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members of that person's family, provided that the person
takes or possesses no more than one bushel in any day and
provided also that the alewives are not taken from any waters
in which a municipality or other person has been granted
exclusive rights under section 6131;

 
B.__A person may fish for or possess alewives from inland
waters if that person has been granted fishing rights under
section 6131; and

 
C.__A person may take suckers for use as bait for fishing in
inland waters as provided in section 12551-A without a
permit under subsection 2.

 
Sec. 22. 14 MRSA §251, sub-§3, as amended by PL 1979, c. 663, §76, is
further amended to read:

 
3. Trial by jury. Upon demand, the right to a speedy and
public trail trial by an impartial jury of the county wherein the
contempt was allegedly committed. This requirement shall may not
be construed to apply to contempts committed in the presence of
the court or so near thereto as to interfere directly with the
administration of justice or to apply to the misbehavior,
misconduct or disobedience of any officer of the court in respect
to the writs, orders or process of the court.

 
Sec. 23. 14 MRSA §6521, first ¶ is amended to read:

 
Commissioners in all cases shall make and sign a written
return of their proceedings, and make return thereof with their
warrant to the court from which it issued. Their report may be
confirmed, recommitted or set aside, and new proceedings be had
as before. When conformed confirmed, judgment shall must be
entered accordingly and recorded by the clerk and by the register
of deeds of the district where the estate is.

 
Sec. 24. 17-A MRSA §1348-B, sub-§2, as amended by PL 2005, c. 265, §12
and c. 288, §2, is repealed and the following enacted in its
place:

 
2.__If during the period of deferment the attorney for the
State has probable cause to believe that a person who was granted
deferred disposition pursuant to section 1348-A has violated a
court-imposed deferment requirement, the attorney for the State
may move the court to terminate the remainder of the period of
deferment and impose sentence.__Following notice and hearing, if
the attorney for the State proves by a preponderance of the
evidence that the person has inexcusably failed to comply with a
court-imposed deferment requirement, the court may continue the
running of the period of deferment with the requirements


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