| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | Sec. 1. 10 MRSA §3251, as amended by PL 1997, c. 264, §1, is | further amended to read: |
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| | Whoever performs labor or furnishes labor or materials, | including repair parts of machines used, or performs services as | a surveyor, an architect or an engineer, or as a real estate | licensee, or as an owner-renter, owner-lessor, or owner-supplier | of equipment used in erecting, altering, moving or repairing a | house, building or appurtenances, including any public building | erected or owned by any city, town, county, school district or | other municipal corporation, or in constructing, altering or | repairing a wharf or pier, or any building thereon, including the | surveying, clearing, grading, draining, excavating or landscaping | of the ground adjacent to and upon which any such objects are | constructed, or in selling any interest in land, improvements or | structures, by virtue of a contract with or by consent of the | owner, has a lien thereon and on the land on which it stands and | on any interest such owner has in the same, to secure payment | thereof, with costs. If the owner of the building has no legal | interest in the land on which the building is erected or to which | it is moved, the lien attaches to the building, and if the owner | of the wharf or pier has no legal interest in the land on which | the wharf or pier is erected, the lien attaches to the wharf or | pier, and in either case may be enforced as provided. If the | owner of such land, building, wharf or pier, so contracting, is a | minor or married woman, such lien exists and such minority or | coverture does not bar a recovery in any proceeding brought to | enforce it. A person who files a lien on real property pursuant | to this section shall meet the notice requirements specified in | Title 14, section 4651-A, subsection 5. |
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| | Sec. 2. 22 MRSA §1313-B, sub-§3, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 704, @12, | is amended to read: |
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| | 3. Other remedies. In addition to filing a civil action to | enforce this section: |
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| A. The municipality may record a lien against the property | of the owner or keeper of an animal if the person fails or | refuses to comply with an order to confine or quarantine the | animal; |
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| B. The municipal officers or their designated agent, such as the | animal control officer, shall serve written notice on the owner | or keeper of the animal that specifies the action |
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