LD 978
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LD 978 Title Page An Act to Allow a Subpermittee on a Moose Hunting Permit to Be Named after the ... LD 978 Title Page
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §7463-A, sub-§4-A, as repealed and replaced by PL
1993, c. 574, §22, is amended to read:

 
4-A. Subpermittees. A person may not hunt moose with a
permittee unless the person is a subpermittee authorized in
accordance with this subsection. An applicant for a moose permit
may indicate on the application filed pursuant to subsection 6
the name of a subpermittee-designate and the name of an alternate
subpermittee-designate. If the applicant is issued a moose
permit under subsection 7, the subpermittee-designate becomes a
subpermittee and the permittee may authorize the subpermittee to
participate in the moose hunt with the permittee. The permittee
may authorize the alternate subpermittee-designate to participate
in the hunt in place of the subpermittee-designate if the
permittee notifies the department of the authorization at least 5
business days prior to the first day of the moose season, in
which case, the alternate subpermittee-designate becomes the
subpermittee. Whether or not a permittee indicates on the
application filed pursuant to subsection 6 the name of a
subpermittee-designate, the permittee may designate a
subpermittee or change the designation of a subpermittee if the
permittee notifies the department of the name of the subpermittee
at least 5 business days prior to the first day of the moose
season. The permittee may choose not to authorize a subpermittee
to participate in the hunt, but a subpermittee must always be in
the presence of the permittee while hunting moose. A
subpermittee is not in the presence of the permittee if contact
between the permittee and the subpermittee requires visual or
audio enhancement devices, including binoculars or citizen band
radios. A permittee may hunt moose with no more than one
authorized subpermittee.

 
SUMMARY

 
This bill allows a person who is awarded a moose permit to
name a subpermittee after the moose lottery if that person
notifies the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife of the
name of the subpermittee at least 5 business days prior to the
first day of the moose season.


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