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An Act To Prevent Persons Convicted of Child Molestation from Being Buried in a Maine Veterans' Cemetery
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 37-B MRSA §504, sub-§4, ¶G  is enacted to read:
 
G.  Notwithstanding paragraphs B and C, a person may not be buried after January 1, 2008 in any cemetery of the Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery System if that person has been convicted by a Maine court for the crime of sexual act, sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual contact, sexual touching, sexual exploitation or incest and the victim was under 18 years of age at the time the offense was committed or if that person has been convicted of a similar crime by any other state, provincial or federal court and the victim was under 18 years of age at the time the offense was committed.
 
SUMMARY
This bill prohibits the burial of a person in a cemetery of the Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery System if that person has been convicted by a court in Maine, or in any other state, provincial or federal court of a sexual crime against minors.