Title 25, Title 25

1. Age. An applicant must be 21 years of age or older to qualify for a position as a law enforcement officer unless the applicant has an associate's degree or 60 credit hours of postsecondary education, in which case the applicant must be at least 20 years of age.

If the commissioner or deputy commissioner is a law enforcement officer who is certified under sections 2804‑B and 2804‑C, the officer's certification does not lapse during the period the officer serves as commissioner or deputy commissioner.

Harbor masters and municipal shellfish conservation wardens must successfully complete the preservice law enforcement training requirements in section 2804‑B and the in-service law enforcement training requirements in section 2804‑E in order to have the power to make arrests or t…

The following provisions govern the training and certification of police officers appointed pursuant to section 2908. [PL 2009, c. 317, Pt. E, §2 (AMD).] 1. Security officers hired or appointed before March 1, 2002. 2. Police officers hired or appointed on or after March 1, 2002.…

As a condition to the continued employment of any person as a judicial marshal, that person must successfully complete, within the first 12 months of employment, the training required under section 2803‑A, subsection 8‑B. Thereafter, as a condition of continued employment as a ju…

Beginning July 1, 2019, all forest rangers and the state supervisor of the forest protection unit of the Bureau of Forestry within the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry must successfully complete the training requirements established under section 2803‑A, subse…

1. Training and certification required. Beginning July 1, 2025, as a condition to the continued employment of a person hired as a probation and parole officer, that person shall successfully complete, within the first 12 months of employment, a basic training course approved by t…

1. Required. Beginning July 1, 2025, as a condition to the continued employment of any person as a probation and parole officer, that person shall successfully complete in‑service training as prescribed by the board. Failure to successfully complete in-service training by a proba…

1. Annual report and records. Within 30 days of the close of each calendar year, the highest elected official of each political subdivision and the head of each state department and agency employing law enforcement or corrections officers subject to this chapter shall provide the…

1. Committee. The chair of the board shall appoint 5 members of the board to serve on the complaint review committee. Two of the members must be citizen members of the board. A majority of the members of the committee, including at least one citizen member, must be present for de…

1. Disciplinary proceedings and sanctions. The board or, as delegated, the complaint review committee, established pursuant to section 2805‑C, or staff, shall investigate a complaint on its own motion or upon receipt of a written complaint filed with the board regarding noncompli…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the event that a certificate holder is convicted of a crime or violation or engages in conduct that could result in suspension or revocation of the individual's certificate pursuant to section 2806‑A and the chief administrative offi…

1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings. A. "Governmental entity" means the State or any city, town, plantation or county or tribal government. [PL 2023, c. 242, §1 (AMD).] B. "Training" mean…

1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings. A. "Governmental entity" means the State or any city, town, plantation or county. [PL 2007, c. 240, Pt. ZZZ, §1 (NEW).] B. "Training" means the basic …

The board shall report annually to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal justice and public safety matters on the implementation and effectiveness of this chapter. The purpose of the report is to provide the Legislature annual informati…

There is created and established the Department of Public Safety to coordinate and efficiently manage the law enforcement and public safety responsibilities of the State, to consist of the Commissioner of Public Safety, in this chapter called "commissioner," who is appointed by t…

The commissioner is the chief executive officer of the Department of Public Safety and shall coordinate and supervise the activities and programs of the bureaus and agency that are part of the department; undertake comprehensive planning and analysis with respect to the functions…

The Commissioner of Public Safety shall organize the Department of Public Safety into the Maine Criminal Justice Academy and the following bureaus: [PL 1975, c. 579, §12 (NEW).] 1. Bureau of State Police. The Bureau of State Police, which is under the direction of the Chief of th…

The Commissioner of Public Safety, at the commissioner's discretion, is authorized to grant statewide power of enforcement of the criminal laws of the State to county and municipal law enforcement officers, as defined in section 2801‑A, subsection 5, assigned to the Department of…

1. Commissioner of Public Safety. Except as provided in subsection 2, the Commissioner of Public Safety is authorized and empowered to adopt rules, including a schedule of parking violation fees, subject to the approval of the Governor, governing the security regarding use and oc…

The words "public way" or "public ways," when used in this chapter, or regulations issued thereunder, shall be held to mean all roads and driveways on lands maintained for the State Government at the capital area or other state controlled locations in Augusta. [PL 1977, c. 138, §…

1. Rules. The Commissioner of Public Safety is authorized and empowered to make and enforce rules, subject to the approval of the Governor, governing the use of public ways and parking areas maintained by the State at the capitol area or other state-controlled locations in August…

The Commissioner of Public Safety shall establish and charge user fees for any or all parking facilities within the legally designated capitol complex, if considered feasible and with the approval of the Governor. [PL 1977, c. 138, §3 (NEW).] All user fees shall be credited to th…

1. Appointment of police officers. The Commissioner of Public Safety may appoint and employ police officers, subject to the Civil Service Law. The specific duties and powers of police officers appointed and employed are to patrol the public ways and parking areas, to provide secu…

The District Court for Southern Kennebec shall have jurisdiction in all proceedings brought under sections 2904 to 2907, which court shall take judicial notice of all rules adopted pursuant to sections 2904 to 2907. In any prosecution for violation of any rule, the complaint may …

Any person found guilty of violating any rule made pursuant to sections 2904 to 2907 shall, upon conviction, pay a fine of not less than $50 for each offense.

The commissioner may charge state agencies for security services provided at other state controlled locations pursuant to section 2908 if the security services are mutually agreed upon and confirmed by written contract between the commissioner and each state agency requesting sec…

1. Fund established. The Drug and Alcohol Resistance Education Fund, referred to in this section as the "fund," is established as a nonlapsing fund. The commissioner may use this fund only to support the activities of officers in the drug and alcohol resistance education program …

1. Development of uniform forensic examination kit. The Department of Public Safety shall determine by rule what constitutes a uniform standardized forensic examination kit for evidence collection in alleged cases of sexual assault. The rules must define the contents of the kit, …

1. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings. A. "Person" has the same meaning as in Title 5, section 206, subsection 2. [PL 2025, c. 138, §1 (NEW).] B. "Self-administered sexual assault forensic evidence collection kit" means materials…

The commissioner shall provide a gravesite flag holder and flag for placement during the period of time designated by a national law enforcement organization for honoring law enforcement officers at the gravesite of each public servant listed on the law enforcement memorial locat…

1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings. A. "Contact person program" or "program" means the program developed and operated pursuant to this section. [PL 2019, c. 442, §1 (NEW).] B. Law enforc…

The Department of Public Safety in acquiring and managing light-duty motor vehicles shall do so in accordance with Title 5, section 1830, subsection 12.

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings. [PL 1987, c. 840, §3 (NEW).] 1. Automatic location identification. "Automatic location identification" means a 9-1-1 service capability that enables the automatic dis…

Each municipality, plantation, county or unorganized territory that does not have a public safety answering point shall contract with an entity that does have a public safety answering point, which may be the department, for receiving 9-1-1 calls and, as appropriate, directly dis…

1. Notice. A public safety answering point shall provide notice to the bureau prior to discontinuing service to a municipality, plantation, county or unorganized territory. A public safety answering point may not provide the notice under this subsection less than one year prior t…

1. Reporting requirements. Annually, on a date prescribed by the Public Utilities Commission by rule, a public safety answering point and dispatch center shall each provide the bureau with a report of the costs incurred by the public safety answering point or dispatch center for …

The 9-1-1 Council, established in Title 5, section 12004‑I, subsection 74‑A and referred to in this section as "the council," shall advise and assist the bureau in the implementation of the 9-1-1 system. [PL 2025, c. 167, §19 (AMD).] 1. Membership. The council is composed of 17 m…

1. Bureau established. The Emergency Services Communication Bureau is established within the Public Utilities Commission to implement and manage 9‑1‑1, including the deployment of 9‑1‑1 service using emerging communications technologies, including, but not limited to, Internet pr…

1. Funding. The activities authorized under this chapter are funded through: A. The statewide 9-1-1 surcharge under subsection 2 levied on: (1) Each residential and business telephone exchange line, including private branch exchange lines and Centrex lines; (2) Semipublic coin an…

1. Definition. As used in this section, "confidential information" means the following information as contained in any database, report, audio recording or other record of the bureau or a public safety answering point: A. The names, addresses and telephone numbers of persons list…

1. Governmental entity. Subject to all the limitations and exceptions provided under the Maine Tort Claims Act, Title 14, chapter 741, a governmental entity is immune from tort liability for property damages, bodily injury or death resulting from acts or omissions occurring in de…

1. Prohibited use. A person is guilty of misuse of the 9-1-1 system if without reasonable cause the person, after having been forbidden to do so by a public safety answering point manager or administrator or a law enforcement officer: A. Makes repeated 9-1-1 calls to make nonemer…

1. Designated emergency telephone number. The primary telephone number to be used in a telephone exchange to request emergency services following the activation of 9‑1‑1 services for that exchange, including the number for telecommunications devices for communication for persons …

1. Implementation of 9-1-1 by local exchange carrier. Each local exchange carrier offering service over the public switched telephone network, in accordance with rules and procedures adopted by the Public Utilities Commission, shall implement the 9-1-1 system and provide the univ…

1. Requirements. The Public Utilities Commission may by rule establish requirements for locating 9-1-1 calls, and initiating emergency responses to such calls, made from within multiline telephone systems, including network-based or premises-based systems and voice over Internet …