An Act To Amend the Fees for Snowmobile Registration
Maine Legislature, Session 127, LD 0716
Committee: Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
Sponsors: STANLEY, LAJOIE, SHAW, SHERMAN
Amends: 12 MRSA §1893, 12 MRSA §13002, 12 MRSA §13104, 36 MRSA §1760, 36 MRSA §3218

Legislative Document 
No. 716 
H.P. 492 
House of Representatives, March 5, 2015 
An Act To Amend the Fees for Snowmobile Registration 
Reference to the Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife suggested and ordered 
printed. 
ROBERT B. HUNT 
Clerk 
Presented by Representative STANLEY of Medway. 
Cosponsored by Representatives: LAJOIE of Lewiston, SHAW of Standish, SHERMAN of 
Hodgdon. 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1.  12 MRSA §1893, sub-§3, ¶D, as enacted by PL 2007, c. 429, §1 and 
affected by §3, is repealed. 
Sec. 2.  12 MRSA §13002, 2nd ¶, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 414, Pt. A, §2 and 
affected by c. 614, §9, is amended to read: 
All Except as provided in Title 36, section 1952-A, all taxes collected pursuant to this 
section must be transmitted forthwith to the Treasurer of State and credited to the General 
Fund as undedicated revenue.  The Legislature shall appropriate to the department in each 
fiscal year an amount equal to the administrative costs incurred by the department in 
collecting revenue under this section.  Those administrative costs must be verified by the 
Department of Administrative and Financial Services. 
Sec. 3.  12 MRSA §13104, sub-§4, as repealed and replaced by PL 2011, c. 129, 
§1 and amended by c. 657, Pt. W, §§5 and 7 and PL 2013, c. 405, Pt. A, §24, is further 
amended to read: 
4.  Fee.  Except as provided in subsection 5, the annual snowmobile registration fee is 
as follows: 
A.  For residents, $40 $50.  The registration for a snowmobile owned by a resident is 
valid for one year, commencing on July 1st of each year; and 
B.  For nonresidents: 
(1)  Forty-three Forty-nine dollars for a 3-consecutive-day registration.  A person 
may purchase more than one 3-day registration in any season; and 
(2)  Eighty-eight Ninety-nine dollars for a seasonal registration.; and 
(3)  Seventy-five dollars for a 7-consecutive-day registration.  A person may 
purchase more than one 7-day registration in any season. 
The registration for a snowmobile owned by a nonresident must specify the dates for 
which the registration is valid. 
Five dollars from each registration fee collected pursuant to this subsection must be 
transferred to a special fund administered by the Off-Road Vehicle Division of the 
Bureau of Parks and Lands within the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and 
Forestry.  The funds must be used to assist any entity that has a snowmobile trail 
grooming contract with the Bureau of Parks and Lands in the purchase of trail-grooming 
equipment.  The funds also may be used for the repair or overhaul of trail-grooming 
equipment. 
Seven Seventeen dollars from each resident snowmobile registration fee must be 
transferred to the Snowmobile Trail Fund of the Department of Agriculture, Conservation 
and Forestry, Bureau of Parks and Lands. 
Six dollars from each nonresident 3-day snowmobile registration fee and $11 from each 
nonresident seasonal snowmobile registration fee must be transferred to the Snowmobile 
Trail Fund of the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Bureau of Parks 
and Lands. 
Sec. 4.  36 MRSA §1760, sub-§8, as amended by PL 2011, c. 548, §16, is further 
amended to read: 
8.  Certain motor fuels.  Sales of: 
A.  Motor fuels upon which a tax at the maximum rate for highway use pursuant to 
Part 5 or a comparable tax of another state or a province of Canada has been paid; or 
B.  Internal combustion engine fuel, as defined in section 2902, bought and used for 
the purpose of propelling jet engine aircraft.; or 
E.  Diesel fuel when bought for use in off-road machinery that is used primarily to 
groom snowmobile trails that are open to use by the public. 
Sec. 5.  36 MRSA §3218, last ¶, as repealed and replaced by PL 2003, c. 390, 
§17, is amended to read: 
All fuel Fuel qualifying for a refund under this section is subject to the use tax 
imposed by chapter 215, unless exempted under section 1760. 
SUMMARY 
This bill makes the following changes related to snowmobile registration and sales 
tax on diesel fuel used in snowmobile trail-grooming machinery. 
1. It increases the resident snowmobile registration fee from $40 to $50 and allocates 
the additional $10 to the Snowmobile Trail Fund of the Department of Agriculture, 
Conservation and Forestry, Bureau of Parks and Lands. 
2. The bill increases the 3-day nonresident snowmobile registration fee from $43 to 
$49 and increases the seasonal nonresident registration from $88 to $99 and allocates the 
additional revenue to the Snowmobile Trail Fund of the Department of Agriculture, 
Conservation and Forestry, Bureau of Parks and Lands. 
3. It creates a 7-day nonresident snowmobile registration with a fee of $75. 
4. It amends the law governing the special fuel tax to make it clear that fuel 
qualifying for a refund under that law does not lose the sales tax exemption created in the 
bill for diesel fuel used in snowmobile trail-grooming machinery.