§11221. Disposal of offal; littering

A person may not drop, deposit, discard, dump or otherwise dispose of a carcass, waste parts or remains of a wild animal, except waste parts or remains resulting from the normal field dressing of lawfully harvested wild game or the lawful use of waste parts or remains of wild game as bait.

A person who violates this section commits a civil violation for which a forfeiture of not less than $100 nor more than $500 may be adjudged.__Additionally, a person who violates this section violates the Maine Litter Control Act, Title 17, chapter 80 and is subject to the penalties set forth in that Act.

§11222. Target identification while hunting

1.__Findings.__Due to the large numbers of Maine citizens and visitors engaged in hunting in the State's woods during hunting season, the continued decline of unpopulated areas through the State, the widespread use of powerful weapons in the pursuit of wild animals and wild birds and the growing presence of nonhunters engaged in nonhunting activities in the State's woods during hunting season, the Legislature finds that a sufficient risk of serious bodily injury or death to human beings is posed to make it necessary and prudent to provide guidance to those in pursuit of wild animals and wild birds on the matter of proper target identification.

2.__Target identification.__While hunting, a hunter may not shoot at a target without, at that point in time, being certain that it is the wild animal or wild bird sought.

A.__The target-determining process to be utilized is that which a reasonable and prudent hunter would observe in the same situation.__A reasonable and prudent hunter always bears the risk of loss of legitimate prey to avoid the risk of the destruction of human life.__A reasonable and prudent hunter neither disregards the risk of causing the death of another human being nor fails to be aware of that risk as a consequence of misidentification.__A reasonable and prudent hunter never bases identification upon sound alone or even upon sound in combination with what appears to be an appendage of the wild animal or wild bird sought.__A reasonable and prudent hunter, independent of these target- determining factors, bases identification upon obtaining an essentially unobstructed view of the head and torso of the potential target.__This visual sighting is the