management areas and access sites

1.__Public use. The commissioner may, pursuant to section 10104, adopt rules regulating hunting, fishing, trapping or other public use of any wildlife management area or wildlife sanctuary as designated in section 12706, subsection 1, except that a landowner may not be prohibited from operating any vehicle on land on which that person is domiciled.

2.__Natural products. The commissioner may harvest and sell natural products of the land from land owned by the department.

3.__Trapping. The commissioner may regulate the trapping of wild animals on wildlife sanctuaries or closed territories.

4.__Fees.__The commissioner may establish reasonable fees for admission to the Maine Wildlife Park and the Steve Powell Wildlife Management Area at Perkins Township, Sagadahoc County, known as Swan Island and Little Swan Island.

5.__Access sites to inland and coastal waters.__The commissioner may, pursuant to section 10104, subsection 1, adopt rules regulating public use of department-owned or department- maintained sites that provide public access to inland or coastal waters.__The commissioner may establish reasonable fees for use of these sites by members of the public as necessary to help defray the cost of routine maintenance and security.

§12702.__Rule violations; state-owned wildlife management areas

Notwithstanding section 10602, a person who violates a rule regulating state-owned wildlife management areas commits a civil violation for which a forfeiture of not less than $100 nor more than $500 may be adjudged.

§12703. Rule violations; state game farms

Notwithstanding section 10602, a person who violates a rule regulating state game farms commits a civil violation for which a forfeiture of not less than $100 nor more than $500 may be adjudged.

§12704.__Permit to hunt, trap, possess, band and transport wild

animals and wild birds for scientific purposes

The commissioner may issue a permit to any person, permitting that person to hunt, trap, possess, band and transport wild animals and wild birds for scientific purposes.