An Act To Create a Large Game Shooting Area in Piscataquis County
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 0316
Committee: Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
Sponsors: TUTTLE, CROCKETT, DAVIS, HANLEY, JOHNSON, SMITH
Amends: 7 MRSA §1342

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124th MAl E LEGISLATURE 
Legislative Document 
No. 316 
H.P.252 
House of Representatives, February 3, 2009 
An Act To Create a Large Game Shooting Area in Piscataquis 
County 
Reference to the Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry suggested and 
ordered printed. 
Presented by Representative TUTTLE of Sanford. 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Cosponsored by Representatives: CROCKETT of Bethel, DAVIS of Sangerville, HANLEY of 
Gardiner, JOHNSON of Greenville, Senator: SMITH of Piscataquis. 
Primed un recycled p;]per 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 7 MRS A §1342, 2nd Ejf, as enacted by PL 1999, c. 765, §3, is amended to 
read: 
The Commissioner Except as provided in subsection I-A, the commissioner may 
issue a licen~e under this chapter only to a person who operated a commercial large game 
shooting area during the period beginning October 1, 1999 and ending March 15, 2000 
and only for large game offered for harvesting within that area during that time period. 
Sec. 2. 7 MRS A §1342, sllb-§l, as enacted by PL 1999, c. 765, §3, is amended to 
read: 
1. Application. AIl applicant for a commercial large game shooting area license 
must submit an application on a form provided by the commissioner along with the 
required license fee as provided under subsection 3. An application under this subsection 
must be submitted for a specific parcel of land, and the applicant must demonstrate in 
accordance with subsection 9 that the applicant has operated a commercial large game 
shooting area on that parcel ofland between October 1, 1999 and March 15, 2000. The 
application must include the name and address of the person applying for the license and 
a map locating the proposed site in relation to known or easily identifiable terrain 
features, such as a road junction or a stream and road junction. The map must be a copy 
of a 7.5 or 15 minute series topographical map produced by the United States Geological 
Surveyor a map of equivalent or superior detail in the location of roads. 
Sec. 3. 7 MRS A §1342, SUlb-§l-A is enacted to read: 
I-A. Application; no previous operation of commercial large game shooting 
area. An applicant for a commercial large game shooting area license who does not 
qualify under subsection 1 must submit an application on a form provided by the 
commissioner along with the required license fee as provided under subsection 3. An 
application under this subsection must be submitted for a specific parcel of land. The 
application must include the name and address of the person applying for the license and 
a map locating the proposed site in relation to known or easily identifiable terrain 
features, such as a road junction or a stream and road junction. The map must be a copy 
of a 7.5 or 15 minute series topographical map produced by the United States Geological 
Surveyor a map of equivalent or superior detail in the location of roads. 
Sec. 4. 7 MRSA §1342, sllb-§9, as enacted by PL 1999, c. 765, §3, is amended to 
read: 
9. 
Verification of existing commercial large game shooting areas. Frief For 
licenses issued under subsection 1, prior to issuing a license, the commissioner must 
verify that the applicant operated a commercial large game shooting area during the 
period beginning October 1, 1999 and ending March 15, 2000. 
An applicant may 
demonstrate compliance with this requirement: 
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A. 
By submitting a copy of a published advertisement describing the large game 
shooting experience offered. The copy must include the name of the publication and 
the date of the issue in which the advertisement appeared; 
B. 
By submitting a dated receipt for services that includes the name and address of 
the person who paid for a large game shooting experience and supporting financial 
records; or 
C. 
By submitting other acceptable verification as detenmned by the commissioner, 
including such information required by the corrumssioner to establish the type of 
large game harvested or offered for harvesting in that shooting area between October 
1, 1999 and March 15,2000. 
Sec. 5. Approval of license application. The Commissioner of Agriculture, 
Food and Rural ResoW'ces shall approve one duly filed application submitted pursuant to 
the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 7, section 1342, subsection I-A for a license for a 
conunerciallarge game shooting area on a parcel of land located in Piscataquis County. 
SUMMARY 
Under current law, in order to be granted a license to operate a corrunercial large 
game shooting area on a parcel of land, the applicant must have operated a commercial 
large game shooting area on that parcel of land between October 1, 1999 and March 15, 
2000. This bill amends the law to allow the Commissioner of Agriculture, Food and 
Rural Resources to approve one application for a license from an applicant who did not 
operate a commercial large game shooting area on the parcel of land between October 1, 
1999 and March 15, 2000 and directs the commissioner to approye an application for a 
commercial large game shooting area to be located in Piscataquis County.