LD 253
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LR 494
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7. Illegal possession of gift moose. A person is guilty,
notwithstanding subsection 3, of illegal possession of a gift
moose if that person possesses a part or parts of a moose unless
each separate part given to that person is plainly labeled with
the following:

 
A. The registration seal number; and

 
B. The name and address of the person who registered the
moose and the year it was registered.

 
Sec. 11. 12 MRSA §7625, as enacted by PL 1979, c. 420, §1, is
amended to read:

 
§7625. Failure to label fish

 
A person is guilty of failure to label fish if he that
person keeps any black bass, salmon, togue or trout at any
sporting camp, hotel or public lodging place and fails to
attach label the fish with the name and address of the person
who caught them to the fish and the date when the fish was
caught.

 
SUMMARY

 
This bill requires moose hunters to wear 2 articles of
hunter orange clothing and exempts hunters from the hunter
orange clothing requirement when hunting from a tree stand.
The bill also allows a person to keep a gift bear, deer, moose
or fish if it is labeled with just the name of the person who
harvested the animal and the date when the animal was
harvested. Additionally, the bill removes the prohibition on
baiting deer and allows a person to keep more than one legally
harvested game animal in that person's home. Finally, the
bill allows a person to assist in a hunt without a license or
permit if that person does not carry a weapon during that
hunt.


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