M.P. bubbler permits

[codeman671]

I'll be honest, I was on the lake running 2 bubblers at my place for 10 years and never heard anything about needed a permit for them....Other than the required thin ice signs (we used 2), I never knew anything about it.

Nobody even goes out to check if you have them or not, either at the state or local level. I could certainly care less about the $1.00 per year for the 2, but the whole thing seems absurd. What is the purpose? Its not like they are keeping a map of who has and doesn't have them, and publishing it for safety reasons....

[Kamper]

Fifty cents? At that rate I'd chip in to a fund that helps any impoverished dock owners pay the fee!

[Outdoorsman]

Originally Posted by Kamper

Fifty cents? At that rate I'd chip in to a fund that helps any impoverished dock owners pay the fee!

That is a bit of an oxymoron, don't you think?

[secondcurve]

Originally Posted by codeman671

I'll be honest, I was on the lake running 2 bubblers at my place for 10 years and never heard anything about needed a permit for them....Other than the required thin ice signs (we used 2), I never knew anything about it.

Nobody even goes out to check if you have them or not, either at the state or local level. I could certainly care less about the $1.00 per year for the 2, but the whole thing seems absurd. What is the purpose? Its not like they are keeping a map of who has and doesn't have them, and publishing it for safety reasons....

They check after an unsuspecting snowmobiler plunges through the ice and drowns. Then when they determine you weren't following the rules for running a bubbler they charge you with negligent homicide. Maybe be far fetched but I'd spend the buck to make sure I was registered and doing everything properly.

[LIforrelaxin]

Originally Posted by codeman671

I'll be honest, I was on the lake running 2 bubblers at my place for 10 years and never heard anything about needed a permit for them....Other than the required thin ice signs (we used 2), I never knew anything about it.

Nobody even goes out to check if you have them or not, either at the state or local level. I could certainly care less about the $1.00 per year for the 2, but the whole thing seems absurd. What is the purpose? Its not like they are keeping a map of who has and doesn't have them, and publishing it for safety reasons....

My guess codeman is many people have no idea about the permit...... you are surely not alone....I certainly was not aware of this requirement either... Of course I don't use a bubbler or an aquatherm so its of no consequence to me....

But I wonder if a few of my neighbors know about this.... they put the signs out as you do, but I wonder if they get the permit.... not that I am going to turn them in... just curiosity...