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SF 1288 Senate Long Description

E Relating to game and fish; modifying certain separate selection criteria for moose and turkey licenses; modifying the provision providing for the issuance of licenses without a fee to owners or tenants of agricultural land for deer hunting purposes; extending the take a kid fishing weekend; authorizing the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to issue provisional firearms safety certificates to persons satisfactorily completing the classroom portion of the firearms safety course and unable to pass the written or alternate format exam portion due to mental retardation or a related condition upon recommendation of the course instructor and providing for the issuance of firearms hunting licenses to persons issued provisional safety certificates; authorizing the taking of big game with a .45 Winchester magnum cartridge; modifying the requirement for the transport of archery bows in the trunk of a motor vehicle; exempting trappers from blaze orange clothing requirements; providing for all season buck licenses, fee; expanding the authority of the commissioner to designate lakes and streams as experimental waters; specifying certain criteria for the conduct of fishing contests without a permit, requiring a permit without a fee for fishing contests not meeting the criteria, prescribing the application process, limiting the number of contests allowed on certain smaller lakes and authorizing the commissioner to set certain permit restrictions; modifying the authority of anglers to use lighted fishing lures; appropriating money to the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for transfer to the university of Minnesota Duluth to conduct an inventory of state owned land located within the boundary waters canoe area (BWCA) to provide the legislature and state officers with more precise information relating to the nature, extent and value of the land, defining state owned land and specifying certain inventory content requirements and certain duties of the commissioner, requesting a university report to the legislature by a certain date (ja)