An Act To Prohibit the Use of Certain Motorboats on Lily Pond in Deer Isle
Maine Legislature, Session 125, LD 0356
Committee: Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
Sponsors: KUMIEGA, LANGLEY, CHAPMAN
Amends: 12 MRSA §13068-A

Legislative Document 
No. 356 
H.P. 282 
House of Representatives, February 8, 2011 
An Act To Prohibit the Use of Certain Motorboats on Lily Pond in 
Deer Isle 
Reference to the Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife suggested and ordered 
printed. 
HEATHER J.R. PRIEST 
Clerk 
Presented by Representative KUMIEGA of Deer Isle. 
Cosponsored by Senator LANGLEY of Hancock and 
Representative: CHAPMAN of Brooksville. 
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, 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; 
(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 1/2 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 
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; or 
(22)  Operate a motorboat having more than 10 horsepower on Pickerel Pond in 
the territory of T.32 MD in Hancock County.; or 
(23)  Operate a motorboat powered by an internal combustion engine on Lily 
Pond in Deer Isle. 
SUMMARY 
This bill prohibits the use of a motorboat powered by an internal combustion engine 
on Lily Pond in Deer Isle.