12 §6402. Suspension based on adjudication of molesting - Maine Statutes

Title 12: CONSERVATION

Part 9: MARINE RESOURCES

Subpart 2: LICENSING

Chapter 617: LICENSE SUSPENSION

Subchapter 2: SUSPENSION PENALTIES

§6402. Suspension based on adjudication of molesting

The commissioner shall suspend the lobster and crab fishing license of a license holder or the nonresident lobster and crab landing permit of a permit holder adjudicated in court of violating section 6434. This suspension is for 3 years from the date of adjudication. For a 3rd or subsequent adjudication, the commissioner may permanently revoke the license holder's license. [2009, c. 561, §13 (RPR).]

1. Adjudications for cutting lobster trap lines. A person adjudicated under section 6434 of molesting lobster gear by cutting a lobster trap line shall, upon making full payment as ordered by the court under section 6434, subsection 4, paragraph A, provide the commissioner with proof of that payment. If the commissioner does not receive that proof within 3 years after the date of adjudication, the commissioner shall continue that license suspension until such time as that proof is received.

[ 2009, c. 151, §5 (AMD) .]

SECTION HISTORY

1977, c. 661, §5 (NEW). 1993, c. 543, §1 (AMD). 2007, c. 201, §1 (AMD). 2009, c. 151, §5 (AMD). 2009, c. 394, §3 (AMD). 2009, c. 561, §13 (AMD).