Bill Text: MI SB0588 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Natural resources; hunting; certain tribal conservation officers; authorize to demand hunting, fishing, or fur harvester's licenses. Amends sec. 43516 of 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.43516).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-03-09 - Assigned Pa 0036'16 With Immediate Effect [SB0588 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-SB0588-Chaptered.html
Act No. 36
Public Acts of 2016
Approved by the Governor
March 8, 2016
Filed with the Secretary of State
March 8, 2016
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 6, 2016
STATE OF MICHIGAN
98TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2016
Introduced by Senators Casperson, Schmidt and Stamas
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 588
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 protect the people’s right to hunt and fish; 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 43516 (MCL 324.43516), as amended by 2013 PA 108.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 43516. (1) An individual who has been issued a hunting, fur harvester’s, or fishing license shall carry the license and shall exhibit the license upon the demand of a conservation officer, a law enforcement officer, a tribal conservation officer who complies with subsection (3), or the owner or occupant of the land if either or both of the following apply:
(a) The person is hunting, trapping, or fishing.
(b) Subject to section 43510(2) and except as provided in section 43513, the individual is in possession of a firearm or other hunting or trapping apparatus or fishing apparatus in an area frequented by wild animals or fish, respectively.
(2) Subject to section 43510(2) and except as provided in section 43513, an individual shall not carry or possess afield a shotgun with buckshot, slug loads, or ball loads; a bow and arrow; a muzzle-loading rifle or black powder handgun; or a centerfire handgun or centerfire rifle during firearm deer season unless that individual has a valid deer license, with an unused kill tag, if issued, issued in his or her name. The individual shall exhibit an unused kill tag, if issued, upon the request of a conservation officer, a law enforcement officer, or the owner or occupant of the land.
(3) A tribal conservation officer under subsection (1) must be in uniform, display proper credentials, and be on official duty within the ceded territory of the treaty of March 28, 1836, 7 Stat 491.
(4) As used in this section, “tribal conservation officer” means a conservation officer employed by the Great Lakes Indian fish and wildlife commission, the Bay Mills Indian Community, the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, or the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
