Bill Text: MN HF599 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Beaver control provided by road authorities.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-17 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Policy and Finance [HF599 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2011-HF599-Introduced.html
1.2relating to natural resources; providing for beaver control by road authorities;
1.3amending Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 97B.667.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 97B.667, is amended to read:
1.697B.667 REMOVAL OF BEAVERS, BEAVER DAMS, AND LODGES BY
1.7ROAD AUTHORITIES.
1.8When a drainage watercourse is impaired by a beaver dam and the water damages
1.9or threatens to damage a public road, the road authority, as defined in section160.02,
1.10subdivision 25 , may remove the impairment and any associated beaver lodge within 300
1.11feet of the road. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the road authority may remove
1.12or kill or arrange to have removed or killed by any lawful means a beaver associated
1.13with the lodge. A road authority that kills or arranges to have killed a beaver under this
1.14section must notify a conservation officer or employee of the Wildlife Division within
1.15ten days after the animal is killed. A road authority may, after consultation with the
1.16Wildlife Division and the Board of Water and Soil Resources, implement a local beaver
1.17control program designed to reduce the number of incidents of beaver interfering with or
1.18damaging a public road. The local control program may include the offering of a bounty
1.19for the lawful taking of beaver.
1.3amending Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 97B.667.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 97B.667, is amended to read:
1.697B.667 REMOVAL OF BEAVERS, BEAVER DAMS, AND LODGES BY
1.7ROAD AUTHORITIES.
1.8When a drainage watercourse is impaired by a beaver dam and the water damages
1.9or threatens to damage a public road, the road authority, as defined in section
1.10subdivision 25
1.11feet of the road. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the road authority may remove
1.12or kill or arrange to have removed or killed by any lawful means a beaver associated
1.13with the lodge. A road authority that kills or arranges to have killed a beaver under this
1.14section must notify a conservation officer or employee of the Wildlife Division within
1.15ten days after the animal is killed. A road authority may, after consultation with the
1.16Wildlife Division and the Board of Water and Soil Resources, implement a local beaver
1.17control program designed to reduce the number of incidents of beaver interfering with or
1.18damaging a public road. The local control program may include the offering of a bounty
1.19for the lawful taking of beaver.
