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approval of the Governor and must be provided with
subsistence while engaged in these activities.

 
B.__The commissioner may enter into written agreements with
other agencies or corporations, including commercial
recreational areas, allowing partial search and rescue
responsibility within specified areas.

 
C.__The commissioner may terminate a search and rescue
operation by members of the department when, in the
commissioner's opinion, all reasonable efforts have been
exhausted.

 
D.__The commissioner may recover all costs directly related
to a specific search and rescue operation:

 
(1) From the person for whom the search and rescue
operation was conducted; or

 
(2) If a person knowingly provided false information
that leads to a search and rescue operation, from the
person who provided that false information.

 
Any person who has knowledge that another person is lost,
stranded or drowned in the woodlands or inland waters of the
State shall notify the Bureau of Warden Service of the
department.

 
5.__Boundary waters with New Hampshire and Canada. The
commissioner may prescribe bag limits, size limits, open or
closed seasons and methods of taking fish from the inland
boundary waters between the states of Maine and New Hampshire and
provinces of Canada. These rules must be mutually agreed upon by
the commissioners of Maine and New Hampshire and the fishery
authorities of Canada and approved by the Inland Fisheries and
Wildlife Advisory Council.

 
6.__Establishing line of demarcation. The commissioner,
through an agent designated by the commissioner, may establish a
line of demarcation between a lake or pond and its outlet or
tributaries in areas where the commissioner determines it
necessary.

 
7.__Sale of arms and ammunition. The commissioner may sell all
property held or confiscated by the State for violation of laws
relating to the protection of inland fisheries and wildlife.__A
confiscated or forfeited handgun that was confiscated or
forfeited because it was used to commit a homicide must be
destroyed by the State, unless the handgun was stolen and the
rightful owner was not the person who committed the homicide, in
which case the handgun must be returned to the owner if


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