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violations under this Part within the previous 5-year
period commits a Class E crime.

 
Sec. 320. 12 MRSA §12860, sub-§1-A is enacted to read:

 
1-A.__Prohibition.__A person may not conduct trip camping
under subsection 1 without a trip leader permit issued under this
section. Each day a person violates this subsection, that person
commits a Class E crime for which a minimum fine of $50 and an
amount equal to twice the applicable license fee must be imposed.

 
Sec. 321. 12 MRSA §12901, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 414, Pt.
A, §2 and affected by Pt. D, §7, is amended to read:

 
2. Affiliated outfitter. "Affiliated outfitter" means:

 
A. An outfitter who owns directly, indirectly or through a
chain of successive ownership 10% or more of the financial
interest in any other outfitter;

 
B. An outfitter, 10% or more of whose financial interests
are owned directly or indirectly or through a chain of
successive ownership by any other outfitter;

 
C. An outfitter, 10% or more of whose financial interests
are owned directly or indirectly or through a chain of
successive ownership by a person who owns 10% or more of the
financial interest in another outfitter; or

 
D. An outfitter who, in the year 1982 or thereafter:

 
(1) Purchases, leases, borrows, accepts, receives or
otherwise obtains on a nonarms-length basis from
another whitewater outfitter, either directly or
indirectly, more than 1/2 of its real or personal
property; or

 
(2) Receives from another outfitter on a nonarms-length
basis more than 1/2 of the ordinary services related to
the business of whitewater outfitting, including, but
not limited to, mail, telephone, reservations, repair,
maintenance, personnel training and management.

 
A person may not be found to be is not an affiliated outfitter
solely because of blood relationship, marriage or previous
employment. If the department transfers a selling outfitter's
allocation to a buying outfitter or outfitters, pursuant to
section 12907, subsection 7, these transferred allocations must


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