LAWS & RULES: SNOWMOBILE 19
A. A person shall:
( 1) Provide a registration certificate or an online registration receipt for inspection by any law enforcement officer on demand. A person may provide a registration certificate or an online registration receipt in electronic form; and
( 2) Display registration numbers in the form of stickers in such a form and manner as the commissioner may determine, except that an antique snowmobile is not required to display registration numbers. A person may operate a snowmobile registered online without displaying a registration number until that person receives the registration certificate from the department or for 30 days after registering the snowmobile online, whichever occurs first.
Note: The registration stickers must be displayed on both sides of the cowling.
13. Repealed
14. Report of destroyed, abandoned or permanently removed snowmobile. A registrant shall notify the commissioner if a snowmobile is destroyed, abandoned or permanently removed from the State.
15. Repealed 16. Repealed
17. Snowmobile Trail Fund Donation Sticker Program. The department has established the Snowmobile Trail Fund Donation Sticker Program. The department issues 3 different Snowmobile Trail Fund donation stickers to reflect a donor’ s donation of $ 25, $ 50 and $ 100, respectively. For every donation $ 2 is retained by the department and the remainder is transferred to the Snowmobile Trail Fund of the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Bureau of Parks and Lands.
A Snowmobile Trail Fund donation sticker is in addition to and separate from the snowmobile registration requirements of this section.
§ 13105 – Snowmobile registration agents
1. Appointment of snowmobile registration agents; report; fees. Appointment of snowmobile registration agents and applicable fees are governed by the following.
A. The commissioner may appoint municipal clerks or other persons who a municipality may designate as municipal agents to issue snowmobile registrations. The commissioner may designate other agents as necessary to issue snowmobile registrations. The commissioner shall determine by rule the period when the agents shall act.
B. Agents may charge a service fee of not more than $ 5 for each snowmobile registration or renewal registration covered by sections 13002 to 13005. This service fee is retained by the agent.
C. An agent is delinquent if that agent fails to forward to the commissioner funds collected by that agent by the date established in rules adopted under this subsection. Failure to remit the funds as provided in this subsection results in the following sanctions, in addition to any other provided by law.
( 1) If an agent is delinquent for more than 150 days or is delinquent 3 or more times in one year, the commissioner shall:
( a) Terminate the agency for the balance of the year; and
( b) Order that the agency not be renewed for the next year.
Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection are routine technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.
2. Unlawful issuance of snowmobile registration. An agent may not issue a resident snowmobile registration to a nonresident or a nonresident snowmobile registration to a resident.
§ 13106-A – Operation of snowmobile
1. No permission given. This chapter does not give license or permission to cross or go on the property of another.
2. Stop and identify requirement. Persons operating a snowmobile upon the land of another shall stop and identify themselves upon the request of the landowner or the landowner’ s duly authorized representative.
3. Operating snowmobile upon controlled access highway. Except as provided in paragraph A, a person may not operate a snowmobile upon a controlled access highway or within the right-of-way limits of a controlled access highway.
A. A person may operate a snowmobile upon a controlled access highway or within the right-of-way limits of a controlled access highway in accordance with this paragraph.
( 1) A person on a properly registered snowmobile may cross controlled access highways by use of bridges over or roads under those highways or by use of roads crossing controlled access highways at grade.
( 2) The Commissioner of Transportation may issue special permits for designated crossings of controlled access highways.
( 3) A person on a properly registered snowmobile may operate the snowmobile within the rightof-way limits of a controlled access highway on a trail segment approved by the Commissioner of Transportation or the board of directors of the Maine Turnpike Authority, as applicable.
4. Unlawfully operating snowmobile on plowed road. A person may not operate a snowmobile upon any plowed private road, or public road plowed privately without public compensation, after having been forbidden to do so by the owner thereof, the owner’ s agent or a municipal official, either personally or by appropriate notices posted conspicuously on that road.
5. Operating snowmobile on public way. Except as provided in subsection 3 and this subsection, a person may not operate a snowmobile upon the main traveled portion, the sidewalks or the plowed snowbanks of a public way.
A. A properly registered snowmobile may be operated on a public way only the distance necessary, but in no case to exceed 500 yards, on the extreme right of the traveled way for the purpose of crossing, as directly as possible, a public way, sidewalk or culvert.
B. A properly registered snowmobile may be operated on a public way only the distance necessary, but in no case to exceed 500 yards, on the extreme right of the traveled way for the sole purpose of crossing, as directly as possible, a bridge, overpass or underpass, as long as that operation can be made in safety and that it does not interfere with vehicular traffic approaching from either direction on the public way.
C. A snowmobile may be operated on any portion of a public way when the public way has been closed in accordance with Title 23, section 2953.
2024-25 STATE OF MAINE SUMMARY OF LAWS & RULES ATV & SNOWMOBILE