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violations under this Part within the previous 5-year | | period commits a Class E crime. |
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| | | Sec. 320. 12 MRSA §12860, sub-§1-A is enacted to read: |
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| | | 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. |
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| | | 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: |
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| | | 2. Affiliated outfitter. "Affiliated outfitter" means: |
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| | | 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; |
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| | | 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; |
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| | | 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 |
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| | | D. An outfitter who, in the year 1982 or thereafter: |
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| | | (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 |
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| | | (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. |
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| | 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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