Bill Text: MN HF1185 | 2013-2014 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Elk license auction established to control elk causing damage or nuisance, funding provided, and money appropriated.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-14 - Committee report, to pass as amended and re-refer to Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Finance [HF1185 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2013-HF1185-Engrossed.html
1.2relating to game and fish; establishing an elk license auction to control elk
1.3causing damage or nuisance; appropriating money;amending Minnesota Statutes
1.42012, section 97B.515, subdivision 4.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 97B.515, subdivision 4, is amended to read:
1.7 Subd. 4. Taking elk causing damage or nuisance. (a) The commissioner may
1.8authorize licensed hunters to take elk that are causing damage or nuisance from August
1.915 to March 1 under rules prescribed by the commissioner. The commissioner may
1.10issue licenses to hunters by public auction conducted through an auction process as
1.11provided under paragraph (b). If the commissioner is unable to award a sufficient number
1.12of licenses to address the damage or nuisance being caused by elk, the commissioner
1.13may issue licenses to hunters impartially selected from a list of elk hunt applicants who
1.14indicated on their application that they would be interested and available to respond to
1.15an elk damage or nuisance situation. Notwithstanding section97A.433, subdivision 2 ,
1.16clause (2), a person receiving a license to hunt elk under this subdivision does not lose
1.17eligibility for future elk hunts.
1.18(b) The commissioner must first award elk licenses to take elk causing damage or
1.19nuisance by public auction. The commissioner shall establish the form and procedures for
1.20conducting the auction. The commissioner must award elk licenses under this subdivision
1.21to the highest bidders until all elk licenses have been awarded or all eligible bidders have
1.22received a license. A person awarded an elk license under this subdivision has 15 days to
1.23submit payment for the license. The minimum bid for an elk license is $287. The amount
1.24paid for each elk license issued under this subdivision shall be deposited in the general
2.1fund and is appropriated to the commissioner of agriculture for compensation for crop or
2.2fence damage caused by elk as provided under section 3.7371.
1.3causing damage or nuisance; appropriating money;amending Minnesota Statutes
1.42012, section 97B.515, subdivision 4.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 97B.515, subdivision 4, is amended to read:
1.7 Subd. 4. Taking elk causing damage or nuisance. (a) The commissioner may
1.8authorize licensed hunters to take elk that are causing damage or nuisance from August
1.915 to March 1 under rules prescribed by the commissioner. The commissioner may
1.10issue licenses to hunters by public auction conducted through an auction process as
1.11provided under paragraph (b). If the commissioner is unable to award a sufficient number
1.12of licenses to address the damage or nuisance being caused by elk, the commissioner
1.13may issue licenses to hunters impartially selected from a list of elk hunt applicants who
1.14indicated on their application that they would be interested and available to respond to
1.15an elk damage or nuisance situation. Notwithstanding section
1.16clause (2), a person receiving a license to hunt elk under this subdivision does not lose
1.17eligibility for future elk hunts.
1.18(b) The commissioner must first award elk licenses to take elk causing damage or
1.19nuisance by public auction. The commissioner shall establish the form and procedures for
1.20conducting the auction. The commissioner must award elk licenses under this subdivision
1.21to the highest bidders until all elk licenses have been awarded or all eligible bidders have
1.22received a license. A person awarded an elk license under this subdivision has 15 days to
1.23submit payment for the license. The minimum bid for an elk license is $287. The amount
1.24paid for each elk license issued under this subdivision shall be deposited in the general
2.1fund and is appropriated to the commissioner of agriculture for compensation for crop or
2.2fence damage caused by elk as provided under section 3.7371.
