Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §7501, as amended by PL 1981, c. 563, §1, is further amended to read:

§7501. Attacking domestic animals or destroying property

Except as provided in sections 7502 and 7504, any person may lawfully kill, or cause to be killed, any wild animal, night or day, found in the act of attacking, worrying or wounding that person's domestic animals or domestic birds or destroying that person's property. Any person who kills a wild animal by authority of this section shall report the incident to a game warden the Maine Warden Service as provided in section 7502, subsections 3 and 4.

Sec. 2. 12 MRSA §7502, as amended by PL 1981, c. 563, §2, is further amended to read:

§7502. Damage to crops or orchards

1. Permission to kill nuisance animals. Except as provided in section 7504, the cultivator, owner, mortgagee or keeper of any orchard or growing crop, except grass all types of grasses, clover and grain fields, or the owner or occupier of land on which such an orchard or crop are located, may take or kill deer or other wild animals night or day, when they the wild animals are in the act of doing substantial damage to the orchard or crop. For purposes of this section, corn shall is not be considered grain.

2. Employment of agents. That A person may authorize a member of his that person's immediate family or someone employed by him to take or kill those deer or other wild animals pursuant to subsection 1. When he that person employs someone not domiciled on the land where the damage is being done outside of the immediate family to take or kill the deer or other wild animals, he that person shall apply to the a game warden in charge of the district in which the orchard or crop are located for written permission to employ such a person and shall obtain permission from the warden in writing.

3. Report to Maine Warden Service; dressing of carcass. The person by whom or under whose direction the deer or other wild animal is wounded, taken or killed under this section shall:

A. Within 12 hours, report all the facts relative to the act to a game warden the Maine Warden Service, stating the time and place of the wounding, taking or killing; and