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2021 Maine Revised Statutes
TITLE 38: WATERS AND NAVIGATION
Chapter 7: FLOATING TIMBER
38 §974. Right of owner to search for lost logs

Universal Citation:
38 ME Rev Stat § 974 (2021)
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§974. Right of owner to search for lost logs

The owner of such logs, masts or spars may at any time, by himself or his agent, enter in a peaceable manner upon any mill, mill-brow, boom or raft of logs or other timber in search of such lost property. Whoever willfully prevents or obstructs such search forfeits for each offense not less than $20 nor more than $50, to the person by whom or on whose account such entry was claimed, to be recovered in a civil action.  

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