Beginning January 1, 2002, a person may not operate or place a motorboat or personal watercraft on the inland waters of the State unless a valid lake and river protection sticker issued annually under section 7794-B is affixed to both sides of the bow above the water line and approximately 3 inches behind the validation sticker required under section 7794.

Sec. A-2. Effective date. This Part takes effect when approved.

PART B

Sec. B-1. 12 MRSA §10001, sub-§3-A is enacted to read:

3-A.__Aquarium.__"Aquarium" means an enclosed container used in importing, possessing or displaying nonnative and exotic species of fish or other aquatic organisms that has a closed operating system, that is located within a home, exhibition building or other permanent all-season structure and that does not allow the discharge of water or aquatic organisms into the inland waters of the State.

Sec. B-2. 12 MRSA §10001, sub-§9, ¶B, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 414, Pt. A, §2 and affected by Pt. D, §7, is amended to read:

B. In Washington County: East Grand Lake; Mud Lake; St. Croix River; Spednic Lake; and Grand Falls flowage.

Sec. B-3. 12 MRSA §10001, sub-§10, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 414, Pt. A, §2 and affected by Pt. D, §7, is repealed.

Sec. B-4. 12 MRSA §10001, sub-§20, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 414, Pt. A, §2 and affected by Pt. D, §7, is amended to read:

20. Exotic. "Exotic" means of foreign nature or character, not native, introduced from abroad, and not fully naturalized or acclimatized.

Sec. B-5. 12 MRSA §10001, sub-§22, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 414, Pt. A, §2 and affected by Pt. D, §7, is amended to read:

22. Fish, the noun. "Fish" means a cold-blooded, completely aquatic vertebrate characteristically having gills, fins and an elongated streamlined body usually covered with scales, and includes any physical part of a fish. The term refers to fish living predominantly in inland waters, and anadromus to anadromous and catadromus catadromous fish while in inland