C.__The bait is used by the department or pursuant to a permit granted by the department to an accredited university for scientific or research purposes, but in no event for the purpose of killing bear.

Sec. A-13. 12 MRSA §7452, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 1979, c. 420, §1, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:

1.__Unlawfully hunting or pursuing bear with dogs; hounding.__ The following provisions govern hunting or pursuing bear with dogs, also known as hounding.

A.__It is unlawful to use a dog or dogs to hunt or pursue bear, except as provided in paragraph B.

B.__The use of a dog or dogs to hunt or pursue bear is lawful in the following circumstances:

(1)__The dog or dogs are used by state or federal employees to pursue a specific offending animal when the employees, or their designees, are acting in their official capacity for purposes of protecting livestock, domestic animals, threatened or endangered wildlife, public or private property or public safety; or

(2)__The dog or dogs are used by the department or pursuant to a permit granted by the department to an accredited university for scientific or research purposes, but in no event for the purpose of killing bear.

Sec. A-14. 12 MRSA §7452, sub-§1-A, as amended by PL 1989, c. 493, §30, is repealed.

Sec. A-15. 12 MRSA §7452, sub-§1-B, as enacted by PL 1987, c. 696, §10, is amended to read:

1-B. Illegal harvest of bear. A person is guilty of illegally harvesting bear if may not, without the permission of the person conducting the hunt that person kills, kill or wounds wound a bear that is treed or held at bay by another person's dog or dogs person.