CHAPTER 142

H.P. 536 - L.D. 759

An Act To Provide For Special Antlerless Deer Permits to

Certain Disabled Hunters

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §11152, sub-§2, as affected by PL 2003, c. 614, §9 and repealed and replaced by c. 655, Pt. B, §120 and affected by §422, is amended to read:

2. Authority to regulate taking of antlerless deer. The commissioner may regulate the taking of antlerless deer within an area of the State as necessary to maintain deer populations in balance with available habitat if the demarcation of each area follows recognizable physical boundaries such as rivers, roads and railroad rights-of-way. This subsection does not apply to a person with a special antlerless deer permit under subsection 7.

Sec. 2. 12 MRSA §11152, sub-§7 is enacted to read:

7.__Special antlerless deer permit.__The commissioner shall issue a special antlerless deer permit to an eligible person who is a resident and is suffering from the loss of or the permanent loss of use of both lower extremities.__The commissioner shall issue a permit upon application and after the applicant verifies that person's ambulatory disability with a letter signed by a physician licensed in the State confirming the person's condition.__A person who is issued a special antlerless deer permit under this subsection may take an antlerless deer in any part of the State open to the taking of antlerless deer pursuant to subsection 3.