‘An Act To Make Technical Changes to the Definition of “Coastal Area” and To Aid the Implementation of the Taunton Bay Resource Management Plan’
| SP0498 LD 1420 |
First Regular Session - 123rd Legislature - Text: MS-Word, RTF or PDF |
LR 1909 Item 2 |
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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘An Act To Make Technical Changes to the Definition of “Coastal Area” and To Aid the Implementation of the Taunton Bay Resource Management Plan’
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the summary and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §6171, sub-§5, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 123, §2, is amended to read:
Sec. 2. 38 MRSA §1802, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 794, Pt. A, §11, is amended to read:
summary
This amendment replaces the bill and, instead of amending the definition of a "territorial waters" it amends the definition of "coastal area" to clarify that that area only extends out 3 nautical miles. Current law requires that, whenever the Commissioner of Marine Resources adopts rules that limit the taking of one marine organism to protect another, those rules are major substantive rules. This amendment makes similar rules regarding the Taunton Bay Resource Management Plan routine technical instead of major substantive rules.