Water Usage Stamps

To all us yakers or canoers, fresh off the press from the ILDNR:

Water Usage Stamps: Owners of non-motorized watercraft, canoes, kayaks and paddle boats in Illinois are no longer required to have those watercraft titled/registered in Illinois, unless the vessels have a motor or sail. They are now required to purchase a 'Water Usage Stamp' for $6.00 per calendar year for the each of the first three vessels, and $3.00 each for any additional vessels. All of the new Water Usage Stamps (also known as Paddle Passes) passes must be purchased at the same time to receive the discount. Water Usage Stamps are mandatory. The stamps should be available over the counter from DNR Direct license and permit point of sale vendors beginning July 1, 2013. Use this link to find vendor locations for purchase of the water usage stamp:
License, Permits and Registrations : License and Permit Vendors

This can be found at:

News : Illinois DNR May 2013 Newsbits

WOW...good news. This change was long overdue

Anyone know how they are implementing the stamps? I have had a hard enough time getting my previous registration stickers and my county forest preserve stickers to stay connected to my kayak...especially if they ever got wet. Finally resorted to spray adhesive prior to sticking them on and still lost one of my registration stickers...