An Act Imposing a Horsepower Restriction for Boat Motors on Muddy Pond
Maine Legislature, Session 123, LD 0015
Committee: Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
Sponsors: McKANE, DOW
Amends: 12 MRSA §13068-A

Legislative Document 
No. IS 
H.P.16 
House of Representatives, December 15,2006 
An Act Imposing a Horsepower Restriction for Boat Motors on 
Muddy Pond 
Received by the Clerk of the House on December 13,2006. 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 McKANE of Newcastle. 
Cosponsored by Senator DOW of Lincoln. 
Prinled 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 §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 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, TE. 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 internal combustion engine on 
Nokomis Pond, situated in the Towns of Newport and Palmyra, Penobscot 
County; 
(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 10 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 112 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 112 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 Otis field; 
(19) Operate a watercraft at greater than headway speed on any area of Pickerel 
Pond in the Town of Wayne; 
(20) Operate a motorboat having more than 10 horsepower on Middle Branch 
Pond in the Town of Waterboro in York County; 
(21) Operate a motorboat having more than 10 horsepower on Adams Pond, 
Foster Pond or Otter Pond in the Town of Bridgton in Cumberland County; 6f 
(22) Operate a motorboat having more than 10 horsepower on Pickerel Pond in 
the territory ofT.32 MD in Hancock County~~ 
(23) Operate a motorboat having more than 25 horsepower on Muddy Pond in 
the Town of Damariscotta in Lincoln County. 
SUMMARY 
This bill prohibits the operation of a motorboat equipped with a motor greater than 25 
horsepower on Muddy Pond in the Town of Damariscotta in Lincoln County.