An Act To Prohibit the Use of Motorized Watercraft on Lily Pond in Deer Isle
Maine Legislature, Session 123, LD 0799
Committee: Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
Sponsors: DAMON, PINGREE
Amends: 12 MRSA §13068-A

Legislative Document 
No. 799 
S.P.248 
February 15,2007 
An Act To Prohibit the Use of Motorized Watercraft on Lily Pond in 
Deer Isle 
Reference to the Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife suggested and ordered 
printed. 
Presented by Senator DAMON of Hancock. 
Cosponsored by Representative PINGREE of North Haven. 
Pnnted on recycled paper 
JOY J. O'BRIEN 
Secretary of the Senate 
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; 
(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; 
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(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 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 
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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 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; ef 
(22) Operate a motorboat having more than 10 horsepower on Pickerel Pond in 
the territory ofT.32 MD in Hancock County~~ 
(23) Operate a motorized personal watercraft or motorboat on Lilv Pond in Deer 
Isle. 
SUMMARY 
This bill prohibits the use of a motorboat on Lily Pond in Deer Isle.