Sec. 1. 23 MRSA §3154 is enacted to read:

§3154. Municipal walking trails

1. Municipal walking trails authorized. A municipality may lay out, alter and discontinue walking trails according to the following provisions.

A.__A 2/3 vote of the municipal officers is required for the acceptance of that municipal walking trail by that municipality.

B.__The municipality may not take any cultivated or improved land to lay out or alter municipal walking trails without the consent of the landowner.

C.__All provisions regarding the assessment of damages and appeal in cases of laying out, altering and discontinuing public ways in a municipality apply to laying out, altering and discontinuing municipal walking trails.

D.__Municipal walking trails are subject to such regulations as to use as may be established by the municipality.

E.__The municipality shall erect at the entrance of a municipal walking trail signs signifying that it is not for use of vehicles, and that persons use it at their own risk.

2. Limited liability of landowner. Pursuant to Title 14, section 159-A, if a landowner permits a municipality to use the landowner's private property for a municipal walking trail, the landowner does not assume responsibility for care of the municipal walking trail or incur liability for any injury to person or property caused by any act of persons who use the municipal walking trail except for a willful or malicious failure of the landowner to guard or to warn against a dangerous condition, use, structure or activity.