(2)__Killing or wounding a moose, caribou, deer or elk at any time or any other wild animal in closed season.

7.__Muskrat. The commissioner may declare an open season on muskrats that are polluting water supplies or damaging property if the owner makes a written complaint to that effect to the commissioner.

8.__Raccoons.__ The commissioner may suspend the game laws relating to raccoons in such restricted localities and for such periods of time as the commissioner finds it advisable to relieve excessive damage being done by raccoons to sweet corn or other crops.__The commissioner may suspend subsection 6 for the purpose of allowing dogs to be used in hunting and killing raccoons, providing the dogs are under the personal supervision of the owner at all times, for such periods of time as the commissioner finds it advisable.

CHAPTER 923

FISH: FISHING SEASONS AND RESTRICTIONS

SUBCHAPTER 1

SEASONS, RULEMAKING AND SPECIAL REGULATIONS

§12451.__Application of laws

1.__Waters covered by provisions relating to fish.__This Part so far as it relates to fish of all varieties and fishways applies to fish and fishways in the inland waters of the State.

2.__Great ponds.__A person on foot may engage in any activity on the great ponds not inconsistent with any other law or regulation of the State or its political subdivisions.

3.__Ponds of 10 acres or less.__Fishing in a pond of 10 acres or less, whether natural or artificial, formed on a brook, stream or river, is governed by the same laws and rules that govern fishing in the brook, stream or river on which the pond is situated.__This subsection does not apply to private ponds as set forth in section 12508.

§12452.__Consolidation of rules