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LR 487
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Sec. 19. 12 MRSA §7457, sub-§2, ¶B, as enacted by PL 1979, c. 420, §1,
is repealed.

 
Sec. 20. 12 MRSA §7458, sub-§11, ¶A, as enacted by PL 1979, c. 420,
§1, is amended to read:

 
A. The deer is not open to view; or

 
Sec. 21. 12 MRSA §7458, sub-§11, ¶B, as amended by PL 1995, c. 455,
§33, is further amended to read:

 
B. A deer tag bearing the name and address of the person
who killed the deer that conforms to the requirements of
section 7457, subsection 3 is not securely attached to the
deer; or.

 
Sec. 22. 12 MRSA §7458, sub-§11, ¶C, as amended by PL 1999, c. 322,
§8, is repealed.

 
Sec. 23. 12 MRSA §7458, sub-§14, as amended by PL 1987, c. 144, is
repealed.

 
Sec. 24. 12 MRSA §7469, sub-§6, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 95, §1, is
amended to read:

 
6. Keeping an unregistered wild turkey. A person is guilty
of keeping an unregistered wild turkey if he the person
keeps an unregistered wild turkey at his the person's home, or
any place of storage except at an official wild turkey
registration station or at the office of an inland fisheries
and wildlife warden, for more than 12 18 hours.

 
Sec. 25. 12 MRSA §7901-A, sub-§6, ¶C, as amended by PL 2001, c. 655,
§18 and c. 667, Pt. B, §10, is repealed and the following
enacted in its place:

 
C.__Chapter 709, subchapter 3 violations:

 
(1)__Hunting or trapping bear near dumps as described
in section 7452, subsection 5;

 
(2)__Leaving a bear as described in section 7452,
subsection 8;

 
(3)__Failure to attach a bear tag to a bear as
described in section 7452, subsection 11;

 
(4)__Illegally transporting bear as described in
section 7452, subsection 13;


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