Source: https://legislature.maine.gov/legis/bills/bills_127th/billtexts/HP011402.asp
Timestamp: 2020-08-08 03:50:32
Document Index: 394951565

Matched Legal Cases: ['§11102', '§9', '§111', '§422', '§11108', '§3', '§19', '§11154', '§13', '§1']

HP0114, LD 156, item 2, ‘An Act To Eliminate the Minimum Age Requirement for a Junior Hunting License and Increase the Number of Times a Person May Hold an Apprentice Hunter License’
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‘An Act To Eliminate the Minimum Age Requirement for a Junior Hunting License and Increase the Number of Times a Person May Hold an Apprentice Hunter License’
Amend the bill in section 1 in subsection 8 in the 4th line (page 1, line 7 in L.D.) by striking out the following: ", 10 8 years of age or older," and inserting the following: ' , 10 years of age or older,'
‘Sec. 2. 12 MRSA §11102, as affected by PL 2003, c. 614, §9 and repealed and replaced by c. 655, Pt. B, §111 and affected by §422, is repealed.
Amend the bill in section 3 in paragraph B in the first line (page 1, line 24 in L.D.) by striking out the following: " 8 years of age or older and" and inserting the following: ' years of age or older and'
Amend the bill in section 4 in subsection 2 in the first line (page 1, line 28 in L.D.) by striking out the following: " 8 years of age or older and" and inserting the following: ' years of age or older and'
Amend the bill in section 5 in subsection 2 in the first line (page 1, line 32 in L.D.) by striking out the following: " 8 years of age or older and" and inserting the following: ' years of age or older and'
Amend the bill in section 6 in subsection 1 in the 2nd line (page 2, line 2 in L.D.) by striking out the following: "over 10 8 years of age" and inserting the following: ' over 10 years of age'
Amend the bill in section 6 in subsection 1 in the 3rd line (page 2, line 3 in L.D.) by striking out the following: "over 10 8 years of age" and inserting the following: ' over 10 years of age'
Amend the bill by striking out all of section 7 and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 7. 12 MRSA §11108-B, sub-§3, as amended by PL 2013, c. 538, §19, is further amended to read:
3. Supervision of junior hunters. A hunter who is at least 10 years of age and under 16 years of age may not hunt unless that person holds a junior hunting license and is in the presence of and under the effective control of an adult supervisor.
B. After having been adjudicated as having committed 3 or more civil violations under this Part within the previous 5-year period, commits a Class E crime.’
Amend the bill in section 8 in paragraph A in the first line (page 2, line 21 in L.D.) by striking out the following: " 8 years of age or older and" and inserting the following: ' years of age or older and'
Amend the bill in section 9 in paragraph F in the first line (page 2, line 29 in L.D.) by striking out the following: " 8 years of age or older and" and inserting the following: ' years of age or older and'
Amend the bill by inserting after section 9 the following:
‘Sec. 10. 12 MRSA §11154, sub-§13, as enacted by PL 2005, c. 143, §1, is amended to read:
Sec. 11. Effective date. This Act takes effect January 1, 2016.’
The bill lowers the eligibility age for a junior hunting license from 10 to 8 years of age; this amendment instead removes the minimum age requirement for a junior hunting license. This amendment also provides that the adult supervisor of the junior hunter must hold or have held a Maine hunting license or have successfully completed a hunter safety course. It also increases the number of times a person may hold an apprentice hunter license from twice to 5 times before becoming ineligible to purchase the license. This amendment provides an effective date of January 1, 2016.