5.__Restrictions.__The following restrictions apply during the primitive muzzle-loading open season as established in subsection 4.

A.__Section 7457, subsection 1, paragraph H, as regards the commissioner's authority to regulate the harvest of anterless deer, is applicable during the primitive muzzle- loading hunting season.

B.__Deer tags for the primitive muzzle-loading open season must be issued for use in the same manner as regular deer tags.

C.__Except as provided in this section, chapters 701 to 721 relating to deer apply to the taking of deer with primitive muzzle-loading firearms.

Sec. 5. 12 MRSA §7161, sub-§1, ķE, as amended by PL 2001, c. 690, Pt. B, §4 and affected by §5, is further amended to read:

E. For a resident 70 years of age or older. A person who holds a valid senior lifetime license under this section upon turning 70 years of age may obtain at no cost a hunting license, fishing license, trapping license, archery license under section 7102-A, a pheasant hunting permit under section 7106-B, a muzzle-loading hunting license under section 7107-A, a primitive muzzle-loading hunting license under section 7107-B, a migratory waterfowl permit under section 7109, a bear hunting permit under section 7110 and renew a guide license under section 7311. A person who is 70 years of age or older may purchase a senior lifetime license that entitles the holder to all the privileges described in this paragraph for a one-time $8 fee.

Sec. 6. 12 MRSA §7377, sub-§1, as amended by PL 2001, c. 270, §1, is further amended to read:

1. Hunting. Notwithstanding section 7371 as it applies to subchapter II 2, any resident over 10 years of age and any member of the resident's immediate family over 10 years of age, as long as the hunter's license to hunt is not under suspension or revocation, may hunt without a license, including an archery hunting license and, a muzzle-loading hunting license and a primitive muzzle-loading hunting license, on any single plot of land: