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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