An Act To Make Technical Changes in Laws Relating to Conservation
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 0813
Committee: Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
Sponsors: PINEAU, FLOOD, NUTIING
Amends: 12 MRSA §8611, 12 MRSA §8701, 12 MRSA §8883-A, 12 MRSA §8883-B, 12 MRSA §8884

Legislative Document 
No. 813 
H.P.578 
House of Representatives, February 15,2005 
An Act To Make Technical Changes in Laws Relating to 
Conservation 
Submitted by the Department of Conservation pursuant to Joint Rule 204. 
Reference to the Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry suggested and 
ordered printed. 
Presented by Representative PINEAU of Jay. 
17/~ 
/J7.7JJdC~ 
MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Cosponsored by Representative: FLOOD of Winthrop, Senator: NUTIING of Androscoggin. 
Printed on recycled paper 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §8611, sub-§2, as amended by PL 1989, c. 700, 
Pt. A, §40, is further amended to read: 
2. 
Batural resource educator. 
The director shall employ a 
natural 
resource 
educator 
to 
develop 
and 
coordinate natural 
resource 
education, 
workshops 
and 
training opportunities 
for 
school-age 
children, 
forest 
landowners, 
forest 
products 
harvesters and forest managers. 
S~eei€iea**YT-~his-~e~ses-sha**+ 
AT--We~~-~it~-&h&-Qe~a~~mes~-~-~~~~»G-e~~asiBa~iess 
~e-~~~~~-~~&~~y-asQ-~~~--se1e»ee-~~~~~-~~-~he 
seiesee-eQ~~ieQ*a-is-~Qs*ie-sehee*sT-aSQ 
BT--~~~~~4~~-~-~~raffi-€e~-£~~4~~4~~-~~~~~~&&&-is 
~imse~--ha~ves~is~--e~Qi~mes~--e~e~a~iesT--sa€e~y--asQ--sasie 
€e~es~-masa~emes~-ski**ST 
Sec. 2. 12 MRSA §8701, as amended by PL 1989, c. 21, §§1 to 
3, is repealed. 
Sec. 3. 12 MRSA §8883-A, as enac ted by PL 1995, c. 242 , § 1, 
is repealed. 
Sec.4. 12 MRSA §8883-B, sub-§8 is enacted to read: 
8. 
Forge~. 
Every 
required 
element 
of 
a 
notification 
specified in this section is deemed to be a written instrument 
subject to the laws relating to forgery. 
Sec. S. 12 MRSA §8884, sub-§2, as amended by PL 1995, c. 242, 
§2, is further amended to read: 
2. 
Imports and exports. 
Persons, firms, corporations or 
companies selling forest products out of the State or buying 
forest products to bring into the State shall submit an annual 
report to the director of the bureau during the month of January 
for the forest products sold out of the State or brought into the 
State. 
The report must also identify the origin of imported 
forest products by state or country~e county in the State in 
which exported forest products were harvested and the destination 
of exported forest products by state or country. 
Sec. 6. 12 MRS A §8886, sub-§2, 1rB, as amended by PL 1997, c. 
720, §18, is repealed. 
I 
• .. 
SUMMARY 
This bill makes 
several 
technical 
relating 
to 
conservation. 
Specifically, 
following. 
changes 
to 
the 
bill 
the 
does 
laws 
the 
1. 
It repeals obsolete language regarding the Department of 
Conservation, Bureau of Forestry's natural resource educator. 
2. 
It repeals obsolete language regarding the Bureau of 
Forestry's tree nursery. 
3. 
It makes 
falsification of 
information 
on 
a 
timber 
harvesting notification equivalent to forgery. 
4. 
It repeals obsolete and redundant provisions and makes 
minor 
modifications 
to 
language 
regarding 
the 
Bureau 
of 
Forestry's collection of information on log imports and exports. 
5. 
It repeals obsolete language regarding the Bureau of 
Forestry's collection of information on mill-delivered prices .