LD 1914
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of the State. These ordinances requiring registration shall be are
equally applicable to all persons without distinction based on
tribal membership. The Passamaquoddy Tribe and the Penobscot Nation
shall report the deer, moose, bear and other wildlife killed and
registered within their respective Indian territories or within any
public or private right-of-way and within any railroad, utility or
other right-of-way bordered on one or both sides by Passamaquoddy
Indian territory to the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and
Wildlife of the State at such times as the commissioner deems
determines appropriate. The records of registration of the
Passamaquoddy Tribe and the Penobscot Nation shall must be
available, at all times, for inspection and examination by the
commissioner.

 
7. Transportation of game. Fish lawfully taken within Indian
territory or in waters subject to commission regulation and
wildlife lawfully taken within Indian territory or within any
public or private right-of-way and within any railroad, utility
or other right-of-way bordered on one or both sides by
Passamaquoddy Indian territory and registered pursuant to
ordinances adopted by the Passamaquoddy Tribe and the Penobscot
Nation, may be transported within the State.

 
Sec. 3. 30 MRSA §6210, sub-§2, as amended by PL 1995, c. 388, §7 and
affected by §8, is further amended to read:

 
2. Joint authority of tribal and state law enforcement
officers. Law enforcement officers appointed by the Passamaquoddy
Tribe or the Penobscot Nation have the authority within their
respective Indian territories and state and county law
enforcement officers have the authority within both Indian
territories to enforce rules or regulations adopted by the
commission under section 6207, subsection 3 and to enforce all
laws of the State other than those over which the Passamaquoddy
Tribe or the Penobscot Nation has exclusive jurisdiction under
section 6209-A, subsection 1 and section 6209-B, subsection 1,
respectively. Law enforcement officers appointed by the
Passamaquoddy Tribe and state and county law enforcement officers
have the authority over any public or private right-of-way and
over any railroad, utility or other right-of-way that are not
owned by the tribe but bordered on one or both sides by
Passamaquoddy Indian territory to enforce the tribe's ordinances
adopted under sections 6206 and 6207, subsection 1 and to enforce
the criminal, juvenile, civil and domestic relations laws of the
State.

 
Sec. 4. 30 MRSA §6210, sub-§5 is enacted to read:

 
5.__Penalties and fines.__Any civil penalties or criminal
fines imposed for a violation of any tribal or State law within


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