2007 Minnesota Statutes

290.431 NONGAME WILDLIFE CHECKOFF.
Every individual who files an income tax return or property tax refund claim form may
designate on their original return that $1 or more shall be added to the tax or deducted from the
refund that would otherwise be payable by or to that individual and paid into an account to be
established for the management of nongame wildlife. The commissioner of revenue shall, on the
income tax return and the property tax refund claim form, notify filers of their right to designate
that a portion of their tax or refund shall be paid into the nongame wildlife management account.
The sum of the amounts so designated to be paid shall be credited to the nongame wildlife
management account for use by the nongame program of the section of wildlife in the Department
of Natural Resources. All interest earned on money accrued, gifts to the program, contributions to
the program, and reimbursements of expenditures in the nongame wildlife management account
shall be credited to the account by the commissioner of finance, except that gifts or contributions
received directly by the commissioner of natural resources and directed by the contributor for
use in specific nongame field projects or geographic areas shall be handled according to section
84.085, subdivision 1. The commissioner of natural resources shall submit a work program
for each fiscal year and semiannual progress reports to the Legislative-Citizen Commission on
Minnesota Resources in the form determined by the commission. None of the money provided in
this section may be expended unless the commission has approved the work program.
The state pledges and agrees with all contributors to the nongame wildlife management
account to use the funds contributed solely for the management of nongame wildlife projects
and further agrees that it will not impose additional conditions or restrictions that will limit or
otherwise restrict the ability of the commissioner of natural resources to use the available funds
for the most efficient and effective management of nongame wildlife.
History: 1980 c 607 art 1 s 24; 1981 c 356 s 340; 1982 c 523 art 1 s 42; 1983 c 342 art 1 s
35; 1984 c 514 art 2 s 28; 1986 c 383 s 14; 1988 c 690 art 1 s 1; 1989 c 335 art 1 s 269; 1999 c
231 s 178; 2000 c 495 s 47; 2003 c 112 art 2 s 50; 2006 c 243 s 21