LD 1482
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LR 1852
Item 1

 
SUMMARY

 
This bill makes several changes in the laws involving the
Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

 
1. In the law governing accident reports by whitewater trip
outfitters, it changes the amount of property damage requiring
a report from $100 to $1,000, which is consistent with other
reporting requirements for boating, and clarifies that the
reporting requirement for medical attention is for
professional medical attention.

 
2. It repeals laws requiring the department to publish
lists of bear and deer registration stations in a daily
newspaper.

 
3. It repeals the requirement that if rulemaking is
necessary to shorten the open season on deer, regulate the
taking of antlerless deer or create special hunting seasons,
the determination must be made and published by a certain
date.

 
4. It repeals the requirement that the disabled hunter,
trapper and angler advisory committee have a licensed
physician as a member.

 
5. It establishes the Becoming an Outdoors Woman program as
a program within the department.

 
6. It authorizes the department to issue complimentary
fishing licenses to persons with acquired brain injury.

 
7. It amends the law regarding deer tags so that the
department has flexibility in how the tag is issued.

 
8. It authorizes the department to sell extra copies of the
Maine Revised Statutes, Title 12, chapters 701 to 721, as
prepared and printed by the department to help offset the cost
of printing.

 
9. It repeals the requirements that a trespass reminder and
convicted felon statement be printed on licenses.

 
10. It establishes a reinstatement fee for licenses that
are suspended for failure to comply with court-ordered support
under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 19-A, section 2201.

 
11. It requires that bait and baitfish be sold in
containers that are composed in whole of biodegradable paper
or cardboard.


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