An Act To Prohibit Personal Watercraft on Rocky Pond in the Town of Orland
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 0364
Committee: Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
Sponsors: LINDELL, ROSEN, CROSTHWAITE
Amends: 12 MRSA §13068-A

Legislative Document 
No. 364 
H.P.277 
House of Representatives, January 25,2005 
An Act To Prohibit Personal Watercraft on Rocky Pond in the 
Town of Orland 
Reference to the Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife suggested and ordered 
printed. 
Presented by Representative LINDELL of Frankfort. 
Cosponsored by Senator ROSEN of Hancock and 
'7Y/~ 1/1. 7JldC~ 
MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Representatives: CROSTHWAITE of Ellsworth, ROSEN of Bucksport. 
Printed on recycled paper 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §13068-A. sub-§16. 1rA. 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 wi thin the boundar ies, or having a 
shore line abutting, the incorporated municipality of 
Millinocket and the unincorporated Townships being T.1, 
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; 
(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 
speed in excess of 10 miles per 
confines of the buoyed channels: 
Merrymeeting Bay at 
a 
hour, except within the 
(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 
section 685-C, 
Maine Land Use 
subsection; 
a 
personal watercraft in violation of 
subsection 10 or any rule adopted by the 
Regulation Commission to implement that 
(15) 
Operate 
a 
watercraft at greater 
speed on any area of Torsey Lake within 
the boat launch on Desert Pond Road in 
Mount Vernon; 
than 
headway 
1/2 mile from 
the Town of 
(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 
greater than 10 
Town of Naples 
and the Town of 
a 
watercraft 
equipped 
with 
a 
horsepower on Cold Rain Pond 
or on Holt Pond in the Town of 
Bridgton; 
motor 
in the 
Naples 
(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 
horsepower 
on 
a 
motorboat 
Middle 
Branch 
Waterboro in York County: 
having 
more 
Pond 
in 
the 
than 
Town 
of 
(2l) 
Operate 
a 
motorboat 
having 
more 
than 
horsepower on Adams Pond, Foster Pond or Otter Pond in 
the Town of Bridgton in Cumberland County: 9F 
(22) 
Operate 
a 
motorboat 
having 
more 
than 
horsepower on Pickerel Pond in the territory of T.32 MD 
in Hancock CountYTL-Q£ 
(23) 
Operate a personal watercraft on Rocky Pond in 
the Town of Orland. 
SllMMARY 
This bill prohibits the use of personal watercraft on Rocky 
Pond in the Town of Orland.