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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 | | be added to the buyer's allocations and may not be considered as | | affiliated. |
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| | | Sec. B-321. 12 MRSA §12901, sub-§5, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 414, Pt. | | A, §2 and affected by Pt. D, §7, is amended to read: |
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| | | 5. Commercial whitewater outfitter; outfitter. "Commercial | whitewater outfitter" or "outfitter" means a person who conducts | commercial whitewater trips or who collects dues or fees or | | receives any form of compensation for arranging or providing | whitewater rafting services trips or for operating a whitewater | | rafting organization. A commercial whitewater outfitter license | | does not authorize the holder to guide whitewater rafting trips | | unless that person also holds a valid whitewater guide's license. |
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| | | Sec. B-322. 12 MRSA §12901, sub-§11, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 414, | | Pt. A, §2 and affected by Pt. D, §7, is amended to read: |
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| | | 11. Whitewater guide. "Whitewater guide" means a person who | | receives any remuneration from a commercial whitewater |
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