2005 Maine Code - §3501 — Application of chapter

    This chapter shall apply to all personal property of which possession is transferred to a police department or other law enforcement agency of the State or any political subdivision thereof, under circumstances supporting a reasonable belief that such property was abandoned, lost or stolen, or otherwise illegally possessed, except property seized during search and retained and ultimately returned, destroyed or otherwise disposed of pursuant to a court order or some other law hereafter applicable to specific property or circumstance. This chapter shall apply to personal property seized during search and retained which is not offered or admitted as evidence and which, after retention by a police department or other law enforcement agency, becomes abandoned. [1983, c. 254, § 1 (amd).]