Title 15, Title 15

A final judgment entered under section 2183, subsection 5 or 7 may be reviewed by the Supreme Judicial Court sitting as the Law Court. [PL 2009, c. 287, §1 (NEW).] 1. Appeal by the person. A person aggrieved by the final judgment under section 2183, subsection 5 or 7 may not appe…

1. Prohibition. A person with serious mental illness may not be detained or confined solely because of that mental illness in any jail, prison or other detention or correctional facility unless that person is being detained or serving a sentence for commission of a crime. 2. Appl…

Persons admitted under section 2211‑A, except convicts in execution of sentence, shall be supported in a state hospital for the mentally ill as provided in Title 34, chapter 195.

When a woman is to be transported to or from a state hospital for the mentally ill under this chapter, the officer making application for her admission shall, unless she is to be accompanied by her husband or any adult relative, designate a woman to be an attendant or one of the …

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings. [PL 2021, c. 674, §1 (NEW).] 1. Administration of criminal justice. "Administration of criminal justice" has the same meaning as in Title 16, section 703, subsection …

Except as provided in section 2262‑A, criminal history record information relating to a specific criminal conviction may be sealed under this chapter only if: [PL 2023, c. 409, §1 (AMD).] 1. Eligible criminal conviction. The criminal conviction is an eligible criminal conviction;…

Criminal history record information relating to a criminal conviction for engaging in prostitution under Title 17‑A, former section 853-A must be sealed under this chapter if: [PL 2023, c. 409, §2 (NEW).] 1. Eligible criminal conviction. The criminal conviction is an eligible cri…

A person may file a written motion seeking a court order sealing the person's criminal history record information relating to a specific criminal conviction in the underlying criminal proceeding based on a court determination that the person satisfies the statutory prerequisites …

1. Filing motion. A motion filed pursuant to section 2263 must be filed in the underlying criminal proceeding. After the motion is filed, the clerk shall set the motion for hearing. 2. Counsel. The person filing a motion pursuant to section 2263 has the right to be represented by…

Notwithstanding Title 16, section 704, the criminal history record information relating to a criminal conviction sealed under section 2264 is confidential, must be treated as confidential criminal history record information for the purposes of dissemination to the public under Ti…

A person whose eligible criminal conviction is the subject of a sealing order under section 2264 may respond to inquiries from persons other than criminal justice agencies and other than entities that are authorized to obtain the sealed criminal history record information under s…

A written order entered under section 2264, subsection 5 or 7 may be reviewed by the Supreme Judicial Court. [PL 2021, c. 674, §1 (NEW).] 1. Appeal by person. A person aggrieved by a written order under section 2264, subsection 5 or 7 may not appeal as of right. The time for taki…

Notwithstanding Title 16, section 704, the criminal history record information relating to a criminal conviction for which the court has determined the person is entitled to special restrictions on dissemination and use under former section 2254 is confidential and may not be dis…

A person who, in violation of section 2265 or 2268, intentionally disseminates sealed criminal history record information relating to a criminal conviction knowing it to be in violation of section 2265 or 2268 is guilty of unlawful dissemination of sealed records. Violation of th…

This chapter may be cited as the "Interstate Compact on the Mentally Disordered Offender" and is hereinafter in this chapter called the "compact."

1. Policy. The party states, desiring by common action to improve their programs for the care and treatment of mentally disordered offenders, declare that it is the policy of each of the party states to: A. Strengthen their own programs and laws for the care and treatment of the …

1. Mentally disordered offender. "Mentally disordered offender" means a person who has been determined, by adjudication or other method legally sufficient for the purpose in the party state where the determination is made, to be mentally ill and: A. Is under sentence for the comm…

1. Contracts. Each party state may make one or more contracts with any one or more of the other party states for the care and treatment of mentally disordered offenders on behalf of a sending state in facilities situated in receiving states, or for the participation of such menta…

1. Custody, care and treatment. Whenever the duly constituted judicial or administrative authorities in a state party to this compact, and which has entered into a contract pursuant to Article III, shall decide that custody, care and treatment in, or transfer of a patient to, a f…

1. Responsibility. Whenever the authorities responsible for the care and treatment of a mentally disordered offender, whether convicted or adjudicated in the state or subject to care, aftercare, treatment or rehabilitation pursuant to a contract, are of the opinion that charges b…

1. Decision. Any decision of the sending state in respect of any matter over which it retains jurisdiction pursuant to this compact shall be conclusive upon and not reviewable within the receiving state, but if, at the time the sending state seeks to remove a patient from the rec…

Any state party to this compact may accept federal aid for use in connection with any facility or program, the use of which is or may be affected by this compact or any contract pursuant thereto and any patient in a receiving state pursuant to this compact may participate in any …

This compact shall enter into force and become effective and binding upon the states so acting when it has been enacted into law by any 2 states from among the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and…

This compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon a party state until it shall have enacted a statute repealing the same and providing for the sending of formal written notice of withdrawal from the compact to the appropriate officials of all other party states. An act…

Nothing contained in this compact shall be construed to abrogate or impair any agreement or other arrangement which a party state may have with a nonparty state for the custody, care, treatment, rehabilitation or aftercare of patients nor to repeal any other laws of a party state…

The provisions of this compact shall be liberally construed and shall be severable. If any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any participating state or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any g…

The Department of Health and Human Services may negotiate and enter into contracts on behalf of this State pursuant to Article III of the compact and may perform such contracts; provided that no funds, personnel, facilities, equipment, supplies or materials shall be pledged for, …

This Part shall be known and may be cited as the Maine Juvenile Code.

1. Purposes. The purposes of this Part are: A. To secure for each juvenile subject to these provisions such care and guidance, preferably in the juvenile's own home, as will best serve the juvenile's welfare and the interests of society; [PL 1997, c. 645, §1 (AMD).] B. To preserv…

As used in this Part, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings. [PL 1977, c. 520, §1 (NEW).] 1. Adjudicatory hearing. "Adjudicatory hearing" means a hearing to determine whether the allegations of a petition under c…

All forms, reporting formats, and other standardized written materials necessary to fulfill the requirements of this Part must be uniform for all state and local agencies providing services according to the provisions of this Part; and those forms, reporting formats, and other st…

In addition to any rights given to victims of juvenile crimes in this Part, the victim of a juvenile crime has the rights that a victim has under Title 17‑A, section 2106.

Pursuant to Title 20‑A, section 6001, schools may distribute education records of preadjudicated juveniles to criminal justice agencies or agencies that by court order or agreement of the juvenile are responsible for the health or welfare of the juvenile if the education records …

1. Notification to superintendent. When a juvenile in the custody of the Department of Corrections seeks admission to a public school or a private school approved for tuition purposes, the Department of Corrections shall provide notice to the superintendent of the school to which…

1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings. A. "Confidential juvenile history record information" means all juvenile history record information except public juvenile history record information.…

1. District Court as Juvenile Court. The District Court shall exercise the jurisdiction conferred by this Part and, when exercising such jurisdiction, shall be known and referred to as the Juvenile Court. 2. Juvenile Court jurisdiction. A. The Juvenile Court shall have exclusive …

Proceedings in cases brought under the provisions of section 3101 must be commenced in accordance with Rule 21 of the Maine Rules of Unified Criminal Procedure.

1. Definition. The term "juvenile crime," as used in this Part, means the following offenses: A. Conduct that, if committed by an adult, would be defined as criminal by Title 17‑A, the Maine Criminal Code, or by any other criminal statute outside that code, including any rule or …

The following provisions of Title 17‑A, Part 1 are applicable to juvenile crimes: [PL 2013, c. 234, §8 (NEW).] 1. Chapter 1. Chapter 1, except section 1; section 2, subsections 3‑C and 5‑B; and sections 6, 8, 9 and 17; 2. Chapter 2. Chapter 2, except section 40; 3. Chapter 3. Cha…

Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to take away from the juvenile court any jurisdiction or duties conferred upon the court by general law, nor to take away from the District Court jurisdiction over offenses conferred on that court and not removed by this Part.

1. Expiration of limitation; defense. It is a defense that prosecution was commenced after the expiration of the applicable period of limitations provided in this section, except that a prosecution for the juvenile crime of murder or criminal homicide in the first or 2nd degree m…

1. Warrantless arrests. Arrests without warrants of juveniles for juvenile crimes defined by section 3103, subsection 1, paragraphs A, G and H by law enforcement officers or private persons must be made pursuant to the provisions of Title 17‑A, sections 15 and 16. For purposes of…

An arrest warrant for a juvenile must be issued in the manner provided by Rule 4 of the Maine Rules of Unified Criminal Procedure, except that affidavits alone must be presented and a petition is not necessary. Following arrest, the juvenile is subject to the procedures specified…

1. Notification of a juvenile community corrections officer. A juvenile community corrections officer receives notification under the following circumstances. A. When, in the judgment of a law enforcement officer, Juvenile Court proceedings should be commenced against a juvenile,…

Statements of a juvenile or of a juvenile's parents, guardian or legal custodian made to a juvenile community corrections officer during the course of a preliminary investigation are not admissible in evidence at an adjudicatory hearing against that juvenile if a petition based o…

1. Generally. A juvenile may not be committed to or detained or confined in a jail or other secure detention facility intended or primarily used for the detention of adults, except when bound over as an adult and as provided in section 3101, subsection 4, paragraph E‑2, or as pro…