An Act To Ban the Hunting of Animals in an Enclosed Area
Maine Legislature, Session 121, LD 0300
Committee: Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
Sponsors: BULL, DUNLAP
Amends: 7 MRSA §1331, 7 MRSA §1332, 7 MRSA §1751, 7 MRSA §4011, 7 MRSA §4015, 17 MRSA §1037

Legislative Document 
No. 300 
H.P.243 
House of Representatives, January 28, 2003 
An Act To Ban the Hunting of Animals in an Enclosed Area 
Reference to the Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry suggested and 
ordered printed. 
Presented by Representative BULL of Freeport. 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Cosponsored by Representatives: DUNLAP of Old Town, McKEE of Wayne. 
Printed on recycled paper 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 7 MRSA §1331, sub-§2, as amended by PL 1999, c. 765, 
§l, is further amended to read: 
2. 
License. 
The 
Commissioner of Agriculture, 
Food 
and 
Rural 
Resources 
may 
issue 
a 
license 
for 
the 
propagation, 
possession, purchase or sale of domesticated deer and for the 
sale of meat 
from domesticated deer. 
Any holder of 
such 
a 
license may raise domesticated deer at any season of the year for 
purposes 
of 
propagation. 
Appropriate 
certification 
must 
accompany any meat from domestic deer offered for sale. 
The fee 
for the license is $20 a year. 
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must 
be 
deposited 
in the 
Animal 
Industry Fund established in section 1332. 
Sec. 2. 7 MRSA §1332, as enacted by PL 1999, c. 765, §2, is 
amended to read: 
§1332. Animal Industry Fund 
The Treasurer of State shall establish a separate account 
known as the Animal Industry Fund. 
This fund does not lapse but 
must be carried forward. 
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to 
pay 
for 
administrative 
costs 
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Sec. 3. 7 MRSA c. 202-A, as enacted by PL 1999, c. 765, §3, lS 
repealed. 
Sec. 4. 7 MRSA §1751, sub-§2, as amended by PL 2001, c. 572, 
§23, is further amended to read: 
2. 
Domestic 
animals. 
"Domestic 
animals" 
means 
cattle, 
equines, goats, sheep, swine, cats, dogs, domesticated cervidae 
or other domesticated 
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Sec. 5. 7 MRSA §4011, sub-§I, 1[G, as amended by PL 2001, c. 
617, §9, is further amended to read: 
G. 
Hunts, traps or sells for the purpose of hunting any 
animal, except as permitted pursuant to 
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Sec. 6. 7 MRSA §4015, sub-§5. as amended by PL 1999, c. 765, 
§10, is further amended to read: 
5. 
Livestock. 
Livestock 
must 
be provided with shelter 
suitable for 
the health of the animal. 
Livestock must have 
access to a constructed or natural shelter that is large enough 
to 
accommodate 
all 
livestock 
comfortably at 
one 
time. 
The 
shelter should be well drained and protect the livestock from 
direct 
sun, 
rain, 
wind 
and 
other 
inclement 
weather. 
Notwithstanding this subsection, 
shelter for 
equines 
must 
be 
provided 
in 
accordance 
with 
subsection 
2, 
paragraph 
B, 
subparagraph (1). 
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Sec. 7. 17 MRS A §1031, sub-§I. ~G, as amended by PL 200L c. 
617, §ll, is further amended to read: 
G. 
Hunts, traps or sells for the purpose of hunting any 
animal, 
except as permitted pursuant to 
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6G6-A-aBQ Title 12, Part 10; 
Sec. 8. 17 MRSA §1037, sub-§5. as amended by PL 1999, c. 765, 
§12, is further amended to read: 
5. 
Livestock. 
Livestock 
must 
be 
provided with shelter 
suitable for 
the health of 
the animal. 
Livestock must 
have 
access to a constructed or natural shelter that is large enough 
to 
accommodate 
all 
livestock 
comfortably 
at 
one 
time. 
The 
shelter should be well drained and protect the livestock from 
direct 
sun, 
rain, 
wind 
and 
other 
inclement 
weather. 
Notwithstanding this subsection, 
shelter for 
equines 
must 
be 
provided 
in 
accordance 
with 
subsection 
2, 
paragraph 
B, 
subparagraph (1). 
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SUMMARY 
This bill repeals the law that permits the establishment, 
operation and use of commercial large game shooting areas. 
This 
bill also removes the exemption in the animal cruelty laws of 
persons operating or hunting such areas, thus making it a Class D 
crime to operate or hunt in a large game shooting area.