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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 1051
H.P. 680 House of Representatives, March 14, 2025
An Act to Provide Funding to Maintain All-terrain Vehicle Trails
Received by the Clerk of the House on March 12, 2025. Referred to the Committee on
Inland Fisheries and Wildlife pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to Joint
Rule 401.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative HALL of Wilton.
Page 1 - 132LR1047(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §1893, sub-§2, ¶A, as repealed and replaced by PL 2021, c. 215,
3 §3, is amended by enacting a new subparagraph (6-A) to read:
4 (6-A) Distributing, as described in section 13155, subsection 5, the funds to
5 municipalities and unorganized territories to be used for the purposes of
6 maintaining ATV trails located within those municipalities and unorganized
7 territories;
8Sec. 2. 12 MRSA §13155, sub-§5, as amended by PL 2021, c. 215, §7 and affected
9 by §15, is further amended by amending the first blocked paragraph to read:
10 Thirty-seven dollars of each fee collected pursuant to this subsection must be deposited in
11 the ATV Recreational Management Fund established in section 1893, subsection 2 and
12 must be used to maintain designated state-approved ATV trails, except that 20% of the
13 funds deposited pursuant to this paragraph must be annually distributed to the municipality
14 of the ATV owner's residence as shown on the owner's registration certificate, or, if the
15 owner's residence as shown on the certificate is within unorganized territory, to the
16 unorganized territory fund of the county of the owner's residence established in Title 30-A,
17 section 7502, to be used for the purposes described in section 1893, subsection 2, paragraph
18 A, subparagraph (6-A).
19SUMMARY
20 This bill requires that a percentage of funds collected from all-terrain vehicle
21 registration fees under current law be allocated to the municipality or unorganized territory
22 of the all-terrain vehicle owner's address as shown on the owner's registration certificate
23 for the purpose of maintaining all-terrain vehicle trails located within that municipality or
24 unorganized territory.
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