Title 30-A, Title 30-A

An officer may not appear before any court as attorney or adviser of any party in an action or draw any writ, complaint, declaration, citation, process or plea for any other person; all such acts are void. A person employed by the keeper of a jail in any capacity may not exercise…

1. Uniforms provided. Every county shall furnish one uniform to the sheriff and to each full-time deputy, sufficient to identify them as officers of the law. If the county commissioners approve, the county may provide more than one uniform for each. The sheriffs shall require eac…

1. Sheriff. No sheriff may directly or indirectly coerce, attempt to coerce or command any county employee or deputy to pay, lend or contribute anything of value to, or to engage in any political service or activity on behalf of, a party, committee, organization, agency or person…

1. Manner of election or appointment. Sheriffs are elected or appointed and hold their offices according to the Constitution of Maine. Their election must be conducted and determined as is provided for county commissioners. Sheriffs take office on the first day of January followi…

1. Bond required. Every person elected or appointed sheriff for the Counties of York, Cumberland, Kennebec or Penobscot, before receiving that commission, must give bond to the Treasurer of State with at least 3 sufficient sureties or with the bond of a surety company authorized …

1. Salaries; full compensation. County sheriffs shall receive annual salaries as set forth in subsection 3. The salaries are in full compensation for: A. Services in attendance upon the Supreme Judicial Court and upon the Superior Court; [PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 1987…

The office of county sheriff is a full-time office in each county. The duties of the county sheriff include law enforcement, jail administration and court services, with irregular hours, requiring a nonstandard work schedule.

The sheriff may appoint, subject to the requirements of section 501, full-time or part-time deputies, whose special duties are to enforce the criminal laws in the county. [PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. C, §106 (NEW); PL 1989, c. 6 (AMD); PL 1989, c. 9, §2…

1. Appointment. Sheriffs may at any time appoint and train as special deputies citizens more than 18 years of age. The appointment must be in writing, signed by the sheriff, and include the residence and post office address of each special deputy. The appointment must be recorded…

1. Appointment. As soon as possible after taking office, the sheriff in each county shall appoint a chief deputy to serve under the sheriff. The appointment must be in writing, signed by the sheriff and recorded in the office of the county commissioners in the county. The appoint…

Before receiving a commission, every person appointed chief deputy under section 383, or appointed a deputy under section 381, shall give bond to the Treasurer of State with at least 3 sufficient sureties, or with the bond of a surety company authorized to do business in this Sta…

1. Chief deputy's powers. If the office of sheriff becomes vacant because of death, resignation or otherwise, the chief deputy shall have and exercise the same rights and powers and be subject to the same duties and liabilities as a sheriff until the vacancy in the office of sher…

1. Full-time deputies. The county commissioners of each county in which deputies are employed shall set the rate of compensation for deputies employed in the county commissioners' county. The county treasurers shall pay the compensation, together with those incidental expenses th…

No county officer may receive a private benefit from the labor of any person employed by the county.

1. Sheriff's duties. The sheriff shall act as the chief county law enforcement officer and is responsible for administering and directing the sheriff's department as authorized by the county budget. The sheriff shall inform the county commissioners of sheriff's department activit…

1. Officer may require aid. Any law enforcement officer may require suitable aid in the execution of official duties in criminal and traffic infraction cases for the following reasons: A. For the preservation of the peace; or [PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 1987, c. 737, Pt…

Any officer, who unreasonably neglects or refuses, on demand, to pay money received by him on execution to the person entitled to the money, shall pay 5 times the lawful interest on that money so long as the officer retains the money.

Every sheriff or deputy sheriff in fresh pursuit of a person who travels beyond the limits of the county in which the sheriff or deputy is appointed has the same power to arrest that person as the sheriff or deputy has within the sheriff's or deputy's own county. This section app…

1. Optional powers. 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 j…

Sheriffs and their deputies shall receive the following fees, unless the sheriffs and deputies are paid a salary instead of the fees: [PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. C, §106 (NEW); PL 1989, c. 6 (AMD); PL 1989, c. 9, §2 (AMD); PL 1989, c. 104, Pt. C, §§8, …

No sheriff may receive any fees earned by the sheriff's deputies or any percentage of those fees from any of the deputies.

The sheriff shall charge and collect, as provided by law, all fees chargeable under the laws for performing any of the duties described in section 373. The sheriff shall keep an accurate account of those fees, and of those specified in section 424, and transmit that account to th…

For all prisoners committed from other counties or from any court of the United States and for all other persons confined on civil processes, sheriffs shall collect the same fees for their entire support as are provided by law or may be set by the county commissioners as provided…

Any person injured by the neglect or misdoings of a sheriff, who has first determined the amount of those damages by judgment in a civil action against the sheriff, the sheriff's executors or administrators, or by a decree of the Probate Court allowing that claim, at the injured …

Any other person having a right of action on a sheriff's bond may file an additional complaint in the same action in the office of the clerk of courts. The clerk shall issue a summons, directed to the defendant, specifying the cause of action and the amount demanded, returnable t…

No sheriff may be arrested upon any writ or execution in a civil action. When a judgment is rendered against the sheriff in the sheriff's private or official capacity, the execution on that judgment shall issue against the sheriff's property but not against the sheriff's body. [P…

The Treasurer of State shall deliver an attested copy of a sheriff's bond to anyone applying and paying for it. That copy is competent evidence in any case relating to the sheriff's bond, unless its execution is disputed, in which case the court may order the treasurer to produce…

Actions for the neglect or misdoings of a sheriff or the sheriff's deputies survive the sheriff and may be brought against the sheriff's executors or administrators.

Whenever the county commissioners find that the sheriff is not faithfully or efficiently performing any duty imposed by this chapter or that the sheriff is improperly exercising or acting outside the sheriff's authority, the commissioners may file a complaint with the Governor de…

As used in this article, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings. [PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. C, §106 (NEW); PL 1989, c. 6 (AMD); PL 1989, c. 9, §2 (AMD); PL 1989, c. 104, Pt. C, §§8, 10 (AMD).] 1. Ambula…

The sheriff in each county, in person or by the sheriff's deputies, to the extent the sheriff undertakes to patrol, shall patrol those areas in the county that have no local law enforcement but may not be required by law to patrol the entire county. The county commissioners, with…

Each county may establish a communications center, separate from any communications function of the sheriff's department and capable of serving the communication needs of the county and the municipalities that may wish to use the center. [PL 2013, c. 462, §8 (AMD).] The county co…

Each county shall provide detention facilities, either within the county or, by contract with another county, outside the county. Counties may enter into an agreement under chapter 115 to provide consolidated detention facilities for the use of the agreeing counties.

Counties may provide investigation, intelligence or laboratory services within the sheriff's department to aid county law enforcement, municipal police departments or the district attorney. The county may set uniform charges payable by municipalities for specific laboratory proce…

Each county may provide rescue services through the sheriff's department and deputies.

1. Scope of service. Each county may provide ambulance service: A. To the entire county, omitting only those municipalities who request not to be included; or [PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. C, §106 (NEW); PL 1989, c. 6 (AMD); PL 1989, c. 9, §2 (AMD); PL 1…

Each county may provide juvenile services either through the sheriff's department or by other county personnel.

By January 1, 1992, each county shall establish the capacity to hold a juvenile for 72 hours, excluding Saturday, Sunday and legal holidays, either in a temporary holding resource, as defined in Title 15, section 3003, subsection 26 or in a secure detention facility, as defined i…

Each county may undertake administrative, management and supporting functions required to implement the law enforcement functions authorized by this chapter, including the recruitment and training of county personnel, maintenance of records and preservation of evidence, purchasin…

Each county is encouraged to establish a victim and witness support program to assist the victims and witnesses of criminal offenses in the prosecution of those offenses. Each county is further encouraged to hire, train and provide support staff to a qualified person or persons t…

1. Reimbursement for costs. The State may reimburse communities with populations of less than 200 that have no Interstate 95 exit within the town limits of that town for those communities' costs of providing fire, ambulance or other rescue services for accidents that occur on Int…

Except as otherwise provided by county charter or ordinance, the county commissioners may authorize the sheriff or other designee to request other counties to provide law enforcement officers to assist the requesting county. The county commissioner may authorize the sheriff or ot…

1. Programs established. Each sheriff's department may establish a program to deputize volunteer parking enforcement specialists to enforce disabled parking restrictions in private parking lots within the county, in areas that are not within the jurisdiction of a municipal police…

1. Programs established. Each municipal police department, with the approval of the municipal officers, may establish a program or contract with the sheriff to carry out a program to deputize volunteer parking enforcement specialists to enforce disabled parking restrictions in pr…

1. Training manual. An applicant for the position of parking enforcement specialist shall be provided with a copy of a self-paced study guide and training manual approved by the Commissioner of Public Safety. The manual shall include, but is not limited to, instruction in: A. Wha…

Sections 2604 and 2605, invalidating certain actions due to conflicts of interest, apply to all county officials.