Bill Text: MI SB0412 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Natural resources; hunting; wild turkey license fee; modify use. Amends sec. 43524 of 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.43524).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-04-17 - Assigned Pa 0081'12 With Immediate Effect [SB0412 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-SB0412-Chaptered.html
Act No. 81
Public Acts of 2012
Approved by the Governor
April 10, 2012
Filed with the Secretary of State
April 11, 2012
EFFECTIVE DATE: April 11, 2012
STATE OF MICHIGAN
96TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2012
Introduced by Senators Booher, Hansen, Green, Proos, Marleau and Casperson
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 412
AN ACT to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled “An act to protect the environment and natural resources of the state; to codify, revise, consolidate, and classify laws relating to the environment and natural resources of the state; to regulate the discharge of certain substances into the environment; to regulate the use of certain lands, waters, and other natural resources of the state; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local agencies and officials; to provide for certain charges, fees, assessments, and donations; to provide certain appropriations; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 43524 (MCL 324.43524), as amended by 2002 PA 81.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 43524. (1) An individual shall not hunt wild turkey without a wild turkey hunting license. The fee for a resident wild turkey hunting license is $15.00. The fee for a nonresident wild turkey hunting license is $69.00. Subject to the requirements of section 40113a, the commission may issue an order requiring that all applications for wild turkey hunting licenses, or applications for wild turkey hunting licenses for certain geographic areas, be entered into a lottery designed and run by the department. An individual selected in a lottery, upon meeting the requirements of this part, is authorized to purchase a wild turkey hunting license. The license shall be issued for a specified hunting period and shall confer upon the holder of the license the right to hunt wild turkeys.
(2) The department may charge a nonrefundable application fee not to exceed $4.00 for each application for a wild turkey hunting license that is entered into a lottery under subsection (1).
(3) From fees collected under subsection (1) or (2), the following amounts shall be used for scientific research, biological survey work on wild turkeys, creation and management of wild turkey habitat on state land, national forestland, and private land, annual wild turkey hunter surveys, disease testing for wild turkeys suspected of having a disease and voluntarily submitted to the department of natural resources, and other wild turkey management in this state:
(a) Resident wild turkey hunting license...................................................................................................................... $ 9.50
(b) Nonresident wild turkey hunting license................................................................................................................ $ 50.00
(c) Senior wild turkey hunting license........................................................................................................................... $ 1.00
(d) Wild turkey hunting application.....................................amount of application fee, if any, but not more than $ 3.00.
(4) The department shall, to the extent possible, use the money from subsection (3) to create and manage wild turkey habitat on state forestland, state game areas, national forestland, and private land, where appropriate. The department shall, before January 1 of each year, provide to the standing committees in the senate and house of representatives that primarily consider issues relating to natural resources a report detailing the expenditures for the prior year under subsection (3).
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
