An Act To Expand Coyote Hunting to Every Day of the Coyote Hunting Season and To Eliminate Fees

Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §11160, sub-§3,  as amended by PL 2005, c. 12, Pt. III, §18, is further amended to read:

Sec. 2. 12 MRSA §11205, sub-§1, ¶A,  as enacted by PL 2003, c. 414, Pt. A, §2 and affected by c. 614, §9, is amended to read:

Sec. 3. Coyote license fees for 2019. Notwithstanding any other law, a license fee may not be charged in connection with coyote hunting for the 2019 regular season.

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This bill abolishes the coyote night hunting permit fee, allows hunters to hunt coyotes on Sundays during the regular hunting season, which under current Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife rules is from January 1st to December 31st, and eliminates any license fee that may be charged in connection with coyote hunting for the 2019 regular season.