Title 29-A, Title 29-A

1. Mandatory submission to test. A person who operates a commercial motor vehicle shall submit to a test to determine that person's alcohol level or the presence of a drug or drug metabolite if there is probable cause to believe that the person has operated a commercial motor veh…

1. Persons qualified to draw blood for blood tests. Only a physician, licensed physician associate, registered nurse or person whose occupational license or training allows that person to draw blood samples may draw a specimen of blood for the purpose of determining the blood-alc…

1. Submission to test required. If a drug recognition expert has probable cause to believe that a person is under the influence of a specific category of drug, a combination of specific categories of drugs or a combination of alcohol and one or more specific categories of drugs, …

1. Training program. The board of trustees of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy shall establish: A. A program that meets the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration guidelines for training and certification of drug recognition experts; and [PL 2011, c. 335, §15 (AMD).] B.…

The Department of Health and Human Services shall adopt rules regulating sample collection and testing procedures to ensure accurate and reliable testing and to protect the privacy of the person providing the sample. The rules may include, but are not limited to: [PL 1993, c. 683…

A physician; physician associate; registered nurse; other health care provider; other person whose occupational license or training allows that person to draw blood, including but not limited to an emergency medical services person or law enforcement officer; hospital; emergency …

1. Habitual offender defined. An habitual offender is a person whose record, as maintained by the Secretary of State, shows that: A. The person has accumulated 3 or more convictions or adjudications for distinct offenses described in this paragraph arising out of separate acts co…

Notwithstanding Title 4, section 152, subsection 9 and Title 5, sections 10003 and 10051, the Secretary of State shall immediately revoke, without preliminary hearing, the license to operate a motor vehicle of an habitual offender. [PL 1999, c. 547, Pt. B, §49 (AMD); PL 1999, c. …

1. Hearing on request. Any person whose license, permit or privilege to operate has been revoked pursuant to section 2552 may, within 30 days of notice of revocation, request a hearing to show cause why the license should not be revoked. 2. Issues. The only issues that are proper…

1. Petition for relief. After 3 years from the date of revocation, a person may petition for relief from habitual offender status. The petition must be presented to the Secretary of State. 2. Grant of relief by Secretary of State. If public safety will not be endangered and the p…

The Secretary of State shall revoke the license of a person whose license has been restored pursuant to section 2554 when: [PL 1993, c. 683, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 1993, c. 683, Pt. B, §5 (AFF).] 1. New convictions. Within a 5-year period of the restoration, the person commits a new…

1. Definition. For purposes of this section, a "work-restricted license" is a license to operate a motor vehicle between a residence and a place of employment, in the scope of employment, or both, as determined by the Secretary of State. 2. Petition. An habitual offender whose li…

1. Operating after habitual offender revocation. A person commits operating after habitual offender revocation if that person: A. Operates a motor vehicle on a public way, as defined in Title 17‑A, section 505, subsection 2, when that person's license to operate a motor vehicle h…

1. Crime. A person is guilty of aggravated operating after habitual offender revocation if that person violates section 2557‑A and at the time of the violation the person commits one or more of the following: A. OUI in violation of section 2411; [PL 2005, c. 606, Pt. A, §12 (NEW)…

1. Form of Uniform Summons and Complaint. Every law enforcement agency in this State shall use traffic summonses for civil violations defined in this Title and criminal traffic offenses defined in Title 23, section 1980 or this Title in the form known as the Uniform Summons and C…

1. Traffic infractions. The District Court has original and exclusive jurisdiction over prosecutions for traffic infractions. 2. Other violations. The District Court has original and concurrent jurisdiction with the Superior Court over prosecutions for other violations of this Ti…

1. Suspension by clerk. If a person fails to appear in court on the date and time specified in response to a Uniform Summons and Complaint, a summons, a condition of bail or order of court for any criminal violation of Title 23, section 1980; a civil violation under Title 28-A, s…

1. Confiscation of certificate or plates. If a law enforcement officer, in the course of stopping or detaining a motor vehicle, obtains a suspended certificate of registration, the officer shall confiscate the certificate or plates and transmit the confiscated items together with…

1. Transmission of abstract. For every conviction or adjudication of a violation relative to motor vehicles or to the operation of a vehicle, a court shall transmit to the Secretary of State an abstract, duly certified, setting forth the name of the court, the docket number of th…

If a person fails to answer in any traffic infraction proceeding under Title 23, section 1980 or any traffic infraction provision of this Title by the date specified in the Violation Summons and Complaint, fails to appear for trial or pay a fine assessed in any traffic infraction…