2E Relating to natural resources

ARTICLE 1 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT POLICY

Providing for an outdoor lighting fixtures model ordinance, specifying certain duties of the commissioner of administration; modifying commissioner of natural resources (DNR) state trail acquisition authority; modifying restrictions for off highway vehicle use on state forest lands, specifying certain mapped trails use restrictions; providing an exception for certain managed forest access routes; modifying off highway motorcycles general registration requirements; exempting snowmobiles used to groom a state or grant in aid trail from registration and state trail sticker requirements; modifying all terrain vehicle (ATV) education and training requirements; modifying all terrain vehicle (ATV) operating provisions; requiring youthful passengers and operators to wear
helmets; requiring class 2 operators and passengers to wear seat belts; requiring parental authorization for operation under a certain age; modifying passenger regulations; opening closed forests to off trail snowmobiles, exception; limiting class 2 operation to forest roads and trails on department of natural resources (DNR) lands; clarifying class 1 and 2 operation in ditches, banks and certain public roads; modifying the Willard Munger trail system (Gateway, Boundary, Browns Creek and Alex Laveau trails) in Chisago, Ramsey, Pine, St. Louis, Carlton and Washington counties; extending the Minnesota river trail by adding a loop extension between Fort Ridgely state park and the cities of Redwood Falls and Sleepy Eye and a segment connecting the cities of Granite Falls and Montevideo; clarifying state park permit display requirements; modifying certain military personnel on leave provisions relating to park permits; modifying the game bird definition; defining immediately released or returned to water fish; modifying taking protected animals damaging property provisions; authorizing the commissioner to prescribe rules for taking Canada geese; prohibiting convictions for persons in violation of license possession requirements under certain conditions, permitting certain license fee refunds and replacements; modifying the license year for fishing, angling, nonresident fishing, resident fish house and dark house and nonresident fish house licenses; imposing a penalty for taking wild animals during time privileges suspension; modifying licensing requirements for owners or tenants of agricultural land to take antlerless deer; adding an additional take a kid fishing weekend; authorizing residents under a certain age possessing an apprentice hunter validation and accompanied by a parent or guardian to take small game; increasing the number of deer allowed to be taken with an all season license; specifying bear hunting guides restrictions; eliminating the prohibition for using a commercial cold storage warehouse for protected wild animals; eliminating the prohibition of transporting the flesh of beaver, raccoon, rabbits and hare out of state; exempting veterans from the range and shooting exercise portion of the required course of instruction for the firearms safety certificate under certain conditions; providing for an apprentice hunter certificate as a condition for obtaining an annual license to take wild animals; specifying apprentice hunter validation requirements; modifying big game ammunition and bow weight requirements; providing for crossbow hunting during firearms deer season; modifying certain hunting provisions relating to hunting restrictions between evening and morning and all season deer licenses; exempting remote controlled animal noise callers from the general prohibition of hunters using radios to take game animals; restricting the use of night vision goggles in hunting wild animals; removing the ban against the use of smokeless gunpowder in muzzle loaders during muzzle loader deer hunting season; modifying shotgun use areas; specifying certain deer hunting baiting prohibitions; modifying information requirements for traps and snares; authorizing the commissioner to prescribe restrictions on fishing seasons, limits or methods on specific bodies of water; modifying prohibitions for the use of artificial lights to take fish; imposing civil penalties on owners of fish houses unlawfully left on the ice; requiring reporting of the taking of Asian carp; reducing the number of commercial fishing licenses issued for lake Superior; modifying types of fish taken by pound nets and trap nets and clarifying the area of the lake; modifying the type of fish to be taken by operators with special permits; requiring the commissioner of natural resources to provide for taking of lake Superior lake trout by licensed commercial operators in certain zones for expanded assessment and sale; modifying certain wetland replacement siting requirements; specifying certain water supply plan requirements for public water suppliers, modifying contested case hearing notices requirements; specifying certain duties of the metropolitan council for planning activities addressing water supply needs; "Uniform Environmental Covenants Act", defining certain terms, providing for the nature of rights under environmental covenants; specifying contents of environmental covenants; providing for the validity and the effect of environmental covenants on other instruments; providing for the relationship to other land use law; specifying notice and recording requirements; providing for the duration of environmental covenants, providing for modification or termination by administrative or court action; providing for the amendment or termination of environmental covenants by consent; providing for enforcement of environmental covenants; providing for uniformity of application and construction; providing for relation to federal electronic signatures in global and national commerce act; providing for recovery of litigation costs and expense; modifying commissioner of agriculture acquisition of property provisions to conform to the act; exempting from the individual sewage treatment system mandatory licensing program designers, installers, inspectors and system operators of certain smaller systems; updating the motor vehicle race events noise standards exemption; restricting phosphorus content in dishwasher detergent, exception for commercial or institutional dishwashing; authorizing counties to sell certain real property owned in fee simple; specifying certain restrictions and notice requirements; modifying a pollution control agency (PCA) wastewater phosphorous discharge rule provision effective date; modifying certain prior appropriations to the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for ecological services; authorizing the commissioner to use the good clause exemption to amend certain rules; requiring report to the legislature by a certain date on modifying the winter lake trout season; requiring the commissioner to create a walk in public access plan to encourage private land owners to make land available to the public for hunting and fishing; requiring the commissioner to conduct a dietary study of the cormorant population on Lake of the Woods; specifying certain public meetings requirements for construction of mooring facilities in the north central lakes area; authorizing the appointment of legislative members to the game and fish budgetary oversight committee; requiring reports to the legislature by certain dates on the status of the Leech Lake fishery and on proposed aquatic plant management rule changes; providing for renaming Big Island on Pelican Lake in St. Louis county; requiring the director of Explore Minnesota tourism to develop a voluntary Minnesota travel green program; requiring certain counties to establish as a pilot program an appeals board of zoning adjustment to review determinations made by the board of zoning adjustment; the PCA to report to environmental policy legislative committees on issues relating to the licensing of individual sewage treatment systems (ISTS); repealing certain provisions relating to class 2 vehicle operation on public lands, fish buyers license fees, spears prohibitions while angling in fish houses or dark houses, and a certain trail designation

ARTICLE 2 - STATE LANDS

Relating to state lands; increasing the land value threshold for the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to acquire land without appraisal; specifying a land value for transaction incentive; requiring landowner disclosure of property value prior to offer; modifying severed mineral interest recording requirements, providing an exemption for forfeiture of a severed mineral interest; providing an addition and deletion to Flandrau state park in Brown county and an addition to Whitewater state park in Winona county; authorizing and providing for the public sale of certain surplus state land bordering public water in Aitkin, Cook, Nicollet, Red Lake and St. Louis counties, public sale of certain consolidated conservation land bordering public water in Aitkin county, private sale of certain consolidated conservation land in Aitkin county, public sale of consolidated conservation land in Aitkin county, conveyance of certain surplus state land bordering public water in Beltrami county, exchange of land bordering public waters in Beltrami county; private sale of certain surplus state land bordering public water in Cass, Hennepin and Washington counties, private sales of tax forfeited land bordering public water in Crow Wing, Lake and St. Louis counties; conveyance of tax forfeited land bordering public water in Dakota county; private sales of certain surplus state land in Hennepin, Kittson, Lake and St. Louis counties, public or private sale of certain surplus state land bordering public water in Kittson county, a certain land exchange in St. Louis county, public sale of tax-forfeited land bordering public water in St. Louis County, private sale of tax-forfeited land in St. Louis county, use of land on Sparta Beach in the city of Gilbert in St. Louis county, and authorizing the Lake County board to suspend the apportionment of the balance of net proceeds from tax-forfeited lands and retain the net proceeds for reimbursement to the county for the Clair A. Nelson memorial forest
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