Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §7001, sub-§5-B is enacted to read:

5-B.__Drowning set.__"Drowning set" means a trap set for wild animals that is:

A.__Set completely underwater; and

B.__Constructed in such a way as to reasonably ensure the drowning of any species of trapped furbearer that would reasonably be expected to visit the set location and be held in the type of trap used at the set.

Sec. 2. 12 MRSA §7001, sub-§39, as repealed and replaced by PL 1989, c. 493, §1, is repealed.

Sec. 3. 12 MRSA §7036, sub-§7 is enacted to read:

7.__Trapping by agents of the commissioner.__A person, except a full-time department employee, serving as an agent of the commissioner for purposes of animal damage control, including animal control officers appointed pursuant to Title 7, section 3947, must satisfy the licensing requirements of section 7133 prior to trapping or attempting to trap any wild animal.

Sec. 4. 12 MRSA §7076, sub-§4-B, as amended by PL 1999, c. 403, §4, is further amended to read:

4-B. Resident disabled veteran. A resident disabled veteran may apply to the commissioner for one or more of the following complimentary permits and licenses: a license to hunt with a firearm, a license to trap, a license to fish, archery hunting licenses as provided in sections 7102-A and 7102-B, a pheasant hunting permit as provided in section 7106-B and a muzzle-loading hunting license as provided in section 7107-A. The commissioner must shall issue the permit, license or licenses requested under this subsection if the commissioner determines the applicant is a resident disabled veteran and is not otherwise ineligible to hold that permit or license. For the purposes of this subsection, "resident disabled veteran" means a person who:

A. Is a resident as defined in section 7001, subsection 32;

B. Is a veteran as defined in Title 37-B, section 505, subsection 1, paragraph A, subparagraph (5); and

C. Has a service-connected disability evaluated at:

(1) One hundred percent; or