7E Relating to natural resources; modifying rulemaking authority of the commissioner relating to the need to adjust season variables on an annual basis based upon current biological and harvest data; providing for federal law compliance relating to power drive mobility devices under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA); authorizing the commissioner to allow critically ill persons to purchase once in a lifetime hunting licenses under certain conditions; providing all-terrain vehicle (ATV) registration and watercraft licensing requirement exemptions for ATVs and watercraft registered by Indian tribal governments to members; requiring the commissioner to designate a no registration weekend per year for state and grant-in-aid ATV vehicle trails; extending the age for which ATV riders may receive a safety certificate; specifying conditions for ATV operation by youthful persons between certain ages; modifying nonresident ATV state trail pass requirements; allowing ATV operation within certain areas of public road right-of-way of trunk highways under certain conditions; modifying certain provisions relating to invasive species; expanding the service provider definition to include persons who decontaminate water; requiring commercial licensees to remove aquatic macrophytes before placing equipment into state waters, a permit to transport aquatic macrophytes, and offender training; exempting certain persons transporting water from noninfested surface water bodies from regulation; allowing mandatory inspection stations for individual water bodies, the commissioner to issue permits allowing aquatic macrophyte transport to certain locations, and allowing special permits; exempting the Minnesota zoo board from animal health board and game and fish provisions regarding wild animals; requiring the zoo board to request a board of animal health or department of natural resources (DNR) permit for exemptions; defining rice boat; modifying the definition of watercraft; defining waterfowl boat; providing watercraft license exemptions for approved federally recognized Indian tribes; permitting cooperative farming agreements for aquatic management areas; clarifying certain license seizure provisions relating to the taking of big game animals; authorizing the commissioner upon request to issue a permanent card for free deer licenses and the taking of small game for permanently disabled veterans; modifying Take a Kid Fishing Weekends provisions; authorizing resident fish spearing for ages 16 or 17; authorizing nonresidents under age 16 to obtain a small game license, specifying certain apprentice hunter validation requirements; for nonresidents age 16 or under; modifying big game licenses for residents and nonresidents under age 16; allowing nonresident youth spearing; modifying hunting fees for young hunters; modifying and expanding resident and nonresident hunting license fees for young hunters; modifying Minnesota resident sporting licenses; modifying issuing fees for persons authorized to sell licenses; modifying apprentice hunter validation requirements; modifying certain motor vehicle restrictions; expanding the authority of the commissioner to establish special hunts; authorizing the commissioner to adopt rules to authorize the use of game fish eggs as bait in Lake Superior and its tributaries; modifying the spear fishing prohibited period; modifying restrictions on use and possession of nets and spears; allowing suckers to be taken by spearing during a certain period; establishing an early bow fishing season for residents and nonresidents; modifying the authority for bows and arrows possession; modifying nighttime restrictions on motors; specifying antler point restrictions; requiring the commissioner to amend rules relating to game fish eggs as bait, wildlife restitution value for sandhill cranes, rough fish spearing date change consistency, and spearing restrictions removal in certain lakes; repealing the zebra mussel definition, provisions relating to big game license requirements for nonresidents under age 16, the prohibition on returning certain netted rough fish to waters, and a certain prior provision relating to deer hunting rules
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