2E Relating to game and fish; modifying critical habitat private sector matching account requirements; defining certain hunting terms; requiring the commissioner of finance to credit to the game and fish account money received from income from lands acquired by the state for game and fish purposes or by purchase or gift; providing for and modifying disposition of certain revenue; providing for resident petition against designation of a game refuges on private land; modifying restrictions on motorized watercraft and recreational vehicles in wildlife management areas; modifying procedures and conditions for the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to confiscate property used in game and fish law violations, requiring commissioner reimbursement for sold, lost, or damaged property under certain conditions; providing for inspection of equipment used to take wild animals; authorizing the commissioner to provide for special hunts for military personnel under certain conditions; modifying certain penalty and fee amounts; modifying certain game license provisions relating to resident and nonresident hunting licenses; reducing the resident trapping license fees for senior citizens; allowing moving of carcasses from kill site without tagging under certain conditions; modifying certain transportation of fish tagging and registration requirements; modifying certain possession of firearms provisions for persons under a certain age, specifying certain parent and guardian duties; regulating the collecting of antler sheds; modifying certain all season deer license and limits requirements; establishing firearms use areas, defining shotgun use and legal firearms areas; modifying certain provisions for fishing contests relating to the permit application process, limits on number of fishing contests and permit restrictions; modifying a certain provisions relating to the transporting and stocking of fish and including shelters in the provision prohibiting ice or dark houses on the ice on state waters between certain hours after a certain date; extending the season for spear fishing; authorizing county boards to offer a bounty for taking coyote; requiring the board of water and soil resources (BOWSR) to convene a task force to address a certain public drainage ditch buffer study recommendations and findings; providing for a moratorium on licensing or use of new public waters for aquaculture, authorizing the DNR to permit certain exceptions; repealing certain restrictions for nonresident fish houses
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