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An Act To Fund Maine's Recreational Trails
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1.  12 MRSA §1893, sub-§1, ¶C  is enacted to read:
 
C.  The bureau shall use funds in the ATV Recreational Management Fund under subsection 2 to ensure that maintenance of designated state-approved ATV trails occurs annually and to adopt and use best practices of motorized trail construction during construction and maintenance of designated state-approved ATV trails. The bureau shall adopt rules that establish a procedure to prioritize the bureau's maintenance of designated state-approved ATV trails. Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection are routine technical rules pursuant to Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.
Sec. 2. 12 MRSA §13155, sub-§5, as amended by PL 2019, c. 75, §3, is further amended to read:
 
5. Fees.   The ATV registration fee is:
 
A. For a resident, $45$70 annually. The registration for an ATV owned by a resident is valid for one year, beginning on July 1st of each year; and
 
B. For a nonresident:
 
(1) Seventy-fiveOne hundred dollars for a registration valid for 7 consecutive days. A person may purchase more than one 7-day registration in any season; and
 
(2) NinetyOne hundred fifteen dollars for a registration valid for one year.
 
The registration for an ATV owned by a nonresident must specify the dates for which the registration is valid.
 
Twelve dollars of each feeIn addition to funds collected under section 10206, $37 from a resident registration collected pursuant to this subsection must be deposited in the ATV Recreational Management Fund established inand must be used to maintain designated state-approved ATV trails in accordance with section 1893, subsection 2.
 
Ten dollarsIn addition to funds collected under section 10206, $10 of each fee collected pursuant to paragraph B must be deposited in the ATV Enforcement Fund established in section 10267.
Sec. 3. Effective date. That section of this Act that amends the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 12, section 13155, subsection 5 takes effect May 1, 2021.
 
SUMMARY
This bill is reported out by the Joint Standing Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife pursuant to Resolve 2019, chapter 35, section 1. The bill increases the registration fees for all-terrain vehicles by $25 for each type of registration. The bill provides that the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Bureau of Parks and Lands must use the registration fees deposited into the ATV Recreational Management Fund to oversee construction and maintenance of designated state-approved all-terrain vehicle trails.