CHAPTER 73

H.P. 192 - L.D. 237

An Act To Improve the Coyote Control Program

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §7035, sub-§3, ¶B, as amended by PL 1999, c. 636, §1, is repealed.

Sec. 2. 12 MRSA §7035, sub-§3, ¶B-1 is enacted to read:

B-1.__An agent may use snares to control coyotes during winter months under the following conditions.

(1)__Agents may use snares only for animal damage control purposes to help meet management goals established by the commissioner for deer, threatened or endangered species or other wildlife species or to benefit agricultural interests as described in paragraph C.

(2)__Agents must be trained and certified by the department in the use of snares.

(3)__Agents must be deployed by a department wildlife biologist before setting snares.