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MN Stat § 84.0873 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 83A - 84 — Natural Resources|Chapter 84 — Department Of Natural Resources|Section 84.0873 — Data On Individuals Who Are Minors.

84.0873 DATA ON INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE MINORS. (a) When the Department of Natural Resources collects, creates, receives, maintains, or disseminates the following data on individuals who the department knows are minors, the data are considered private data on individuals, as defined in section 13.02, subdivision 12, except for data classified as public data according to section 13.43: (1) name; (2) date of birth; (3) Social Security number; (4) telephone number; (5) e-mail address; (6) physical or mailing address; (7) location data; (8) online account access information; (9) data associated with the location of electronic devices; and (10) other data that would identify participants who have registered for events, programs, or classes sponsored by the Department of Natural Resources. (b) Access to data described in paragraph (a) is subject to Minnesota Rules, part 1205.0500. Data about minors classified under this section maintain their classification as private data on individuals after the individual is no longer a minor. (c) When data about minors is created, collected, stored, or maintained as part of the electronic licensing system described in section 84.0874, the data is governed by section 84.0874 and may be disclosed pursuant to the provisions therein. History:   1Sp2021 c 11 art 3 s 7
MN Stat § 84.0875 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 83A - 84 — Natural Resources|Chapter 84 — Department Of Natural Resources|Section 84.0875 — Environmental Learning Centers.

84.0875 ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTERS. (a) The commissioner may acquire and better, or make grants to counties, home rule charter or statutory cities, or school districts to acquire and better, residential environmental learning centers where students may learn how to use, preserve, and renew the natural resources of this state. A facility and reasonable access to it must be owned by the state or a political subdivision but may be leased to or managed by a nonprofit organization to carry out an environmental learning program established by the commissioner. The lease or management agreement must comply with the requirements of section 16A.695 and must provide for the procurement of liability insurance by the nonprofit organization. A nonprofit organization that is operating an environmental learning center under this section is a municipality for purposes of the liability limitations of section 466.04 while acting within the scope of these activities. (b) During the time the center is used for educational programs offered in conjunction with a college or university, the rules and standards related to space requirements are governed by section 144.74. History:  1994 c 643 s 46; 2002 c 360 s 1; 2008 c 357 s 4
MN Stat § 84.089 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 83A - 84 — Natural Resources|Chapter 84 — Department Of Natural Resources|Section 84.089 — Volunteers In Natural Resources Program.

84.089 VOLUNTEERS IN NATURAL RESOURCES PROGRAM. Subdivision 1. Volunteers permitted. The commissioner of natural resources may recruit, train, and accept without regard to personnel laws, or rules, the services of individuals without compensation as volunteers for or in aid of activities in and related to the areas or programs administered by the commissioner. Subd. 2. Incidental expenses. The commissioner may provide for the incidental expenses of a volunteer, such as transportation, uniforms, lodging, and subsistence. Subd. 3. Application of law. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a volunteer is not a state employee and is not subject to the provisions of law relating to state employment, including but not limited to those relating to hours of work, rates of compensation, leave, unemployment benefits, and state employee benefits. A volunteer accepted under this section is a state employee for the purposes of section 176.011, subdivision 9, and the provisions of chapter 176, relating to workers' compensation apply to the volunteer. History:  1980 c 384 s 1; 1986 c 444; 1994 c 488 s 8; 1999 c 107 s 66; 2000 c 343 s 4
MN Stat § 84.0894 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 83A - 84 — Natural Resources|Chapter 84 — Department Of Natural Resources|Section 84.0894 — Enforcement Of Aquatic Plants And Endangered Species.

84.0894 ENFORCEMENT OF AQUATIC PLANTS AND ENDANGERED SPECIES. An enforcement officer shall enforce a violation of sections 84.0895, 84.091, 84.093, 84.152, and 103G.615 in the same manner as a violation of the game and fish laws. History:  1986 c 386 art 4 s 8; 1987 c 149 art 2 s 1; 1990 c 391 art 10 s 3
MN Stat § 84.0896 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 83A - 84 — Natural Resources|Chapter 84 — Department Of Natural Resources|Section 84.0896 — Trade In Prohibited Animal Parts Prohibited.

84.0896 TRADE IN PROHIBITED ANIMAL PARTS PROHIBITED. Subdivision 1. Definitions. (a) The definitions in this subdivision apply to this section. (b) "Antique" means an item that: (1) contains no more than 200 grams of prohibited animal part as a fixed component of an item that is not made wholly or partially from a prohibited animal part; and (2) is documented to be at least 100 years old. (c) "Prohibited animal part" means any of the following: (1) a tooth or tusk from any species of elephant, hippopotamus, mammoth, mastodon, walrus, whale, or narwhal, or any piece thereof, whether raw or worked; (2) a product containing any of the materials described in clause (1); (3) a horn; piece of horn; or derivative of a horn, such as a powder, of any species of rhinoceros; and (4) a product containing any of the materials described in clause (3). (d) "Sell" or "sale" means an exchange for consideration and includes barter and possession with intent to sell. The term does not include a transfer of ownership by gift, donation, or bequest. Subd. 2. Prohibition. A person shall not purchase or sell any item that the person knows or should know is a prohibited animal part. Subd. 3. Exceptions. (a) Subdivision 2 does not prohibit the sale or purchase of a prohibited animal part if the sale or purchase is: (1) undertaken as part of law enforcement activities; (2) expressly authorized by federal law; (3) of an antique; (4) of a musical instrument containing a lawfully acquired fixed component made of no more than 200 grams of prohibited animal part; or (5) of a prohibited animal part by a bona fide educational or scientific institution that is a nonprofit corporation, as defined in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. (b) Subdivision 2 does not prohibit possession of a cultural artifact containing a prohibited animal part. Subd. 4. Disposition of seized prohibited animal parts. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a prohibited animal part seized under this section must, upon a conviction, be forfeited to the state and either destroyed or given to a nonprofit corporation, as defined in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, for an educational or scientific purpose. History:   1Sp2019 c 4 art 3 s 14
MN Stat § 84.091 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 83A - 84 — Natural Resources|Chapter 84 — Department Of Natural Resources|Section 84.091 — Aquatic Vegetation In Public Waters.

84.091 AQUATIC VEGETATION IN PUBLIC WATERS. Subdivision 1. Ownership. The state is the owner of wild rice and other aquatic vegetation growing in public waters. A person may not acquire a property interest in wild rice or other aquatic vegetation or destroy wild rice or aquatic vegetation, except as authorized under this chapter or section 103G.615. Subd. 2. License required; exemptions. (a) Except as provided in this subdivision, a person may not harvest, buy, sell, transport, or possess aquatic plants without a license required under this chapter. A license shall be issued in the same manner as provided under the game and fish laws. (b) A resident under the age of 18 years may harvest wild rice without a license, if accompanied by a person with a wild rice license. (c) Tribal band members who possess a valid tribal identification card from a federally recognized tribe located in Minnesota are deemed to have a license to harvest wild rice under this section. Subd. 3. License fees. (a) The fees for the following licenses, to be issued to residents only, are: (1) for harvesting wild rice: (i) for a season, $25; and (ii) for one day, $15; (2) for buying and selling wild ginseng, $5; (3) for a wild rice dealer's license to buy and sell 50,000 pounds or less, $70; and (4) for a wild rice dealer's license to buy and sell more than 50,000 pounds, $250. (b) The fee for a nonresident one-day license to harvest wild rice is $30. (c) The weight of the wild rice shall be determined in its raw state. History:  1986 c 386 art 4 s 10; 1987 c 404 s 96; 1991 c 200 s 1; 2003 c 128 art 1 s 15,16; 2004 c 255 s 5; 2016 c 189 art 3 s 10
MN Stat § 84.0911 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 83A - 84 — Natural Resources|Chapter 84 — Department Of Natural Resources|Section 84.0911 — Wild Rice Management Account.

84.0911 WILD RICE MANAGEMENT ACCOUNT. Subdivision 1. Account established. The wild rice management account is established as an account in the game and fish fund. Subd. 2. Receipts. Money received from the sale of wild rice licenses issued by the commissioner under section 84.091, subdivision 3, paragraph (a), clauses (1), (3), and (4), and subdivision 3, paragraph (b), shall be credited to the wild rice management account. Subd. 3. Use of money in account. Except for the electronic licensing system commission established by the commissioner under section 84.027, subdivision 15, money in the wild rice management account is annually appropriated to the commissioner and shall be used for management of designated public waters to improve natural wild rice production. History:  1987 c 149 art 1 s 1; 1989 c 335 art 4 s 106,109; 1990 c 594 art 1 s 78; 1995 c 186 s 23; 2003 c 128 art 1 s 17; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 2 s 17; 2006 c 281 art 1 s 2
MN Stat § 84.093 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 83A - 84 — Natural Resources|Chapter 84 — Department Of Natural Resources|Section 84.093 — Wild Ginseng.

84.093 WILD GINSENG. The commissioner may establish rules including seasons for harvesting to conserve wild ginseng. History:  1985 c 248 s 70; 1986 c 386 art 4 s 12
MN Stat § 84.10 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 83A - 84 — Natural Resources|Chapter 84 — Department Of Natural Resources|Section 84.10 — Wild Rice Harvested In Certain Lakes.

84.10 WILD RICE HARVESTED IN CERTAIN LAKES. It shall be unlawful for any person to take wild rice grain from any of the waters within the original boundaries of the White Earth, Leech Lake, Nett Lake, Vermillion, Grand Portage, Fond du Lac and Mille Lacs Reservations except said persons be of Indian blood, or residents of the reservation upon which said wild rice grain is taken. History:  (6131-5) 1939 c 231 s 2; 1941 c 217 s 1; 1943 c 220 s 1; 1945 c 171 s 1; 1947 c 424 s 1
MN Stat § 84.105 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 83A - 84 — Natural Resources|Chapter 84 — Department Of Natural Resources|Section 84.105 — Wild Rice Season.

84.105 WILD RICE SEASON. Ripe wild rice may be harvested from August 15 to September 30. History:  1996 c 410 s 19; 2009 c 176 art 1 s 2
MN Stat § 84.111 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 83A - 84 — Natural Resources|Chapter 84 — Department Of Natural Resources|Section 84.111 — Natural Wild Rice Harvesting.

84.111 NATURAL WILD RICE HARVESTING. Subdivision 1. Watercraft restrictions. It shall be unlawful to use, in harvesting wild rice in any public waters in this state, any watercraft other than a boat, skiff, or canoe propelled by hand, which boat, skiff, or canoe may have a top width of not more than 36 inches and a length of not more than 18 feet, or any machine or mechanical device for gathering or harvesting the grain other than with flails not over 30 inches in length nor over one pound in weight, which flails must be held and operated by hand. Subd. 2. Pole restrictions. It is unlawful to use any pole for propelling any watercraft used in such harvesting which is not forked at the end, with each branch less than 12 inches in length. Subd. 3. Machine restrictions. It is unlawful to use in such harvesting any machine or device for gathering the grain other than a flail not over 30 inches in length nor over one pound in weight, held and operated by hand. Subd. 4. Harvest hours. It is unlawful to harvest any wild rice in any public waters between 3:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. following except as otherwise expressly permitted in writing by an authorized committee member or other agent of the commissioner pursuant to rules of the commissioner. Subd. 5. Fee holder provisions. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions 1 to 3, any person holding fee title to all property surrounding a body of public waters may use mechanical harvesting devices to harvest wild rice in those waters. This subdivision does not apply to: (1) any body of public waters greater than 125 acres in size; (2) any body of public waters to which the public has access directly or through a channel or watercourse; (3) any body of public waters within the original boundaries of any Indian reservation; or (4) harvesting of wild rice for use or sale by any person other than the owner of the surrounding property. History:  1949 c 506 s 3,4; 1959 c 684 s 1; 1963 c 174 s 1; 1982 c 543 s 1; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 84.15 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 83A - 84 — Natural Resources|Chapter 84 — Department Of Natural Resources|Section 84.15 — Commissioner's Authority; Rice Harvesting.

84.15 COMMISSIONER'S AUTHORITY; RICE HARVESTING. Subdivision 1. Authority to restrict harvest. The commissioner may restrict or prohibit the harvesting of wild rice grain on public waters of any designated area when, upon investigation of conditions, it shall be determined necessary or advisable to protect against undue depletion of the crop so as to retard reseeding or restocking of such area or so as to endanger its effective use as a natural food for waterfowl. Subd. 2. Harvest for research or planting. The commissioner may harvest not to exceed 10,000 pounds of wild rice in any calendar year for the purposes of obtaining wild rice seed for experimental and research purposes and replanting in public waters of the state, including waters within the original boundaries of the Minnesota Indian reservations. History:  (6131-15) 1939 c 231 s 12; 1949 c 628 s 1; 1957 c 85 s 1; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 84.152 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 83A - 84 — Natural Resources|Chapter 84 — Department Of Natural Resources|Section 84.152 — Wild Rice.

84.152 WILD RICE. Subdivision 1. Rules. The commissioner shall prescribe rules for harvesting and possessing wild rice. Subd. 2. License required. A person who buys wild rice within the state for resale to anyone except consumers, or sells wild rice imported from outside the state to anyone within the state except consumers must have a wild rice dealer's license. Subd. 3. Application. (a) An application for a wild rice dealer's license must be made under a written oath. The form of a wild rice dealer's license application must include: (1) the amount of wild rice, whether raw or processed, bought or sold by the applicant during the preceding calendar year; (2) the amount of wild rice the applicant estimates will be bought or sold under the license; and (3) other pertinent information required by the commissioner. (b) The license fee must be paid in advance, based on the applicant's estimate. A license may not be issued for a fee based on a lesser amount of wild rice than was bought or sold by the applicant during the preceding calendar year. Subd. 4. Supplemental license. A wild rice dealer may not buy or sell wild rice for which a license is required in excess of the amount covered by the license. If a wild rice dealer desires to buy or sell wild rice in excess of the licensed amount, the dealer must apply for a supplemental license. The supplemental license shall be issued for the additional amount of wild rice upon payment of the prescribed fee, less credit for the fees paid for the previous license or licenses issued for the same calendar year. When the supplemental license is issued, the previous licenses held by the dealer shall be surrendered to the commissioner. Subd. 5.  [Repealed, 1989 c 350 art 19 s 2] Subd. 6. Penalties. (a) A person is guilty of a misdemeanor who: (1) willfully makes a false statement in an application for a license or in a required report or record; or (2) violates a provision relating to wild rice dealers. (b) Each violation is a separate offense. An acquittal prohibits later prosecution based on a similar charge involving other wild rice in the same transaction. (c) If a wild rice dealer is convicted of two offenses under this subdivision within three years, the dealer's license is null and void and the dealer may not be issued a license for one year after the date of the conviction. History:   1986 c 386 art 4 s 13
MN Stat § 84.1525 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 83A - 84 — Natural Resources|Chapter 84 — Department Of Natural Resources|Section 84.1525 — Stromatolites.

84.1525 STROMATOLITES. Subdivision 1. Permit required. A person may not possess, move, or disturb a stromatolite located in waters of the state except under a permit issued by the commissioner. Subd. 2. Rules. The commissioner may adopt rules establishing criteria and procedures for: (1) the issuance of stromatolite permits with reasonable conditions; and (2) the denial, modification, suspension, or revocation of stromatolite permits for cause. History:  1992 c 462 s 2; 1993 c 231 s 2
MN Stat § 84.153 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 83A - 84 — Natural Resources|Chapter 84 — Department Of Natural Resources|Section 84.153 — Property; Leasing, Renting.

84.153 PROPERTY; LEASING, RENTING. (a) The commissioner is hereby authorized at public or private vendue and at such prices and under such terms and conditions as the commissioner may prescribe, to lease any buildings or lands not now authorized to be leased, acquired in the name of the state of Minnesota by any of the several divisions of the department which are not presently needed for the uses and purposes of any of the divisions of the department. The purposes for which such leases may be executed shall be in the furtherance of the interests of conservation and such uses shall not result in any permanent injury to the land. No such lease shall be made for a term to exceed two years and shall contain a provision for cancellation at any time by the commissioner upon three months written notice. All money received from these leases shall be credited to the fund from which the property was acquired, except an amount equal to the cost of maintenance of the leased property shall be credited to the fund charged with the cost of maintenance. Money credited for leased property maintenance is appropriated to the commissioner for that purpose. (b) The commissioner is hereby authorized to rent or lease to employees of the various divisions of the department such cabins, buildings, or living quarters as are now or may hereafter be constructed upon state-owned lands under the control of the several divisions of the department, when this occupancy is found to be necessary or beneficial to the work of the department. These leases or rental agreements shall be upon a month to month basis and provide for surrender by the lessee upon demand at any time the lessee's services with the state may be terminated, without the necessity of any written notice. All receipts from rents shall be paid in to the commissioner of management and budget and credited to the fund charged with the cost of maintenance of such buildings and are hereby appropriated for such use. (c) All instruments and transactions so negotiated shall be approved as to form, validity, and execution by the attorney general. (d) Hunting of wild game is prohibited on any land which has been posted by the lessee to prohibit hunting. Such prohibition shall apply to all persons including the lessee. History:  1941 c 291 s 1-3; 1965 c 382 s 1; 1986 c 444; 2002 c 376 s 1; 2003 c 112 art 2 s 50; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 109
MN Stat § 84.156 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 83A - 84 — Natural Resources|Chapter 84 — Department Of Natural Resources|Section 84.156 — Interest In Certain Lands Transferred To United States.

84.156 INTEREST IN CERTAIN LANDS TRANSFERRED TO UNITED STATES. Subdivision 1. Grant of easement to United States. There is hereby granted to the United States an easement and right to flow and overflow by water the right-of-way of any and all town, county and state roads or highways lying within the Lac qui Parle water control project in Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Big Stone, and Swift Counties, below the 945.0 foot elevation on project datum, and no claims for damage shall be maintainable against the United States by the state or any of its governmental subdivisions for any damage or injury to such roadways or highways, below such 945.0 foot elevation, because of the operation of any of the dams in said project or the maintenance of any water levels thereby. Subd. 2. Commissioner to acquire certain titles. The commissioner of natural resources of the state of Minnesota is hereby authorized to acquire by gift, purchase or condemnation, the underlying fee title to the right-of-way of any township or county roads or highways lying within such water control project and not now in public ownership, or the right to flow and overflow the same. The commissioner is further authorized to convey such fee title or flowage easements to the United States, together with any fee titles or easements heretofore obtained by or on behalf of the state, the counties or townships involved, to the right-of-way of any such roads or highways, when such conveyances are required to carry out the purposes of Laws 1943, chapter 476, and Laws 1941, chapter 518. Subd. 3. Grant effective upon acceptance. The grant contained in subdivision 1 herein shall become effective upon the acceptance of title or easements by the United States to lands adjacent to each such road or highway. Subd. 4. Certain laws continued in effect. Nothing herein shall be deemed to repeal or supersede Laws 1943, chapter 476, or Laws 1941, chapter 518, but the same and the whole thereof shall be continued in effect. History:  1945 c 325 s 1-4; 1969 c 1129 art 10 s 2
MN Stat § 84.161 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 83A - 84 — Natural Resources|Chapter 84 — Department Of Natural Resources|Section 84.161 — Land Acquisition For Certain Purposes.

84.161 LAND ACQUISITION FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES. The commissioner of natural resources is hereby authorized to acquire on behalf of the Department of Natural Resources, state of Minnesota, all dam site and flowage easements and other interests in land by gift, purchase, condemnation or otherwise which may be necessary to accomplish the purposes of this section and to construct all dams, structures and control works needed to restore and control the water levels of Goose and Mud Lakes, Cass County, Minnesota, which authority to condemn shall include the condemnation of state-owned land whether held in trust or otherwise and whether or not the same be set aside as lake shore property or other special use under other provisions of law and the commissioner may further use any land of the state under the commissioner's jurisdiction for this project; all for the purpose of improving habitat for fish, wild fowl and game, wild rice and for forestry and fire protection. History:  1957 c 69 s 1; 1969 c 1129 art 10 s 2; 1986 c 444