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97B.081

Statute ID: 7064

Statute Function ID: 20700

Hunting-Use Artificial Lights to Locate Animals

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Statute Number:

97B.081

Enactment Date:

Jan 1, 1859

Effective Date:

Jul 1, 1986

Expiration Date:

Repealed?:

Summary Text:

Hunting-Use Artificial Lights to Locate Animals

Statute ID:

7064

Created:

Sep 1, 2006 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Updated:

Aug 4, 2009 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Last Update Action:

System

Legal Analyst Comment:

Summary Text:

Hunting-Use Artificial Lights to Locate Animals

Link to MN Statute Text:

https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/97B/081.html

Legislative Session:

2005 - NA

Session Law Text?:

Statute text last updated on:

Aug 4, 2009

Subdivision 1.  
Except as provided in subdivision 3, a person may not cast the rays of a spotlight, headlight, or other artificial light on a highway, or in a field, woodland, or forest, to spot, locate, or take a wild animal while having in possession, either individually or as one of a group of persons, a firearm, bow, or other implement that could be used to take big game, small game, or unprotected wild animals.

Subd. 2.   
(a) Except as provided in subdivision 3, from two hours after sunset until sunrise, a person may not cast the rays of a spotlight, headlight, or other artificial light on a highway, or in a field, woodland, or forest to spot, or locate, a wild animal. 
(b) Except as provided in subdivision 3, a person may not cast the rays of a spotlight, headlight, or other artificial light on fenced.
(c) Except as provided in subdivision 3, a person may not cast an artificial light onto 
residential property or building sites from a motor vehicle.
(d) Except as provided in subdivision 3, a person may not at any time cast the rays of a spotlight, headlight, or other artificial light onto property posted with signs prohibiting the shining of lights onto the property. When signs are posted, the signs shall display letters that are at least two inches in height and state "no shining" or similar terms and shall be placed at intervals of 500 feet or less along the boundary of the property.