LD 1600
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7.__Copies of laws for town clerks or agents.__The
commissioner shall keep on hand at all times sufficient copies of
abstracts of the inland fisheries and wildlife laws to furnish to
all town clerks or agents authorized to issue licenses, so that
they have copies available to issue with every license.

 
8.__Biennial revision of fish and wildlife laws.__As soon as
practicable after the adjournment of the Legislature, the Revisor
of Statutes, with the assistance of the commissioner, shall issue
a revision of all the public laws relating to inland fisheries
and wildlife. The revision must be printed in a pamphlet of the
same size pages as the Maine Revised Statutes Annotated, and its
printing and distribution must be the same as that of the
biennial laws, except that the commissioner may issue as many
extra copies of this Part in a pamphlet of whatever size seems
best to inform the people about the fish and wildlife laws.

 
9.__Availability of financial statement.__The commissioner
shall make the annual financial statement for the department
available for public inspection within 180 days after the close
of the fiscal year that is the subject of the report.

 
10.__Water level danger zones.__The commissioner may
establish, in accordance with section 10104, subsection 1, water
level danger zones.__These zones are areas of rivers and streams
below water impoundment that are subject to rapidly changing
water levels.__The commissioner may adopt rules to protect
individuals using those areas for hunting, fishing, trapping and
boating purposes.__The commissioner may not regulate the flow of
water under this section.

 
11.__Report to Legislature.__The commissioner shall submit an
annual report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature
having jurisdiction over appropriations and financial affairs and
the joint standing committee of the Legislature having
jurisdiction over inland fisheries and wildlife matters.__This
report must identify all specific extended responsibility
services provided by the department to individuals who do not pay
a particular fee to the department for the provision of that
service, including all search and rescue activities conducted by
the department.__This report must include an estimate of the
total cost of providing the identified extended responsibility
services.__The report must be submitted on or before January 1st
of each year.__Upon receipt of the report, the joint standing
committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over
appropriations and financial affairs and the joint standing
committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over inland
fisheries and wildlife matters shall give separate consideration
to funding the department's estimated cost of providing the
identified extended responsibility services.


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