Trailer decal req 1/1/15

[Lee Borgersen]

Aquatic Invasive Species training will be required starting in 2015
If you trailer a boat or water-related equipment like docks and lifts in Minnesota, you must take AIS training and get a trailer decal.

Online training will be available here in January 2015.
Paper home-study training packets will also be available in January 2015 by calling 651-351-2000.
Trailer decals are required on trailers starting July 1, 2015.

Go to this web-site for all your questions and answers:
http://www.trailers.mndnr.gov/


                                SHOW ME DA MONEY FOLKS!

This plan stinks like .......................

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[DDSBYDAY]

   Every three years.  Cost to be determined last I heard.  Guess what fee will be raised every year for eternity with absolutely no effect what so every on aquatic Invasive Species.      I would be willing to bet that violation will carry a pretty hefty fine too.

[DDSBYDAY]

  Just passing through the state with a boat you never intend to put in the water requires a decal too.  Man, that will bring in some out of state cash.  That is where the term Highway robbery comes from.  Why not just have border patrol and charge people to enter the state.  Why just shakedown boat owners?  It should be just as unconstitutional. 

[The General]

Only warnings given for the first year.  Maybe Fawk can make us some decals?

[Lee Borgersen]

Buy a Hershey Bar today for only $10.00 and we will give you the answers to the invasive species test absolutely Free!

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[deadeye]

I already have several of these stickers on my boat and trailer.  Every time I comply and add one, they change the rules and the one I have is no longer required.     

[Boar]

They gota pay the grunts at the landings to inspect ur boat so had tofigure out something.

[Lee Borgersen]

         One of Minnesota State Legislature’s first orders of business:

            REPEAL AIS TRAINING LAW Repeal AIS TRAINING LAW!

Posted on January 8, 2015

There’s been a fair amount of teeth-gnashing about a law passed during the 2012 session that isn't set to take effect until this year. It would require anyone who tows a boat or other water-related equipment on a trailer in Minnesota to take an aquatic invasive species training course and display a decal as proof of course completion.
The DNR has yet to set a cost for the course, but the program’s web page (http://trailers.mndnr.gov/) says it will be available Jan. 31.
Some lawmakers, however, have set their sights on killing the program. Rep. Steve Drazkowski, R-Mazeppa, on the third day of the 2015 session introduced HF 50. The bill would eliminate the training program and the decal requirement.
The bill’s co-sponsors are Reps. Bud Nornes, R-Fergus Falls, Paul Anderson, R-Starbuck, and Linda Runbeck, R-Circle Pines.
It’s somewhat surprising such legislation would be introduced so early in the session, but probably illustrates how contentious the issue has been.
By way of background, the genesis of the training program has bipartisan roots.


 For a more comprehensive background, read this previous  post on the topic below:


Unhappiness abounds over AIS training, decal requirement

 
Some people are crying foul about a law set to go into effect in 2015 that requires people who transport boats or other water-related equipment on trailers to take an AIS training course and display a decal on their trailer.

It’s been a hot topic the past few weeks. We’ve received several letters to the editor about it, and I’ve fielded a handful of phone calls. Nobody from whom I’ve heard has been in support of the new requirements, and most seem to be of the belief it’s a money-making scheme the DNR concocted and sprung on an unsuspecting public.

That’s not exactly the case. While we can question the merits of the program, it’s important to remember that it didn’t just come out of nowhere.

While the concept’s roots can be found in the 2011 legislative session, the requirements coming on-line in 2015 are the result of laws passed in 2012.

The original bills are HF 2242 and SF 1928. Rep. John Ward, DFL-Baxter – who’s no longer in the House – Sen. Tom Saxhaug, DFL-Grand Rapids, carried those bills.

Those bills then were rolled into much larger policy bills – HF 2164 and SF 1830. Rep. Denny McNamara, R-Hastings, and Sen. Bill Ingebrigtsen, R-Alexandria, carried those bills.

Both the House and Senate ultimately approved HF 2164, and Gov. Mark Dayton signed the bill into law on May 3, 2012.

[deadeye]

Seems like a major disconnect here.  Anyone can take the training, get decals and put them anywhere.  There is no connection between "trailer" with a decal and the person "towing" it down the road.  So what if the "trailer" knows the rules.  Shouldn't the person "towing" it be the one with the decal? Maybe put a notification on their drivers license.  Oh, Crap, did I say that out loud?l

[Fawkinnae]

I had an interesting conversation at the DNR booth at the St. Paul Sports Show yesterday. I first of all I told the DNR representative how annoyed EVERYONE is with this ridiculous new law. He agreed that a lot of people are upset with it and has many details not well thought out. Sounded to me like it is very much up in the air and in fact may end up not happening at all.
Law makers (not all of them) are some of the most arrogant people on the planet, and will sometimes write laws about things that they really have no knowledge about - in the interest of appearing to do their job. (My opinion.)
Anyway my point is, I think this is a long way from being a done deal.