2006 Minnesota Statutes

84.091 AQUATIC VEGETATION IN PUBLIC WATERS.
    Subdivision 1. Ownership. The state is the owner of wild rice and other aquatic vegetation
growing in public waters. A person may not acquire a property interest in wild rice or other
aquatic vegetation or destroy wild rice or aquatic vegetation, except as authorized under this
chapter or section 103G.615.
    Subd. 2. License required; exception. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), a person may
not harvest, buy, sell, transport, or possess aquatic plants without a license required under this
chapter. A license shall be issued in the same manner as provided under the game and fish laws.
(b) A resident under the age of 18 years may harvest wild rice without a license, if
accompanied by a person with a wild rice license.
    Subd. 3. License fees. (a) The fees for the following licenses, to be issued to residents
only, are:
(1) for harvesting wild rice:
(i) for a season, $25; and
(ii) for one day, $15;
(2) for buying and selling wild ginseng, $5;
(3) for a wild rice dealer's license to buy and sell 50,000 pounds or less, $70; and
(4) for a wild rice dealer's license to buy and sell more than 50,000 pounds, $250.
(b) The fee for a nonresident one-day license to harvest wild rice is $30.
(c) The weight of the wild rice shall be determined in its raw state.
History: 1986 c 386 art 4 s 10; 1987 c 404 s 96; 1991 c 200 s 1; 2003 c 128 art 1 s 15,16;
2004 c 255 s 5