusively to harvest 1.17 rough fish and having an attached bowfishing reel and tethered 1.18 arrow with a barbed-fish point is exempt from section 97B.051 1.19 when the bow is being used in a motorboat for the pursuit of 1.20 legal rough fish species.