Minnesota Session Laws - 1989, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1989 

                        CHAPTER 101-H.F.No. 930 
           An act relating to wild animals; removing authority to 
          offer a bounty on rattlesnakes; amending Minnesota 
          Statutes 1988, sections 348.12 and 348.13. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 348.12, is 
amended to read: 
    348.12 [BOUNTIES, CERTAIN BIRDS AND ANIMALS.] 
    Any county board or board of town supervisors may, by 
resolution, offer a bounty for the destruction of gophers, or 
ground squirrels, or rattlesnakes.  The resolution may be made 
to cover the whole or any part of the county, and may be 
annually renewed, but it shall have force and effect only during 
the calendar year in which it was adopted or renewed.  The 
bounty shall be in such amount or amounts and apply during such 
months, as may be designated by the county board or board of 
town supervisors by resolution.  
    Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 348.13, is 
amended to read: 
    348.13 [BOUNTIES PAID BY TOWNS, REQUIREMENTS.] 
    The four feet of striped and gray gophers and woodchucks, 
both front feet of pocket gophers, the heads and rattles of 
rattlesnakes, and the bodies of birds and reptiles other than 
rattlesnakes shall be produced to the chair of the town board of 
the town where they were killed, and if the chair shall be 
satisfied that they were killed within the designated territory 
and by the person producing them, the chair shall certify to the 
county auditor the number of each kind so killed.  The 
certificate shall be issued by the chair of the town board at 
the end of each month and shall show the names of all persons 
entitled to bounty for the preceding month, the number of each 
kind of animals, reptiles and birds so killed, and the amount of 
bounty that each person is entitled to receive.  The county 
auditor shall issue thereon a warrant on the county treasurer 
payable to the chair of the town board who issued the 
certificate, for the full amount of the bounty allowed by law 
according to the certificate, and upon receipt of the warrant 
the chair shall pay the proper persons the bounty allowed by law 
for the preceding month.  
    The chair to whom such feet, heads, or bodies, and rattles 
are produced shall immediately cause such heads, feet, or bodies 
, and rattles to be destroyed and shall cause the removal of one 
foot from each bird.  
    Any town board may also offer a bounty for the destruction 
of the animals, or birds, and reptiles described in section 
348.12 and adopt rules for the payment thereof, which bounty so 
offered by a town shall be in addition to any bounty which may 
be offered by the board of county commissioners.  
    The town board of any town located in any county having 
over 45,000 and less than 49,000 inhabitants according to the 
1950 federal census, may by resolution require that the tail 
instead of the feet of striped, gray and pocket gophers and 
woodchucks be produced. 
    Presented to the governor May 5, 1989 
    Signed by the governor May 9, 1989, 6:06 p.m.