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97A.095

Statute ID: 12587

Fish and Game - Waterfowl protected areas

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Statute Number:

97A.095

Enactment Date:

Jan 1, 1859

Effective Date:

Aug 1, 2004

Expiration Date:

Repealed?:

Summary Text:

Fish and Game - Waterfowl protected areas

Statute ID:

12587

Created:

Dec 30, 2008 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Updated:

Dec 30, 2008 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Last Update Action:

Updated

Legal Analyst Comment:

2004 c 215 s 5; Will become Non-Charging Headnote Only.

Summary Text:

Fish and Game - Waterfowl protected areas

Link to MN Statute Text:

https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/97A/095.html

Legislative Session:

2004 - Regular

Session Law Text?:

Statute text last updated on:

Dec 30, 2008

Subd. 2.   
The commissioner may, by rule, designate any part of a lake as a migratory feeding and resting area. Before designation, the commissioner must receive a petition signed by at least ten local resident licensed hunters describing the area of a lake that is a substantial feeding or resting area for migratory waterfowl, and find that the statements in the petition are correct, and that adequate, free public access to the lake exists near the designated area. The commissioner shall post the area as a migratory waterfowl feeding and resting area. Except as authorized in rules adopted by the commissioner, a person may not enter a posted migratory waterfowl feeding and resting area, during a period when hunting of migratory waterfowl is allowed, with watercraft or aircraft propelled by a motor, other than an electric motor with battery power of 12 volts or less. The commissioner may, by rule, further restrict the use of electric motors in migratory waterfowl feeding and resting areas.


Subdivision 1.  
The commissioner may designate by rule any part of a state game refuge or any part of a public water that is designated for management purposes under section 97A.101, subdivision 2, as a migratory waterfowl sanctuary if there is presented to the commissioner a petition signed by ten resident licensed hunters describing an area that is primarily a migratory waterfowl refuge. The commissioner shall post the area as a migratory waterfowl sanctuary. A person may not enter a posted migratory waterfowl sanctuary during the open migratory waterfowl season unless accompanied by or under a permit issued by a conservation officer or wildlife manager. Upon a request from a private landowner within a migratory waterfowl sanctuary, an annual permit must be issued to provide access to the property during the waterfowl season. The permit shall include conditions that allow no activity which would disturb waterfowl using the refuge during the waterfowl season.