Title 30-A

A reasonable opportunity for public comment must be provided on matters addressed by the municipal governing body at any regularly scheduled public meeting of the municipal officers. This section does not apply to a subcommittee meeting of a municipal governing body. This section…

1. Applicable laws. The form of government provided in this subchapter shall be known as the "town manager plan" and, together with general law not inconsistent, shall govern any town in which the voters have adopted this plan at a meeting held at least 90 days before the annual …

1. Selection by board; professional qualification. The select board shall choose the town manager solely on the basis of executive and administrative qualifications with special reference to actual experience in, or knowledge of, the duties of office under this subchapter. 2. Res…

1. Term. The town manager shall hold office for an indefinite term unless otherwise specified by contract. 2. Compensation. The select board shall determine the compensation of the town manager. 3. Removal, suspension. The select board may remove or suspend the town manager for c…

The town manager may designate a qualified administrative official of the town to perform the manager's duties during a temporary absence or disability, subject to confirmation by the select board. If the town manager does not make this designation, the select board may appoint a…

It is the intention of this subchapter that the select board as a body shall exercise all administrative and executive powers of the town except as provided in this subchapter. The select board shall deal with the administrative services solely through the town manager and may no…

The town manager: [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. Executive and administrative officer. Is the chief executive and administrative official of the town; …

The select board, by resolve, may provide for the orderly transition of the town government. These resolves may not infringe upon the rights of any official or employee of the town and may not be inconsistent with this subchapter.

1. Agreement. Any 2 or more towns may enter into an agreement, not inconsistent with this subchapter, to employ and share a manager. 2. Selection of manager. The select boards of the contracting towns shall act as a joint board for the purposes of selecting and removing for cause…

All municipalities operating under the repealed Title 30, chapter 213, subchapter II are deemed to have made the adoption under section 2631, subsection 1, as of October 1, 1969.

A municipality may require its clerk to be bonded according to section 5601, before assuming the duties of office.

Except as provided in Title 11 and this section, the clerk shall charge for services according to the following fee schedule: [PL 1997, c. 32, §1 (AMD).] 1. Recording; general. Recording the following: A. Administration of an oath, $1; (1) The municipality shall pay this fee; [PL…

Each municipality shall pay the reasonable expenses of its clerk and deputy clerk incurred in attending the annual meetings of the Maine Municipal Association and the Maine Town and City Clerks' Association.

The clerk may appoint in writing one or more assistants who shall perform any duties of the office prescribed by the clerk. [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).]…

A clerk is prohibited from commingling personal funds with any funds collected for a municipality while performing the duty of clerk.

1. Appointment. Except as provided by charter, ordinance or section 2636, subsection 6, the municipal officers may appoint police officers for a definite term, and control and fix their compensation. Police officers, including chiefs of police, may be removed for cause after noti…

Special police officers of limited jurisdiction may be appointed for a term of not more than one year and as provided in section 2671, subsection 1. These officers have all the powers of a police officer, except as specifically provided by charter, ordinance or the certificate of…

Constables shall be appointed in the same manner and with the same effect as special police officers under section 2672. Persons injured by the neglect or misdoings of a constable have the same remedy by preliminary action and action of the constable's bond, as in the case of a s…

Except as otherwise provided by municipal charter or ordinance, the municipal officers may authorize the chief of police or other designee to request other municipalities to provide law enforcement officers to assist the requesting municipality. The county commissioners may autho…

No municipal police officer, special police officer, constable or other municipal law enforcement officer may wear or display a uniform or badge that identifies the officer as a public law enforcement officer at the site of a labor dispute, strike or lockout, except while on acti…

A duly authorized police officer of a neighboring state may exercise all statutory authority under section 2671 within this State, provided that the chief law enforcement officer of the requesting municipality has executed with the chief law enforcement officer of the responding …

Notwithstanding section 2671, a municipality shall keep a retired municipal employee formerly employed by the municipality in that municipality's health care plan as long as the retired employee continues to pay the health insurance group rate premiums required for that retired e…

When a person in custody dies, an examination and inquest must be held, and the chief of police shall cause a medical examiner to be immediately notified for that purpose pursuant to Title 22, section 3025. For purposes of this section, "custody" means custody pursuant to an arre…

This section governs all boards of appeals established after September 23, 1971. [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. Establishment. A municipality may estab…

Except as specifically provided otherwise by charter or ordinance, any reference to cause and hearing in this Part only applies to an employee who has completed a reasonable probation period established by the municipality. Periods of probation may not exceed 6 calendar months or…

1. Confidential records. The following records are confidential and not open to public inspection. They are not "public records" as defined in Title 1, section 402, subsection 3. These records include: A. Except as provided in this paragraph, applications, resumes, letters and no…

A municipality may not enact any ordinance which requires employees to reside within the boundaries of the municipality as a condition of employment, nor may collective bargaining agreements contain these strict requirements. A municipality may negotiate collective bargaining agr…

1. Legislative findings and intent. The legislative findings and intent for this section are the same as the findings and intent specified in Title 5, section 4575, subsection 1. 2. Prohibition. A municipality may not enact any ordinance or adopt any regulation which requires a m…

In order to participate in specialized disaster relief services for the American Red Cross, a municipal employee who is a certified disaster service volunteer of the American Red Cross, upon the request of the American Red Cross and with the approval of the legislative body of th…

The officers of each municipality shall publish annually a complete report subject to the following provisions. [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. Record o…

A municipal official who has been sworn to the faithful performance of the official's duty need not swear to any report, account or statement to be filed with any of the state departments.

If a municipality, acting through its board of municipal officers, formally advises the municipal officers of one or more adjoining municipalities that there is a dispute regarding the location of the boundary or boundaries between the municipality and its adjoining municipalitie…

When a controversy over a boundary line exists between adjoining municipalities, either may file a complaint with the Superior Court stating the facts and requesting that the line be run. [PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. C, §106 (NEW); PL 1989, c. 6 (AMD); …

1. Decoration of veterans' graves. Each municipality, as directed by its municipal officers, annually shall decorate on the day Memorial Day is observed the graves of veterans of the Armed Forces of the United States of America with an American flag and appropriate flag holders. …

The week beginning with the 2nd Sunday in August of each year, or any other week designated by the municipality's legislative body, is designated and set apart as Old Home Week.

All fences 4 feet high and in good repair, consisting of rails, timber, stone walls, iron or wire, and brooks, rivers, ponds, creeks, ditches and hedges, or other things which in the judgment of the fence viewers having jurisdiction thereof are equivalent thereto, are legal and s…

The occupants of lands enclosed with fences shall maintain partition fences between their own and the adjoining enclosures, in equal shares, while both parties continue to improve them.

If any party neglects or refuses to repair or rebuild any such fence that that party is legally required to maintain, the aggrieved party may complain to 2 or more fence viewers of the town where the land is situated who, after due notice to the delinquent party, shall proceed to…

When the complainant has completed such fence and, after notice given, it has been adjudged sufficient by 2 or more of the fence viewers, and the value thereof, with the fence viewers' fees, certified under their hands, the complainant may demand of the occupant or owner of the l…

When the occupants or owners of adjacent lands disagree respecting their rights in partition fences and their obligation to maintain them, on application of either party, 2 or more fence viewers of the town where the lands lie, after reasonable notice to each party, may in writin…

If any party refuses or neglects to build and maintain the part thus assigned to that party, it may be done by the aggrieved party who is entitled to double the value and expenses, to be ascertained and recovered as provided in section 2954, and shall have a lien therefor on the …

All division fences shall be kept in good repair throughout the year, unless the occupants of adjacent lands otherwise agree.

When, in the opinion of the fence viewers having jurisdiction of the case, it is, by reason of natural impediments, impracticable or unreasonably expensive to build a fence on the true line between adjacent lands and the occupants disagree respecting its position, on application …

When adjacent lands have been occupied in common without a partition fence and either party desires to occupy in severalty or when it is necessary to make a fence running into the water and the parties liable to build and maintain it disagree, either party may apply to the fence …

When one party ceases to improve that party's land or lays open that party's enclosure, that party shall not take away any part of that party's partition fence adjoining the next enclosure improved if the owner or occupant thereof will pay therefor what 2 or more fence viewers, o…

When any land which has been unenclosed is afterwards enclosed or used for pasturing, its occupant or owner shall pay for 1/2 of each partition fence on the line between that occupant's or owner's land and the enclosure of any other occupant or owner and its value shall be ascert…