2019 Maine Revised Statutes
TITLE 21-A: ELECTIONS
Chapter 11: BALLOT QUESTIONS
21-A §904. Violations and penalties

§904. Violations and penalties

A person commits a Class E crime if that person:   [PL 2007, c. 455, §53 (RPR).]

1.  False swearing; signature.  Circulates an initiative or referendum petition and swears that a signature is that of a person whose name it purports to be when the circulator knows that the signature is not that of the person;  

[PL 2007, c. 455, §53 (RPR).]

2.  False acknowledgement of oath.  Is authorized by law to administer oaths and willfully and falsely acknowledges the oath of a circulator of an initiative or referendum petition when that oath was not made in the presence of that person;  

[PL 2007, c. 455, §53 (RPR).]

3.  False signature.  Knowingly signs an initiative or referendum petition with a name other than the person's own name;  

[PL 2007, c. 455, §53 (RPR).]

4.  Duplicate signature.  Knowingly signs the person's name more than once on initiative or referendum petitions for the same measure;  

[PL 2019, c. 456, §3 (AMD).]

5.  False swearing; signature made in circulator's presence.  Circulates an initiative or referendum petition and willfully swears that a signature to the petition was made in the circulator's presence when it was not; or  

[PL 2019, c. 456, §4 (AMD).]

6.  Failure to truthfully execute and file circulator affidavit.  Knowingly fails to truthfully execute and timely file a circulator affidavit under section 903‑A, subsection 4.  

[PL 2019, c. 456, §5 (NEW).]

SECTION HISTORY

PL 1985, c. 161, §6 (NEW). PL 2007, c. 455, §53 (RPR). PL 2019, c. 456, §§3-5 (AMD).