An Act To Expand Super Pack License Opportunities
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 0288
Committee: Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
Sponsors: JACKSON, AYOTTE, CRAY, DAVIS, GIFFORD, JOY, SA VIELLO, THIBODEAU
Amends: 12 MRSA §11154

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AUGUST AI MAJ!rlE 
124th MAl E LEGISLATURE 
FIRST P..EGULAR SESSION-2009 
Legislative Document 
No. 288 
H.P.228 
House of Representatives, February 2,2009 
An Act To Expand Super Pack License Opportunities 
Reference to the Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife suggested and ordered 
printed. 
Presented by RepresentativeHANLEY of Gardiner. 
Cosponsored by Senator JACKSON of Aroostook and 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Representatives: AYOTTE of Caswell, CRAY of Palmyra, DAVIS of Sangerville, GIFFORD 
of Lincoln, JOY of Crystal, McFADDEN of Dennysville, SA VIELLO of Wilton, 
THIBODEAU of Winterport. 
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 12 MR.SA §11109-A, sub-§I, as enacted by PL 2005, c. 477, §4, is 
amended to read: 
1. Moose lottery chances. A super pack license includes, upon application, 6 
chances in the moose lottery under section 11154, subsection 6, and the super pack 
licensee is eligible to accumulate points pursuant to section 11154, subsection 8 except 
that accumulated points may not be eliminated if, in any year, that person fails to 
purchase a new chance. 
Sec. 2. 12 MR.SA §11109-A, sub-§2, as repealed and replaced by PL 2007, c. 
492, § 1, is amended to read: 
2. Antlerless deer permit. A super pack license includes: 
A. The opportunity to enter an antlerless deer permit lottery pursuant to section 
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11152 as afforded by a license contained within the super pack license subject to the 
conditions and restrictions placed on that license; and 
B. An antlerless deer permit as provided under section 11152, except that it is valid 
only for antlerlessdeer in wildlife management districts in which at least ~ 
3,500 
antlerless deer permits are issued. 
No more than 2.5% of those antlerless deer 
permits may be in the form of a super pack license. 
The commissioner shall 
implement a system for issuing antlerless deer permits under this subsection. 
A super pack licensee that receives an antlerless deer permit pursuant to this subsection 
may take a 2nd deer either,antlered or ant'lerless under that permit. 
Sec. 3. 12 MRS A §11109-A, sub-§3, as amended by PL 2007, c. 492, §§2 and 3, 
is further amended to read: 
3. 
Harvest of 6 deer. 
Notwithstanding section 11501, a super pack license 
authorizes the holder to take: 
A. One deer during either the regular open firearm season or the regular archery-only 
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season .or the; 'special muzzle-loading season in accordance with sections 11401, 
11403 and 11404, respectively; 
B. GHe Two deer in accordance with subsection 2, paragraph B; and 
C. +ffi:ee One antlered deer and 2 antlerlessdeer during the special archery seasoriin 
accordance with section 11402, subsection 4. 
Sec. 4. 12 MRSA §11154, sub-§8, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 414, Pt. A, §2 and 
affected by c. 614, §9, is amended to read: 
8. Point system for public chance drawing. The department shall adopt rules to 
allow a person to accumulate one point for each consecutive year that person purchases 
an application for a moose hunting permit but is not selected to receive a permit. Each 
point entitles that applicant to one chance in the public chance drawing. A Except as 
provided in section 111 09-A. subsection 1, a person's accumulated points are eliminated 
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if, in any year, that person is selected to receive a pennit or that person fails to purchase a 
new chance. Rules adopted under this subsection are routine technical rules as defined in 
Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A. 
SUMMARY 
This bill provides that a super pack licensee is eligible for moose lottery bonus points 
and, unlike other license holders, accumulated bonus points are not eliminated if that 
person fails to purchase a new lottery chance the following year. It also expands the 
number and type of deer a super pack license holder is eligible to harvest.