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LD 1531 Title Page An Act To End the Use of Wire Neck Snares LD 1531 Title Page
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §10053, sub-§8, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 414, Pt. A,
§2 and affected by c. 614, §9, is amended to read:

 
8. Animal damage control. The coordination of animal damage
control functions throughout the State, including supplemental
assistance for the control of coyotes and other nuisance wildlife
that exceeds normal funding and staffing levels within the
department; and

 
Sec. 2. 12 MRSA §10108, sub-§11, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 655, Pt. B,
§30 and affected by §422, is repealed.

 
SUMMARY

 
This bill ends the use of wire neck snares by repealing the
coyote control program and by removing the responsibility the
Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Bureau of Resource
Management has in assisting in the control of coyotes as part of
the bureau's animal damage control functions.


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