D.__Require that an apprentice may enter Zone E only if the apprentice apprenticed in Zone E;

E.__Require that all transferees into Zone E go to the end of the waiting list;

F.__Require that all student licensees who fulfill the Zone E apprentice entry criteria go to the end of the apprentice waiting list; and

G.__Provide a family commercial transfer option.

Sec. 9. 12 MRSA §6448, sub-§1, ¶C, as enacted by PL 1999, c. 508, §3, is amended to read:

C. "New zone entrant" means a person who declares a limited-entry zone as that person's declared lobster zone but who did not hold in the previous licensing year a Class I, Class II or, Class III or noncommercial lobster and crab fishing license that identified that zone as the person's declared lobster zone.

Sec. 10. 12 MRSA §6448, sub-2, ¶¶A and C, as amended by PL 1999, c. 693, §1, are further amended to read:

A. After conducting a written survey in the zone, a lobster management policy council may propose to the commissioner an exit ratio to limit new zone entrants to the zone. The lobster management policy council may also propose to the commissioner a provision to exempt from the requirements of this section an individual who became eligible for but had not been issued a Class I, Class II or, Class III or noncommercial license pursuant to section 6421, subsection 5, paragraph C or H prior to January 1, 2000 and to allow that individual to declare the zone as that individual's declared lobster zone. The lobster management policy council is not required to submit the proposal to referendum and the proposed exit ratio does not need to receive approval through the survey in order to be forwarded to the commissioner.

C. Rules adopted under this subsection must establish an exit ratio between the number of individuals who declared that zone as their declared lobster zone in the year prior to the previous calendar year, but who did not declare that