An Act To Promote Nonconsumptive Use of Maine's Fish and Wildlife Resources
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 1344
Committee: Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
Sponsors: EDER
Amends: 12 MRSA §10151

Legislative Document 
No. 1344 
H.P.927 
House of Representatives, March 17,2005 
An Act To Promote Nonconsumptive Use of Maine's Fish and 
Wildlife Resources 
Reference to the Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife suggested and ordered 
printed. 
Presented by Representative EDER of Portland. 
Printed on recycled paper 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §10151, sub-§I, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 414, 
Pt. 
A, 
§2 
and affected by c. 
614, 
§9, is repealed and the 
following enacted in its place: 
1. 
Appointment. 
The Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Advisory 
Council. established by Title 5. section 12004-G. subsection 20 
and referred to in this Part as "the advisory council." consists 
of 10 members. 
Five members represent the 16 counties of the 
State in the following manner: 
one member represents Franklin 
County. Kennebec County. Oxford County and Somerset County; one 
member 
represents 
Aroostook 
County; 
one 
member 
represents 
Androscoggin County. Cumberland County. Sagadahoc County and York 
~ty; one 
member 
represents 
Hancock 
County. 
Knox 
County. 
Lincoln 
County 
and 
Waldo 
County; 
and 
one 
member 
represents 
Penobscot County. Piscataguis County and Washington County. 
Of 
the remaining 5 members. one member represents bird watchers. one 
member represents herpetologists. one member represents wildlife 
watchers. 
one 
memb~r 
repr~nts naturalists 
and 
one 
member 
represents 
botanists. 
Members 
of 
the 
advisory 
council 
are 
appointed 
by 
the 
Governor. 
subject 
to 
review 
by 
the 
joint 
standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over 
inland fisheries and wildlife matters and to confirmation by the 
Legislature. The commissioner is a nonvoting. ex officio member 
of the advisory council. but may vote to break a tie. 
An employee of the department may not serve as a member of the 
advisory council prior to the expiration of one year from that 
employee's 
last 
day 
of 
employment 
with 
the 
department. 
A 
Legislator may not serve as a member of the advisory council. 
A 
former 
Legislator 
who 
was 
a 
member 
of 
the 
joint 
standing 
~ttee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over inland 
fisheries and wildlife matters may not serve as a member of the 
advisory council prior to the expiration of one year from that 
former Legislator's last day of membership on that committee. 
Sec. 2. Transition; members in office. 
Members of the Inland 
Fisheries 
and 
Wildlife 
Advisory 
Council 
in 
office 
on 
the 
effective date of this Act continue in office for the remainder 
of their terms. 
When the term of office of a member expires, 
that member's successor is elected pursuant to the Maine Revised 
Statutes, Title 12, section 10151, subsection I. 
SUMMARY 
This 
bill 
restructures 
the 
membership 
of 
the 
Inland 
Fisheries and wildlife Advisory Council. 
The bill reduces the 
members that represent the 16 counties from 10 to 5 and requires 
that 
the 
remaining 
members 
represent 
bird 
watchers, 
herpetologists, wildlife watchers, naturalists and botanists.