CHAPTER 233

H.P. 361 - L.D. 469

An Act To Enhance the Powers of Law Enforcement Officers

Authorized To Make Out-of-county or Out-of-municipality

Arrests

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA §405, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 594, §1, is repealed.

Sec. 2. 30-A MRSA §405, sub-§1-A is enacted to read:

1-A.__Optional powers.__The county commissioners may authorize a county's sheriff and certified full-time deputy sheriffs who have met the requirements of Title 25, section 2804-C to perform any of the acts described in Title 17-A, section 15 while outside the jurisdiction in which they are appointed if, when possible, the law enforcement agency of a foreign municipality in which the arrest is to be made is notified in advance or, when not possible, the law enforcement agency of the foreign municipality in which the arrest has been made is notified immediately after the arrest.

Sec. 3. 30-A MRSA §405, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 594, §1, is amended to read:

2. Liability. When a county sheriff or deputy sheriff makes an arrest, as authorized in subsection 1 1-A, outside of jurisdictional limits of the county in which the sheriff or deputy sheriff is appointed, that sheriff or deputy sheriff has the same immunity from tort liability and all of the pension,