LD 1600
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C.__Prescribe the type and length of instruction and the
time and place of examinations; and

 
D.__Issue a certificate of competency to individuals who
successfully complete the examination.

 
7.__Trapper education program established.__The commissioner
shall establish a program for training individuals in safe and
responsible trapping skills and behavior. This program must
include instruction in the applicable laws and rights and in the
appropriate principals of wildlife management. The commissioner
may charge an enrollment fee of up to $10 a person to help defray
the costs of this program.__For the purpose of establishing the
program, the commissioner may cooperate with any public or
private association having similar goals.

 
In establishing the program, the commissioner shall:

 
A.__Prescribe the qualifications of instructors;

 
B.__Provide for insurance.__Each instructor authorized by
the commissioner to conduct training under the program must
be covered by liability insurance protecting that person
from liability for damages during the time when instruction
is being given.__The cost of this insurance must be borne by
the State and must be a charge against the funds credited to
the department;

 
C.__Prescribe the type and length of instruction and the
time and place of examinations; and

 
D.__Issue a certificate of competency to individuals who
successfully complete the examination.

 
8.__Hunters for the Hungry Program.__The Hunters for the
Hungry Program, referred to in this subsection as the "program,"
is established to allow the department and persons who are
lawfully in the possession of wild game meat to donate that wild
game meat for distribution to needy persons through the food
assistance programs of the Department of Agriculture, Food and
Rural Resources.

 
A.__The department shall develop and implement this program
in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture, Food and
Rural Resources.__In developing the program, the department
shall investigate, in cooperation with the Department of
Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources, the costs and
benefits of establishing a toll-free telephone line for
facilitating the donation of meat.


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