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To meet those goals, the task force has 46 recommendations, including:
* Requiring landowners' permission to operate an ATV. Permission is presumed only on authorized trails or riding areas;
* Mandatory liability insurance for all ATVs;
* Higher fines for ATV violations, including a mandatory $1,000 fine for failing to stop for a law enforcement officer;
* Establishing a damage mitigation fund to repair environmental damage or to reimburse landowners for damage to crops, trees or orchards caused by ATV riders, when those riders cannot be identified or prosecuted;
* Making ATV violations count as points against a driver's license and an ATV OUI part of a driver's motor vehicle record;
* Making any violation of a criminal ATV law result in automatic impoundment of the ATV;
* Authorize a mud season closure for ATV trails similar to the road posting process, so it can be done at the local level;
* Encouraging increased ATV enforcement by creating a three-tier grant program, available by application to all law enforcement agencies in the State;
* Encouraging membership in ATV clubs by offering a discount registration for ATV club members;
* Distributing state ATV revenues in the same categories as snowmobile revenues: to the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Department for law enforcement and safety education; to the Conservation Department for trail
grants and equipment; to Maine towns, in lieu of excise taxes.
The full text of the recommendations are available on the ATV Task Force's website. Printed copies can be requested by calling 207-287-8000.
http://www.easterntrail.org/atvreccs.html
I think they should just ban them all.
* Requiring landowners' permission to operate an ATV. Permission is presumed only on authorized trails or riding areas;
* Mandatory liability insurance for all ATVs;
* Higher fines for ATV violations, including a mandatory $1,000 fine for failing to stop for a law enforcement officer;
* Establishing a damage mitigation fund to repair environmental damage or to reimburse landowners for damage to crops, trees or orchards caused by ATV riders, when those riders cannot be identified or prosecuted;
* Making ATV violations count as points against a driver's license and an ATV OUI part of a driver's motor vehicle record;
* Making any violation of a criminal ATV law result in automatic impoundment of the ATV;
* Authorize a mud season closure for ATV trails similar to the road posting process, so it can be done at the local level;
* Encouraging increased ATV enforcement by creating a three-tier grant program, available by application to all law enforcement agencies in the State;
* Encouraging membership in ATV clubs by offering a discount registration for ATV club members;
* Distributing state ATV revenues in the same categories as snowmobile revenues: to the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Department for law enforcement and safety education; to the Conservation Department for trail
grants and equipment; to Maine towns, in lieu of excise taxes.
The full text of the recommendations are available on the ATV Task Force's website. Printed copies can be requested by calling 207-287-8000.
http://www.easterntrail.org/atvreccs.html
I think they should just ban them all.
