Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §7406, sub-§22 is enacted to read:

22.__Hunting without consent.__A person is guilty of hunting without consent if that person:

A.__Hunts deer on another person's land in the Town of Cranberry Isles without first obtaining written permission to hunt on that land from the landowner or the landowner's representative.

Sec. 2. 12 MRSA §7457, sub-§1, ¶D, as amended by PL 1995, c. 455, §30, is further amended to read:

D. There is a continual closed season on deer in the following places:

(1) Mount Desert Island;

(2) Cross Island in Washington County;

(3) Scotch Island in Washington County;

(4) The Town of Isle au Haut and the islands within the confines of the Town of Isle au Haut in Knox County;

(5) Wildlife sanctuaries that have been established by law, except as provided in section 7653;

(6) All of Swan Island in the Town of Swan's Island in Hancock County;

(7) The Town of Islesboro in Waldo County, except that a person may hunt deer in that town with bow and arrow from the first day of the special archery season on deer, established in accordance with section 7102-A, subsection 6, paragraph C, to the end of the regular firearm season on deer of each calendar year in Waldo County; and

(8) The whole of Cranberry Isles in Hancock County; and

(9) The whole of Long Island in Long Island Plantation in Hancock County.

Sec. 3. Expanded archery deer hunting season for Town of Cranberry Isles. The Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife shall establish, pursuant to the rule-making authority set out in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 12, section 7102-B, an expanded archery deer hunting season for the Town of Cranberry Isles beginning with the hunting season in 2001.