{"id":"DUT-ME-015","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Maine","state":"ME","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Maine Legislature (22 M.R.S. sec. 1561, Removal of private nuisance; enforced by local health officers)","authority":"R.S. 1954; P.L. 1973, c. 430; RR 2021, c. 2, Pt. B, sec. 93 (Revisor\u0027s correction)","instrument":"22 M.R.S. sec. 1561 (owner\u0027s or occupant\u0027s duty to remove, within 24 hours of the local health officer\u0027s notice, any source of filth \u0027determined to be potentially injurious to health\u0027; forfeiture; removal at owner\u0027s expense)","title":"22 M.R.S. sec. 1561, Removal of private nuisance (Maine Revised Statutes, section page as published by the Revisor of Statutes, rendered September 28, 2026)","dateIssued":"2021-01-01","effective":"standing; text in force throughout March 2020 to September 2021","end":"standing","startDate":"2021-01-01","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","COND"],"addressees":["owners or persons in control of premises (\u0027the owner or occupant\u0027 of private property)"],"clause":"When any source of filth whether or not the cause of sickness is found on private property and determined to be potentially injurious to health, the owner or occupant thereof shall, within 24 hours after notice from the local health officer, at the owner\u0027s or occupant\u0027s own expense, remove or discontinue it.","enforcement":"forfeiture of a sum not exceeding $300; removal by the local health officer with all expenses repaid to the town by the owner or occupant","functions":[],"notes":"Every owner or occupant of private property, including business premises, to remove or discontinue within 24 hours any condition the local health officer determines \u0027potentially injurious to health,\u0027 at the owner\u0027s own expense, on pain of forfeiture and removal by the town at the owner\u0027s expense.","sourceUrl":"https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/22/title22sec1561.html","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":173502,"grade":"primary","character":"sanitary_code_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-ME","url":"/library/DUT-ME-015","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-ME-015","citation":"Maine Legislature (22 M.R.S. sec. 1561, Removal of private nuisance; enforced by local health officers), 22 M.R.S. sec. 1561 (owner\u0027s or occupant\u0027s duty to remove, within 24 hours of the local health officer\u0027s notice, any source of filth \u0027determined to be potentially injurious to health\u0027; forfeiture; removal at owner\u0027s expense) (standing) (Ex. DUT-ME-015)","stateName":"Maine","related":["DUT-ME-009","DUT-ME-010"]}