New law for wheeled fish houses

[Gordie]

NEW Note: The Department of Puplic Safety DVS now requires trailers used to haul fish houses or dark houses and encolsed trailers or recreational trailers used for fishing must be registered. see your local Deputy Registrar for trailer registration.

that is what is on page 55 of the Minnesota fishing regulation book. I also heard that you must have them registered by Aug 08and the possiblity of haveing to have electric brakes on cerain size fish houses. that is what the DMV told a buddy of mine who asked about the registration for his house.

[anyfishwilldo]

I really don't think this is a bad idea. I have seen some houses on the road that were hardly worthy to be hauled on ice roads let alone public roads. I personally have not heard this though. Are the licenses being proposed RV tags, or will a permanent tag be considered?

[Gordie]

I belive they are RV tags

[SomethingFishy*]

They are the RV plates. I have the RV plates on my house and the tabs expire yearly in February.

My tabs are based on Gross Weight of 12000lbs My house weighs 4800lbs.

Reg Tax + Filing Fee is $25.50 They did away with the Shelter Liscense and had to supplement that income somehow. Either way for anybody who Ice Fishes the low cost should be of no effect as it is a drop in the bucket compared to our other expenses. Gear/Bait/Etc.

[timjones]

You won't need brakes unless the trailer goes more than 3000 pounds. You will need proper trailer lights.

[Big Buck Buster]

I was told by my local DMV, that I was going to put a commercial license on my fish house. Is that the same as an RV plate? If you look an minnesota's (dot HSOforum), you can find all kinds of info on what has to be on the house, how many lights, brakes, etc. I plan on putting a 6000# suspension system under our house, with brakes. The house is going to be a total 20' in length, we are going to put the brakes in anyway. It will save on my truck brakes and be easier to control. Does anyone know if the DMV is going to need a scale slip, to show the Gross vehicle weight? The DMV did not tell me what I would need at the time of regestration. Give me some accurate info please.

[Big Buck Buster]

One thing that the DMV did tell me is that if your fish house stays under 3000#, and doesn't have a cargo door in the back, you can put a lifetime license on it.

[3pronghook]

When I went to the license bureau to renew my truck tabs I asked the girl working about having to license my homemade wheelhouse. She gave me a form and told me to fill in "homemade" for manufacturer, "2008" for year it was made, and "fishhouse" for model. Then she told me to write this for the explanation; "I built a wheeled fishhouse and now the state is making me license it". Since it is under 3000 lbs I was able to get the lifetime license. $66.00 later it was a quickly done deal.

[Sandmannd]

Where do you guys weigh them to see what they weigh? I have a small trailer I want to convert into a house this summer. It's 5x8, I want to make it about a foot wider by framing it to put the wheels inside the house. I doubt it will be over 3000 but how do you weigh it to know for sure?

[Gissert]

Any truck stop with a scale should be able to accomodate you, or perhaps a local grain elevator.

[Nutty Fisherman]

If you can't find a scale tell the DMV what you think it weighs,after subtracting 500 pounds. A person seems to think it weighs more then it does.

[Gordie]

you can also check at the ready mix plants or gravel pits to see if they have a scale.

[MuleShack]

I just wanted to throw out a question playing devils advocate of course.

Now that you have to register wheel houses as trailers, isn't it considered double dipping by the state to have to register the house with the state for transportation registration as well as DNR for housing license?

I'm not complaining, but rather just wondering how this is viewed? I realize one is for the up keep on the roads, and one is upkeep of the lakes.

I know i pay DNR registration on my boat and i Pay transportation dept for my tabs on my boat trailer, but i also dont fish out of my boat trailer.

Just throwing it out there to see what comes back

[Sandmannd]

I would agree with you MuleShack. At least it's a pretty minimal expense and as Minnesotans, do we expect any less?

[SomethingFishy*]

 Originally Posted By: MuleShack

Now that you have to register wheel houses as trailers, isn't it considered double dipping by the state to have to register the house with the state for transportation registration as well as DNR for housing license?

You are not required to have a shelter liscense unless you leave the house unattended. Think of it as you have to have and pay for a driver's liscense and an vehicle liscense.

They dropped the shelter tag requirment and had to make up the revunue somewhere, so they added it on to the big houses which should increase their revunue stream.

[fishguyd]

who would have ever thought that you would be taking a fish house to an elevator to get it weighed so you could leaglly pull it down the road to go fishing? Kinda Funny. One thing I wish they (the DMV) would crack down on are the guys putting 20 ft boats on 16ft trailers with donut tires--and especially the moron dealers who sell these "packages" to the public that dont know better to lower the price $500. NOt safe or realistic.

[gunerboy]

do you still have to have a shelter lic also?thanks

[Big Buck Buster]

Yes, if it is left unattended.

[Jesse Drummer]

The state should give me uncle sams ssn# so I can claim him as a dependent to increase my tax refund stream! lol

[Sandmannd]

Question, lets say I license a house and a buddy wants to use it and I'm not there. No problems right? As long as it has a license my buddies can use it?

[Nutty Fisherman]

yes they can If you are on fish I will be your buddy to.