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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Maine
- Level
- State
- Authority
- R.S. 1954; P.L. 1973, c. 430; RR 2021, c. 2, Pt. B, sec. 93 (Revisor's correction)
- Issued
- 2021-01-01 Jan. 1, 2021
- Effective
- standing; text in force throughout March 2020 to September 2021 (read as 2021-01-01)
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since Jan. 1, 2021 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Standing dutyOperating condition
- Addressees
- owners or persons in control of premises ('the owner or occupant' of private property)
- Character
- sanitary code duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Maine DUT-ME
Operative words
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's or occupant's own expense, remove or discontinue it.
Penalty
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
What it required
Every owner or occupant of private property, including business premises, to remove or discontinue within 24 hours any condition the local health officer determines 'potentially injurious to health,' at the owner's own expense, on pain of forfeiture and removal by the town at the owner's expense.
Retrieval noteRendered from the Revisor's live section page on Sept. 28, 2026 (the Wayback capture of Nov. 1, 2020 could not be rendered because the Internet Archive was offline); the section's history shows no substantive amendment since 1973, so the saved text is the text in force in 2020-2021. 22 M.R.S. sec. 454-A(2)(H)(3) (Ex. DUT-ME-009) directs local health officers to enforce this section. The file date in the name is a placeholder for a standing statute, not an issue date.