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PUBLIC LAWS OF MAINE
First Regular Session of the 121st

CHAPTER 277
S.P. 411 - L.D. 1280

An Act To Improve Boating in Maine

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

     Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §7801, sub-§33, as amended by PL 1999, c. 436, §1, is further amended to read:

     33. Operating airmobile or motorboat that exceeds noise limits. A person is guilty of operating a watercraft that exceeds the noise limit if that person operates may not operate an airmobile or motorboat in such a manner as to exceed:

A person who violates this subsection commits a civil violation for which a fine of not less than $300 nor more than $500 may be adjudged.
This subsection does not apply to motorboats that are operating in a regatta or race approved by the commissioner under section 7797.

     Sec. 2. 12 MRSA §7901-A, sub-§12, ¶A, as amended by PL 2001, c. 667, Pt. A, §30, is further amended by repealing subparagraph (30).

     Sec. 3. 38 MRSA §423, first ¶, as amended by PL 1989, c. 502, Pt. B, §49, is further amended to read:

     No person, firm, corporation or other legal entity may discharge, spill or permit to be discharged sewage, septic fluids, garbage or other pollutants from watercraft, as defined in Title 12, section 7791, subsection 14, and including houseboats, into inland waters of this State, or on the ice thereof, or on the banks thereof in such a manner that the same may fall or be washed into such waters, or in such manner that the drainage therefrom may flow into such waters.

Effective September 13, 2003, unless otherwise indicated.

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