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HF 1487 Senate Long Description

Relating to recreation; modifying certain provisions rendered obsolete by the electronic licensing system; eliminating the authority of the state auditor to examine game and fish funds; eliminating the signature requirement for off-highway motorcycle or vehicle, all-terrain vehicle or snowmobile registration applications, requiring the signature on the registration card; authorizing use of money in the snowmobile trails and enforcement account for snowmobile and ATV, DWI enforcement; clarifying certain snowmobile safety training and certification requirements; imposing the responsibility for removal of submerged vehicles on the owner of the vehicle, exceptions, specifying a time limit for removal and certain reporting requirements, requiring removal by the local government unit with jurisdiction over the body of water upon owner failure to remove, subjecting the owner to a civil penalty; modifying certain requirements for the licensing and titling of watercraft; requiring a signature on the license in lieu of the application and eliminating the requirement for consecutive renewal to retain the same license number; providing for the recognition of certificates of title from other jurisdictions and modifying certain watercraft description requirements; including sale of live animals through auctions or brokers in valid game farm licensee sales; voiding game and fish licenses of persons convicted of assisting in the illegal taking, transportation or possession of wild animals as a hunting or angling guide; creating an exception to the animal hide tanning or raw furs dressing license requirement; authorizing the issuance of free angling or spearing licenses to certain disabled senior citizens; expanding a certain provision allowing the sale of inedible portions of game; clarifying the restriction on hunting from a motor vehicle; modifying certain ice shelter identification requirements, requiring fish or dark houses left on the ice overnight to be marked with reflective material; allowing hunting and fishing restrictions in aquatic management areas or on lands with angling easements; repealing the prohibitions on fleeing a peace officer on an off-highway motorcycle or vehicle (Ch. 185, 2001)