Modifying certain provisions regulating the operation of off highway vehicles; requiring the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to maintain and publicize a toll free telephone number allowing citizens to obtain tape recorded trail conditions information and to report complaints about or violations by operators of off highway vehicles and damages caused by all-terrain vehicles and trail safety concerns; imposing a speed limit in certain areas; requiring certain mufflers on off highway vehicles and regulating the amount of noise emission; imposing criminal penalties for certain off highway vehicle regulation violations; subjecting off highway vehicles to seizure and forfeiture under certain conditions, specifying certain notice requirements and providing for disposition or redemption of forfeited vehicles; specifying certain district court administrator violation recordkeeping requirements, requiring forwarding of conviction reports to the commissioner of public safety for recording on driving records; increasing the civil penalties for property damage; extending and expanding authorized use of the off highway vehicle damage account to the repair or restoration of driveways damaged from legal operation of the vehicles within public road rights-of-way, eliminating certain responsibilities of applicants and certain funds transfer requirements of the commissioner of finance; removing trails from the definitions of off road and off road vehicle staging area; clarifying certain general requirements for off road vehicle registration; modifying certain operation restrictions, prohibiting operation on forest lands; eliminating the requirement for unrefunded gasoline tax attributable to off road vehicle use to be credited to the off road vehicle account in the natural resources fund; requiring registration plates on ATVs; requiring registration revocation for conviction of trespassing while operating off highway motorcycles, off-road vehicles or ATVs under the game and fish law; specifying certain reference deletion and insertion instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing certain noncriminal penalty provisions
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