An Act To Correct Errors and Inconsistencies in Marine Resources Laws
Sec. 1. 3 MRSA §959, sub-§1, ¶G, as amended by PL 2005, c. 477, §1, is further amended to read:
(1) Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in 2007; and
(2) Advisory Board for the Licensing of Taxidermists in 2007 ; and .
(3) Atlantic Salmon Commission in 2011.
Sec. 2. 5 MRSA §12004-G, sub-§20-A, as amended by PL 2007, c. 240, Pt. QQ, §1, is repealed.
Sec. 3. 12 MRSA §6022, sub-§16 is enacted to read:
Sec. 4. 12 MRSA §6071, sub-§1, as amended by PL 2007, c. 695, Pt. C, §2, is further amended to read:
Sec. 5. 12 MRSA §6137, as enacted by PL 2007, c. 240, Pt. QQ, §4, is repealed.
Sec. 6. 12 MRSA §6138, as enacted by PL 2007, c. 240, Pt. QQ, §5, is repealed.
Sec. 7. 12 MRSA §6301, sub-§2, ¶Q, as amended by PL 1999, c. 491, §1 and affected by §9, is further amended to read:
Sec. 8. 12 MRSA §6301, sub-§2, ¶R, as enacted by PL 1999, c. 491, §2 and affected by §9, is amended to read:
Sec. 9. 12 MRSA §6301, sub-§2, ¶S is enacted to read:
Sec. 10. 12 MRSA §6301, sub-§2, ¶T is enacted to read:
Sec. 11. 12 MRSA §6301, sub-§2, ¶U is enacted to read:
Sec. 12. 12 MRSA §6371, sub-§2, as amended by PL 2001, c. 421, Pt. B, §16 and affected by Pt. C, §1, is further amended to read:
Sec. 13. 12 MRSA §6402, first ¶, as amended by PL 2009, c. 151, §5 and c. 394, §3, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:
The commissioner shall suspend the lobster and crab fishing license of a license holder or the nonresident lobster and crab landing permit of a permit holder adjudicated in court of violating section 6434. This suspension is for 3 years from the date of adjudication. For a 3rd or subsequent adjudication, the commissioner may permanently revoke the license holder's license.
Sec. 14. 12 MRSA §6409, as reallocated by RR 1999, c. 2, §13, is amended to read:
§ 6409. Suspension of license for failure to appear, answer or pay
If a license is suspended pursuant to Title 14, section 3142, the suspension remains in effect and that person is ineligible to obtain or hold a license until the person pays the fine. On payment of the fine and on condition of payment of a $25 reinstatement administrative fee to the department, the clerk of the court in which the suspension was ordered shall rescind the suspension and notify the department, which, upon receipt of the $25 reinstatement fee, shall delete any record of the suspension from that person's record is rescinded and the eligibility to obtain or hold a license reinstated. For the purposes of this section, "fine" has the same meaning as in Title 14, section 3141, subsection 1.
Sec. 15. 12 MRSA §6410, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 520, §3, is amended to read:
§ 6410. Suspension of license for failure to comply with court order of support
If a person's eligibility to obtain or hold a license or registration is suspended pursuant to Title 19A, section 2201, the suspension remains in effect until the person is in compliance with a court order of support. On condition of payment of a $25 reinstatement administrative fee to the department, the suspension is rescinded and the person's eligibility to obtain or hold a license reinstated.
Sec. 16. 12 MRSA §6411 is enacted to read:
§ 6411. Refusal to renew or reissue license for failure to file or failure to pay state tax obligations
If a person’s eligibility to obtain a license is suspended pursuant to Title 36, section 175, the suspension is in effect until the State Tax Assessor issues a certificate of good standing. On condition of payment of a $25 administrative fee to the department, the suspension is rescinded and the person’s eligibility to obtain a license reinstated.
Sec. 17. 12 MRSA §6434, sub-§4, as repealed and replaced by PL 2007, c. 695, Pt. A, §15, is amended to read:
Restitution imposed under this subsection is in addition to any penalty imposed under subsection 3-A.
Sec. 18. 12 MRSA §6451, sub-§1, as amended by PL 2009, c. 213, Pt. G, §4, is further amended to read:
Sec. 19. 12 MRSA §6505-C, sub-§5, as enacted by PL 1995, c. 536, Pt. A, §8, is amended to read:
Sec. 20. 12 MRSA §6533, as amended by PL 2009, c. 396, §2, is further amended to read:
§ 6533. Training required to act as a scallop or sea urchin tender
The commissioner may not issue a sea urchin and scallop diving tender license under section 6535 to a person or allow a A person to may not act as a tender under a license issued pursuant to section 6535, section 6701, subsection 5, paragraph B or section 6748, subsection 4, paragraph B unless that person has met the diving tender safety requirements established in rule.
Sec. 21. 12 MRSA §6535, as amended by PL 2009, c. 213, Pt. G, §11 and c. 396, §3, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:
§ 6535. Sea urchin and scallop diving tender license
As long as one person present on a boat engaged as a platform for the harvesting of sea urchins and scallops by hand has met the tender safety requirements adopted by rule pursuant to section 6533, all other persons present on the boat may operate the boat or engage in culling activities or otherwise handle the harvested product. An individual who engages in harvesting activities in accordance with a license issued under section 6701 or 6748 may not be considered as the person who has met the tender safety requirements adopted by rule pursuant to section 6533.
Sec. 22. 12 MRSA §6701, as amended by PL 2009, c. 213, Pt. G, §17 and c. 396, §§5 to 7, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:
§ 6701. Scallop license
Sec. 23. 12 MRSA §6721-A, sub-§2, as amended by PL 2007, c. 607, Pt. A, §5, is further amended to read:
Sec. 24. 12 MRSA §6729, sub-§1, ¶C, as amended by PL 2007, c. 607, Pt. A, §12, is further amended to read:
Sec. 25. 12 MRSA §6729, sub-§1, ¶D, as enacted by PL 2007, c. 607, Pt. A, §12, is amended to read:
Sec. 26. 12 MRSA §6729, sub-§1, ¶E is enacted to read:
Sec. 27. 12 MRSA §6729, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 319, §2, is amended to read:
Sec. 28. 12 MRSA §6748, as amended by PL 2009, c. 213, Pt. G, §23 and c. 396, §8, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:
§ 6748. Handfishing sea urchin license
This subsection is repealed December 31, 2011.
Sec. 29. 12 MRSA §6749-Q, sub-§1-B is enacted to read:
Sec. 30. 12 MRSA §6803-A, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 2009, c. 283, §1, is amended to read:
Sec. 31. 12 MRSA §6851, sub-§2-D, as amended by PL 2003, c. 170, §4, is further amended to read:
Sec. 32. 12 MRSA §6856, sub-§3-A, as enacted by PL 2007, c. 15, §2 and affected by §6, is amended to read:
Sec. 33. 12 MRSA §12760, sub-§3, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 414, Pt. A, §2 and affected by c. 614, §9, is amended to read:
Sec. 34. 12 MRSA §12804, sub-§1, ¶D, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 414, Pt. A, §2 and affected by c. 614, §9, is amended to read:
Sec. 35. 37-B MRSA §1112, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 460, §3, is amended to read:
§ 1112. Administration
The department shall administer this chapter. In carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the department shall consult as appropriate with other state agencies, including the Department of Conservation, the Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, the Department of Marine Resources, the Department of Public Safety, the Department of Transportation, the Maine Land Use Regulation Commission , the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission and the State Planning Office, for their aid and assistance.
Sec. 36. 37-B MRSA §1119, sub-§3, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 460, §3, is amended to read:
Sec. 37. 38 MRSA §480-B, sub-§10, ¶A, as enacted by PL 2005, c. 116, §2, is amended to read:
Sec. 38. 38 MRSA §480-U, sub-§2, ¶A, as amended by PL 2005, c. 330, §17, is further amended to read:
(1) Is a coastal wetland or is located within 250 feet of a coastal wetland;
(2) Is a great pond;
(3) Contains endangered or threatened plant species as defined in Title 12, section 544;
(4) Contains any type of palustrine natural community of which there are 20 or fewer occurrences in the State;
(5) Contains any of the following resources:
(a) Habitat for species appearing on the official state or federal lists of endangered or threatened species when there is evidence that the species is present;
(b) As defined by rule by the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, whether or not the resource has been mapped, high-value and moderate-value deer wintering areas; deer travel corridors; high-value and moderate-value waterfowl or wading bird habitats, including nesting and feeding areas; shorebird nesting, feeding or staging areas; or seabird nesting islands; or
(c) Critical spawning and nesting areas for Atlantic salmon as defined by rule by the Atlantic Salmon Commission Department of Marine Resources whether or not mapped;
(6) Is located within 250 feet of the normal high water line and within the same watershed of any lake or pond classified as GPA under section 465A;
(7) Is a bog dominated by ericaceous shrubs, sedges and sphagnum moss and usually having a saturated water regime, except that applications proposing reclamation of previously mined peat bogs may be considered;
(8) Is land adjacent to the main stem of a major river, as classified in section 467, that is inundated with floodwater during a 100-year flood event and that under normal circumstances supports a prevalence of wetland vegetation, typically adapted for life in saturated soils; or
(9) Contains at least 20,000 square feet of aquatic vegetation, emergent marsh vegetation or open water, except for artificial ponds or impoundments, during most of the growing season in most years; except that cranberry cultivation is allowed more than 250 feet from the edge of the area of aquatic vegetation, emergent marsh vegetation or open water.
A project to cultivate indigenous cranberries may be located in wetlands described in subparagraphs (6) and (7) only if the project location is a natural cranberry bog and provisions of paragraph D are met. For purposes of this paragraph, "natural cranberry bog" means an area with indigenous large cranberries, Vaccinium macrocarpon Ait., comprising more than 50% of the cover in the herbaceous layer; and "cover in the herbaceous layer" means all herbaceous or woody vegetation less than 10 inches in height.
Sec. 39. 38 MRSA §636, sub-§7, ¶B, as amended by PL 1999, c. 401, Pt. BB, §19, is further amended to read: