Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF1288

E Relating to game and fish; modifying certain separate selection criteria for
moose and turkey licenses; modifying the provision providing for the issuance of
licenses without a fee to owners or tenants of agricultural land for deer
hunting purposes; extending the take a kid fishing weekend; authorizing the
commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to issue provisional firearms safety
certificates to persons satisfactorily completing the classroom portion of the
firearms safety course and unable to pass the written or alternate format exam
portion due to mental retardation or a related condition upon recommendation of
the course instructor and providing for the issuance of firearms hunting
licenses to persons issued provisional safety certificates; authorizing the
taking of big game with a .45 Winchester magnum cartridge; modifying the
requirement for the transport of archery bows in the trunk of a motor vehicle;
exempting trappers from blaze orange clothing requirements; providing for all
season buck licenses, fee; expanding the authority of the commissioner to
designate lakes and streams as experimental waters; specifying certain criteria
for the conduct of fishing contests without a permit, requiring a permit without
a fee for fishing contests not meeting the criteria, prescribing the application
process, limiting the number of contests allowed on certain smaller lakes and
authorizing the commissioner to set certain permit restrictions; modifying the
authority of anglers to use lighted fishing lures; appropriating money to the
commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for transfer to the university of
Minnesota Duluth to conduct an inventory of state owned land located within the
boundary waters canoe area (BWCA) to provide the legislature and state officers
with more precise information relating to the nature, extent and value of the
land, defining state owned land and specifying certain inventory content
requirements and certain duties of the commissioner, requesting a university
report to the legislature by a certain date (ja)