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LR 1511
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CHAPTER 75

 
H.P. 1066 - L.D. 1519

 
Resolve, To Address the Unauthorized Publication of

 
Information Concerning Recreational Trails That Cross

 
Private Property

 
Sec. 1. Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and Department of Conservation to
resolve conflicts. Resolved: That the Department of Inland Fisheries and
Wildlife and the Department of Conservation shall work with the
Executive Department, State Planning Office, private property
owners and interested parties to resolve conflicts regarding the
publication, without landowner knowledge or consent, of
descriptions of recreational trails or portions of recreational
trails that cross private property; and be it further

 
Sec. 2. Program. Resolved: That the Department of Inland Fisheries
and Wildlife and the Department of Conservation shall develop and
implement a program that:

 
A. Helps to ensure that published materials and website
information describing recreational trails provide notice
when a recreational trail crosses private property;

 
B. Encourages recreational users to be respectful of
private property and makes those users aware when landowners

 
are voluntarily allowing the public to use recreational
trails and that they have the right to limit the use of or
completely close such a trail or portions of such a trail;

 
C. Advises nonprofit entities, authors, media and others
who publish materials about recreational trails to ascertain
whether or not a trail crosses private property and
encourages them to obtain written permission to publish
information about such a trail from the landowner; and


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