| | | approval of the Governor and must be provided with | | subsistence while engaged in these activities. |
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| | | 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. |
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| | | 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. |
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| | | D.__The commissioner may recover all costs directly related | | to a specific search and rescue operation: |
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| | | (1) From the person for whom the search and rescue | | operation was conducted; or |
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| | | (2) If a person knowingly provided false information | | that leads to a search and rescue operation, from the | | person who provided that false information. |
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| | | 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. |
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| | | 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. |
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| | | 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. |
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| | | 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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