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1.__Financial accounting. The financial accounting of all
department revenues and expenditures, including long-range
financial planning and the preparation of annual and biennial
budgets;

 
2.__Personnel activities. The administration of all personnel
activities;

 
3.__Licensing and registration. The administration and
issuance of department licenses, stamps and permits and the
registration of snowmobiles, watercraft and all-terrain vehicles;

 
4.__Engineering. The design, maintenance and repair of
department-owned facilities, including the preparation of a
capital improvement plan to be printed in the budget document;

 
5.__Land acquisition. The acquisition and development of land
for the protection, preservation and enhancement of the inland
fisheries and wildlife resources; and

 
6.__Equipment inventory. The maintenance of a current
inventory of all department-owned or department-managed property.

 
§10053.__Bureau of Resource Management

 
The Bureau of Resource Management is established within the
Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. The bureau is equal
in organizational level and status with other major
organizational units within the department or its successors. The
bureau is administered by a director who is immediately
responsible to the deputy commissioner. The director possesses
full authority and responsibility for administering all the
powers and duties of the bureau, subject to the direction of the
commissioner and except as otherwise provided by statute. The
responsibilities of the bureau include, but are not limited to:

 
1.__Wildlife management. The management of the wildlife
resources in the State for their preservation, protection,
enhancement and use;

 
2.__Fisheries management. The management of the inland
fisheries resources in the public waters of the State for their
preservation, protection, enhancement and use;

 
3.__Propagation of fish. The propagation of fish for the
effective management of inland fisheries resources in public
waters of the State;


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