LD 128
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LD 128 Title Page An Act to Provide Funding for a Full-time Warden to Monitor Brandy Pond in the ... Page 2 of 2
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §7035, sub-§1, ¶B, as amended by PL 1993, c. 265, §1,
is further amended to read:

 
B. A municipality or political subdivision of the State
may not enact any ordinance, law or rule regulating the
hunting, trapping or fishing for any species of fish or
wildlife; the operation, registration or numbering of
watercraft or snowmobiles; or any other subject matter of
chapter 715, subchapters I 1 and II 2. For purposes of
this paragraph, except as provided in subparagraphs (3)
and (4), the regulation of fishing includes the regulation
of ice fishing shacks. Nothing in this paragraph may be
construed to prohibit the following:

 
(1) The enactment of any ordinance generally
regulating the discharge of firearms in a
municipality or any part of a municipality;

 
(2) The adoption of rules as authorized in section
7792;

 
(3) The enactment of any ordinance regulating ice
fishing shacks on sources of public water supply as
provided under Title 22, section 2642; or

 
(4) The enactment of any ordinance regulating ice
fishing shacks on coastal waters as defined in
section 6001, subsection 6.; or

 
(5) The enactment of a noise level ordinance in
accordance with section 7807.

 
Sec. 2. 12 MRSA §7807 is enacted to read:

 
§7807.__Noise level ordinance

 
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Part, the Town
of Naples may adopt and enforce ordinances regulating the
noise level of watercraft on Brandy Pond, also known as the
Bay of Naples.

 
Sec. 3. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and
allocations are made.

 
INLAND FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE,

 
DEPARTMENT OF

 
Warden Service


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