As reported by the Republican-American:
This new law expands the list of flattened fauna that drivers get to keep to include moose and black bears.
Current law allows motorists to keep deer they strike and kill or seriously wound while driving. It is against state law to shoot
a deer from vehicles.In all cases, police or conversation officers must inspect the road kill and issue a report before someone can take the carcass
home. The law allows anyone else to take possession of the deer, moose or bear if the driver declines to do so — first come, first
served.
I’m not sure which bothers/amuses me more — the idea of people eating roadkill, the idea that there is a bureaucratic procedure
established to enable this to happen, or that we now have enough moose and bears in the state to make roadkill moose/bears worth
writing a law about.
Oh well. At least with the state legislature focusing their attentions on roadkill, they had less time to mess up things of
substance.