An Act To Improve Permit Oversight for the Cutting of Christmas Trees and Evergreen Boughs
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §8842-A, sub-§1, ¶A, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 452, Pt. F, §40 and affected by Pt. X, §2, is amended to read:
A. Cut Christmas trees or evergreen boughs on land of another without securing and possessing written permission or a bill of sale from the owner or the owner's authorized agents. Only one such permit is needed per work crew. Violation of this paragraph is a Class E crime; or
SUMMARY
This bill requires all members of a work crew with permission to cut Christmas trees or evergreen boughs on the property of another to possess a copy of the landowner's permission.