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An Act To Clarify That Senior Lifetime Hunting Licenses Include the Right To Hunt Turkey
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §10851, sub-§1, ¶D, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 414, Pt. A, §2 and as affected by c. 614, §9, is amended to read:
D.  For a resident 70 years of age or older. A person who holds a valid senior lifetime license under this section upon turning 70 years of age may obtain at no cost a hunting license, fishing license, trapping license, archery license under section 11109, subsection 7, a pheasant hunting permit under section 11156, a muzzle-loading hunting license under section 11109, subsection 4, a migratory waterfowl permit under section 11157, a spring and fall wild turkey hunting permit under section 11155 and a bear hunting permit under section 11151 and may renew at no cost a guide license under section 12853. A person who is 70 years of age or older may purchase a senior lifetime license that entitles the holder to all the privileges described in this paragraph for a one-time $8 fee.
Sec. 2. Transfer; Carrying Balances, General Fund account. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no later than September 15, 2007, the State Controller shall transfer $16,700 from the Carrying Balances, General Fund account within the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to the unappropriated surplus of the General Fund, and no later than September 15, 2008 the State Controller shall transfer $16,700 from the Carrying Balances, General Fund account within the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to the unappropriated surplus of the General Fund.
Effective September 20, 2007