Minnesota Session Laws - 1983, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1983 

                        CHAPTER 245--H.F.No. 149
           An act relating to game and fish; eliminating the 
          separate license for hunting certain animals with dogs;
          authorizing special permits to possess deer as pets; 
          amending Minnesota Statutes 1982, sections 98.46, 
          subdivision 2; and 98.48, subdivision 3. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 98.46, 
subdivision 2, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 2.  Fees for the following licenses, to be issued to 
residents only, shall be: 
    (1) To take small game, $7; 
    (2) To take deer with firearms, $15; 
    (3) To take deer with bow and arrow, $15; 
    (4) To take fish by angling, $6.50; 
    (5) Combination husband and wife, to take fish by angling, 
$10.50; 
    (6) To take moose, $140 for an individual or for a party of 
not to exceed four persons; 
    (7) To take bear only, $15; 
    (8) To take turkeys, $10, in addition to a small game 
license;.  
    (9) To take raccoon, bobcat, coyote or fox with the aid of 
dogs, $7.50, in addition to a small game license.  
    Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 98.48, 
subdivision 3, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 3.  The commissioner may issue special permits, 
without fee, to take, possess and transport wild animals in such 
manner and under such conditions as he may prescribe for 
scientific, educational or exhibition purposes, or for use as 
pets, provided no wild or native deer may be taken or possessed 
for propagation, or exhibition or pet purposes, except those now 
lawfully possessed for such purposes.  The commissioner shall 
establish criteria for issuing special permits to persons for 
the purpose of possessing wild and native deer as pets, pursuant 
to his authority under section 97.53, subdivision 2.  All 
animals possessed under authority of this provision, as well as 
deer now contained on game farms, private and public parks and 
zoos, and their progeny, or possessed as pets, may be disposed 
of only as prescribed by the commissioner. 
    Approved June 1, 1983