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97A.421.3c

Statute ID: 20251

Statute Function ID: 40301

Abandoned watercraft - Restrictions on owners until DNR costs reimbursed

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Statute Number:

97A.421.3c

Enactment Date:

Jun 14, 2025

Effective Date:

Jul 1, 2025

Expiration Date:

Repealed?:

Summary Text:

Abandoned watercraft - Restrictions on owners until DNR costs reimbursed

Statute ID:

20251

Created:

Jun 17, 2025 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Updated:

Jun 17, 2025 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Last Update Action:

Added

Legal Analyst Comment:

New 2025 SS1 C1 Art4 Sec8

Summary Text:

Abandoned watercraft - Restrictions on owners until DNR costs reimbursed

Link to MN Statute Text:

https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/97A/421.html

Legislative Session:

2025 - Special 1

Session Law Text?:

Statute text last updated on:

Jun 17, 2025

(a) After a conviction under section 86B.109, subdivision 2, the following license and registration restrictions remain in effect until the person reimburses the Department of Natural Resources for all the department's costs under section 86B.109, subdivision 2:

(1) all the person's annual game and fish licenses are void;

(2) the person may not act under any lifetime game and fish license;

(3) all the person's watercraft licenses and registrations that are required to operate watercraft in the state are void;

(4) all the person's off-highway vehicle and snowmobile licenses and registrations that are required to operate those vehicles in the state are void; and

(5) the person may not obtain any of the licenses or registrations described in clauses (1) to (4).

(b) If a conviction under section 86B.109, subdivision 2, was for abandoning a watercraft in a boundary water of the state, the commissioner must coordinate with neighboring jurisdictions to ensure that, to the maximum extent practicable, the person is subject to similar consequences in the neighboring jurisdiction as those imposed under paragraph (a).