1. Failure to report after stay of execution. A defendant who has been sentenced but granted a stay of execution to report until a specified date or event and who, in fact, fails to report as ordered is guilty of:
A. A Class E crime if the underlying crime was punishable by a maximum period of imprisonment of less than one year; or [PL 1995, c. 456, §1 (NEW).]
B. A Class C crime if the underlying crime was punishable by a maximum period of imprisonment of one year or more. [PL 1995, c. 456, §1 (NEW).]
2. Affirmative defense. It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under subsection 1 that the failure to report resulted from just cause.
3. Strict liability. Violation of this section is a strict liability crime as defined in Title 17-A, section 34, subsection 4-A.