An Act To Protect the Water Quality of Colcord Pond and Bickford Pond in Porter
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 1877
Committee: Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
Sponsors: MUSE, EBERLE, KOFFMAN, SNOWE-MELLO
Amends: 12 MRSA §13068-A

Legislative Document 
No. 1877 
H.P.1317 
House of Representatives, January 3, 2006 
An Act To Protect the Water Quality of Colcord Pond and Bickford 
Pond in Porter 
Approved for introduction by a majority of the Legislative Council pursuant to Joint Rule 
203. 
Received by the Clerk of the House on December 28, 2005. Referred to the Committee on 
Inland Fisheries and Wildlife pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to Joint 
Rule 401. 
Presented by Representative MUSE of Fryeburg. 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Cosponsored by Representatives: EBERLE of South Portland, KOFFMAN of Bar Harbor, 
Senator: SNOWE-MELLO of Androscoggin. 
Printed on lecycled paper 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §13068-A, sub-§16, ,A, as enacted by PL 2003, 
c. 655, Pt. B, §380 and affected by §422, is amended to read: 
A. 
A person may not: 
(1) 
Operate a motorboat on that portion of Portage 
Lake in Township T. 
13, 
R. 
6, 
W.E.L.S., 
County of 
Aroostook, known as the Floating Island Area, north and 
westerly of a line beginning at the eastern edge of the 
marshy peninsula running out 
from Hutchinson Ridge, 
running 50 yards outside of the floating islands in a 
northerly direction to the mouth of Mosquito Brook; 
(2) 
Operate a motorboat on Quimby Pond in the Town of 
Rangeley, Franklin County; 
(3) 
Operate a motorboat upon the waters of Jerry Pond, 
so called, situated within the boundaries, or having a 
shore line abutting, the incorporated municipality of 
Millinocket and the unincorporated Townships being T.I, 
R. 7 and T.A., R. 7, all in Penobscot County; 
(4) 
Operate a motorboat on Upper and Lower Ox Brook 
Lakes in the Towns of T. 6 ND, T. 6 RI and Talmadge in 
Washington County; 
(5) 
Operate 
a 
motorboat 
on 
Little 
Nesowadnehunk 
(Sournahunk) Lake, in T. 5, R. 11, Piscataquis County; 
(6) 
Operate a motorboat having more than 10 horsepower 
on 
Eagle 
Lake 
and Jordan Pond, 
Mt. 
Desert Island, 
Hancock County and Long Pond, T.E. and T. D., Franklin 
County; 
(7) 
Operate a motorboat on a body of water commonly 
known as and referred to in the Dunham-Davee Work Plan 
as Snow's Pond, situated west of Route 7 in the Town of 
Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis County; 
(8) 
Operate a motorboat having more than 6 horsepower 
on Long Pond, Town of Denmark, Oxford County; 
(9) 
Operate 
a 
motorboat 
on 
Lily 
Pond, 
Edgecomb, 
Lincoln County; 
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(10) 
Operate 
a 
motorboat 
powered 
by 
an 
combustion engine 
on Nokomis 
Pond, 
situated 
Towns of Newport and Palmyra, Penobscot County; 
internal 
in the 
(11) 
Operate a 
motorboat in Merrymeeting Bay at a 
speed in excess of 10 miles per hour, except within the 
confines of the buoyed channels; 
(12) 
Operate 
a motorboat equipped with an internal 
combustion engine 
on the following waters 
on Mount 
Desert Island in Hancock County: Witch Hole Pond; Aunt 
Betty's Pond; Bubble Pond; Round Pond; and Lake Wood; 
(13) 
Operate a motorboat equipped with a motor greater 
than 
horsepower 
on Upper 
Hadlock 
Pond 
or 
Lower 
Hadlock Pond on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County; 
(14) 
Operate 
a personal watercraft in violation of 
section 685-C, subsection 10 or any rule adopted by the 
Maine Land Use Regulation Commission to implement that 
subsection; 
(15) 
Operate 
a 
watercraft at greater than headway 
speed on any area of Torsey Lake within 1/2 mile from 
the boat launch on Desert Pond Road in the Town of 
Mount Vernon; 
(16) 
Operate 
a 
watercraft at greater than headway 
speed on any area of Torsey Lake within 1/2 mile from 
the boat launch on Old Kents Hill Road in the Town of 
Readfield; 
(17) 
Operate 
a 
watercraft 
equipped 
with 
a 
motor 
greater than 10 horsepower on Cold Rain Pond in the 
Town of Naples or on Holt Pond in the Town of Naples 
and the Town of Bridgton; 
(18) 
Operate 
a 
watercraft 
equipped 
with 
a 
motor 
greater than 5 horsepower on Moose Pond in the Town of 
Otisfield; 
(19) 
Operate 
a 
watercraft at greater than headway 
speed on any area of Pickerel Pond in the Town of Wayne; 
(20) 
Operate 
a 
motorboat 
horsepower 
on 
Middle 
Branch 
Waterboro in York County; 
having 
Pond 
more 
in 
the 
than 
Town 
of 
(21) 
Operate 
a 
motorboat 
having 
more 
than 
horsepower on Adams Pond, Foster Pond or Otter Pond in 
the Town of Bridgton in Cumberland County; 
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(22) 
Operate 
a 
motorboat 
having 
more 
than 
horsepower on Pickerel Pond in the territory of T.32 MD 
in Hancock CountyT~ 
(23) 
Operate a personal watercraft on Colcord Pond or 
Bickford Pond in the Town of Porter, Oxford County. 
SUMMARY 
This bill prohibits 
the 
use 
of 
personal 
watercraft 
on 
Colcord Pond and Bickford Pond in the Town of Porter.