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other drug listed in section 1102, subsection 1, paragraph | | O. Violation of this paragraph is a Class A crime. |
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| | | Sec. 5. 17-A MRSA §1105-C, sub-§1, ¶¶I and J, as enacted by PL 2001, c. | | 667, Pt. D, §32 and affected by §36, are amended to read: |
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| | | I. At the time of the offense, the person furnishes 300 | | or more pills, capsules, tablets, vials, ampules, syringes | | or units containing any narcotic drug other than heroin, | | or any quantity of pills, capsules, tablets, units, | | compounds, mixtures or substances that, in the aggregate, | | contains 8,000 milligrams or more of oxycodone or 1,000 | | milligrams or more of hydromorphone.__Violation of this | | paragraph is a Class B crime; or |
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| | | J. At the time of the offense, the person furnishes a | | quantity of 300 or more pills, capsules, tablets or units | | containing 3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, MDMA, or | | any other drug listed in section 1102, subsection 1, | | paragraph O. Violation of this paragraph is a Class B | | crime. |
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| | | Sec. 6. 17-A MRSA §1109, sub-§1, as repealed and replaced by PL | | 2001, c. 667, Pt. D, §33 and affected by §36, is amended to | | read: |
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| | | 1. A person is guilty of stealing drugs if the person | violates chapter 15, sections section 353, 355 or 356 356-A | | knowing or believing that the subject of the theft is a | | scheduled drug, and it is in fact a scheduled drug, and the | | theft is from a person authorized to possess or traffick in | | that scheduled drug. |
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| | | Sec. 7. 17-A MRSA §1252, sub-§4-A, as repealed and replaced by PL | | 2001, c. 667, Pt. A, §39 and affected by §40, is amended to | | read: |
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| | | 4-A. If the State pleads and proves that, at the time any | | crime, excluding murder, under chapter 9, 11, 13 or 27 was | | committed, the defendant had been convicted of 2 or more | | crimes violating chapter 9, 11, 13 or 27 or essentially | | similar crimes in other jurisdictions, the sentencing class | | for the crime is one class higher than it would otherwise be. | | In the case of a Class A crime, the sentencing class is not | | increased, but the prior record must be given serious | | consideration by the court when imposing a sentence. Section | | 9-A governs the use of prior convictions when determining a | | sentence, except that, for the purposes of this subsection, | | for violations under chapter 11, the dates of prior | | convictions may have occurred at any time. |
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