Sec. 1. 14 MRSA §159-A, sub-§4, ¶¶B and C, as amended by PL 1995, c. 566, §1, are further amended to read:

B. For an injury suffered in any case where when permission to pursue any recreational or harvesting activities was granted for a consideration other than the consideration, if any, paid to the following:

(1) The landowner or the landowner's agent by the State; or

(2) The landowner or the landowner's agent for use of the premises on which the injury was suffered, as long as the premises are not used primarily for commercial recreational purposes and as long as the user has not been granted the exclusive right to make use of the premises for recreational activities; or

C. For an injury caused, by acts of persons to whom permission to pursue any recreational or harvesting activities was granted, to other persons to whom the person granting permission, or the owner, lessee, manager, holder of an easement or occupant of the premises, owed a duty to keep the premises safe or to warn of danger. ; or

Sec. 2. 14 MRSA §159-A, sub-§4, ¶D is enacted to read:

D.__For an injury caused to a person who has been invited onto the premises by the owner, lessee, manager, holder of an easement or occupant.

SUMMARY

This bill clarifies that the limit on liability for recreational or harvesting activities does not apply to a person who has been invited onto the premises.