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| | | An Act To Reauthorize Funding for the Lobster Promotion |
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| | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | | Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §6455, sub-§5, as amended by PL 2001, c. 226, §1, is | | further amended to read: |
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| | | 5. Fund established; license surcharge assessed. The Lobster | | Promotion Fund, referred to in this subchapter as the "fund," is | | established to carry out the purposes of this subchapter. The | | department shall pay to the fund all money appropriated or | | received by the department for the purposes of this subchapter, | | except that the department may retain funds necessary to | | reimburse the department for the actual cost of collecting the | | license surcharges established in this subsection. The fund is | | capitalized from the following annual surcharges assessed on the | | following licenses issued by the department for calendar years | | 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, | | 2003, 2004 and 2005 to 2020: |
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| | | A. Class I crab and lobster licenses for persons 18 to 69 | | years of age, $31.25; |
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| | | B. Class II crab and lobster licenses, $62.50; |
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| | | C. Class III crab and lobster licenses, $93.75; |
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| | | D. Wholesale seafood licenses with lobster permits, $250; | | and |
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