CHAPTER 361
S.P. 532 - L.D. 1573
An Act To Make Minor Changes to the Required Law Enforcement Policies
Mandate preamble. This measure requires one or more local units of government to expand or modify activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenues but does not provide funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. Pursuant to the Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 21, 2/3 of all of the members elected to each House have determined it necessary to enact this measure.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 25 MRSA §2803-B, sub-§1, ¶D, as amended by PL 2001, c. 686, Pt. B, §1, is further amended to read:
D. Domestic violence, which must include, at a minimum, the following:
(1) A process to ensure that a victim receives notification of the defendant's release from jail;
(2) A risk assessment for A process for the collection of information regarding the defendant that includes the defendant's previous history, the parties' relationship, the name of the victim and a process to relay this information to a bail commissioner before a bail determination is made; and
(3) A process for the safe retrieval of personal property belonging to the victim or the defendant that includes identification of a possible neutral location for retrieval, the presence of at least one law enforcement officer during the retrieval and giving the victim the option of at least 24 hours notice to each party prior to the retrieval;
Effective September 13, 2003, unless otherwise indicated.
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