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SF 943 Senate Long Description

5E Expanding authorization for compensation for crop, pasture or fence damage caused by elk; modifying containment facility; modifying aquaculture regulation, establishing fish sample collecting and training; modifying the definitions of certain all-terrain vehicles; requiring the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to prepare fish and wildlife management plans; clarifying infested water bait harvest; modifying game bird, small game, undressed bird, unprotected bird, and wild animals definitions; modifying game and fish provisions; expanding department of natural resources (DNR) game and fish lottery and drawing preferences for qualified service members (veterans) to residents in receipt of a purple heart medal and veterans with service-connected disabilities; permitting deer killed by a motor vehicle to be kept by the driver under certain conditions; prohibiting parents and legal guardians from allowing unlicensed minors to hunt; modifying conditions when a hunter can take deer by using a muzzleloader with a scope; modifying hunting provisions, removing deer, moose and elk stand height restrictions; modifying bear hunting license drawing provisions; allowing use of a drum while baiting bear on private land; allowing the DNR commissioner to authorize taking elk causing damage or nuisance, clarifying gray wolf open season definition; authorizing road authorities to remove or kill beavers associated with lodges, requiring conservation officer notification, permitting local beaver control program implementation design to reduce incident count, allowing a bounty for lawful taking; modifying fishing provisions; limiting the number of experimental and special management waters designated for northern pike; expanding DNR game and fish lottery and drawing preferences for qualified service members (veterans) to residents in receipt of a purple heart medal and veterans with service-connected disabilities; requiring certification that frozen or dead fish bait are disease free; modifying board of water and soil resources (BWSR) powers and duties; modifying the pasture exemption from feedlot requirements by including certain agricultural land in the pasture definition and specifying conditions; allowing local government units to offer by resolution bounties on coyotes; establishing immunity for individuals grazing livestock on state lands under certain circumstances; specifying duties and liability for land leased to the state for state-sponsored walk-in access programs; amending state rules to allow an option for game farm licenses to use approved report and sales receipt formats requiring shallow lakes management report; requiring the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to amend rules to allow spear fishing on Cass Lake; modifying certain deer hunting rules; authorizing consumptive use of water in Cook county for snowmaking and potable water purposes; extending the interest in lands occupied by the Minnesota zoo in Dakota county, compliance requirement; repealing fish and wildlife resources management, strategic, long-range, and operational plans, intensive, lottery, and managed deer areas, turkey licenses application and eligibility spring season, moose and elk stand restrictions and fishing contests without a permit
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