HF 3355

1st Engrossment - 86th Legislature (2009 - 2010) Posted on 03/11/2010 10:43am

A bill for an act
relating to natural resources; requiring a person to drain water from watercraft
before transportation on public roads; modifying civil penalties; amending
Minnesota Statutes 2008, sections 84D.10, by adding a subdivision; 84D.13,
subdivision 5.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 84D.10, is amended by adding a
subdivision to read:

new text begin Subd. 4. new text end

new text begin Persons leaving public waters. new text end

new text begin A person leaving waters of the state must
drain bait containers, other boating-related equipment holding water excluding marine
sanitary systems, and live wells and bilges by removing the drain plug before transporting
the watercraft and associated equipment on public roads. Drain plugs, bailers, valves, or
other devices used to control the draining of water from ballast tanks, bilges, and live
wells must be removed or opened while transporting watercraft on a public road. Marine
sanitary systems are excluded from this requirement.
new text end

Sec. 2.

Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 84D.13, subdivision 5, is amended to read:

Subd. 5.

Civil penalties.

A civil citation issued under this section must impose
the following penalty amounts:

(1) for transporting aquatic macrophytes on a forest road as defined by section
89.001, subdivision 14, road or highway as defined by section 160.02, subdivision 26, or
any other public road, $50;

(2) for placing or attempting to place into waters of the state a watercraft, a trailer, or
aquatic plant harvesting equipment that has aquatic macrophytes attached, $100;

(3) for unlawfully possessing or transporting a prohibited invasive species other
than an aquatic macrophyte, $250;

(4) for placing or attempting to place into waters of the state a watercraft, a trailer, or
aquatic plant harvesting equipment that has prohibited invasive species attached when
the waters are not designated by the commissioner as being infested with that invasive
species, $500 for the first offense and $1,000 for each subsequent offense;

(5) for intentionally damaging, moving, removing, or sinking a buoy marking, as
prescribed by rule, Eurasian water milfoil, $100;

(6) for failing to drain water deleted text begin , as required by rule, deleted text end from watercraft and equipment
before leaving deleted text begin designated zebra mussel, spiny water flea, or other invasive plankton
infested deleted text end waters new text begin of the state new text end , deleted text begin $50 deleted text end new text begin $250 new text end ; and

(7) for transporting infested water off riparian property without a permit as required
by rule, $200.