Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §6748-A, sub-§1, as amended by PL 1993, c. 740, §1, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:

1.__License required.__It is unlawful for a person to engage in the activities authorized under this section without a current sea urchin dragging license.

Sec. 2. 12 MRSA §6748-A, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 416, §2, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:

2.__Licensed activity.__The holder of a sea urchin dragging license may use the vessel named on the holder's license to drag for sea urchins.__The license also authorizes the captain and crew members aboard the vessel named on the license to drag for and possess, ship, transport and sell sea urchins, except that the captain and crew members may not drag for sea urchins if the license holder is not aboard the vessel.

Sec. 3. 12 MRSA §6748-A, sub-§§2-A and 2-B are enacted to read:

2-A.__Change of named individual.__A person who is the owner of a vessel named on a sea urchin dragging license in 2000 but not the individual named on that license may apply to the commissioner to be the individual named on that sea urchin dragging license in 2002.__The person must provide written notarized documentation to the commissioner authorizing the change in license name by the individual who was named on that license in 2000.__If no such request is received by the commissioner by December 1, 2001, then the individual named on the 2002 sea urchin dragging license will be the same as the individual named on the 2001 sea urchin dragging license and no future changes of the named individual will be permitted.

2-B.__Exemptions.__Notwithstanding subsection 2, the commissioner may authorize a person to fish for or take sea urchins from a vessel when the person holding a sea urchin dragging license that contains the name of that vessel is not on board if:

A.__The holder of the sea urchin dragging license documents to the commissioner that an illness or disability temporarily prevents the license holder from fishing for or taking sea urchins from that vessel and requests in writing to the commissioner that the commissioner authorize another person to use that vessel to fish for or take sea urchins from the vessel;