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17 ME Rev Stat § 2704 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS|17 §2704. Expenses of abatement defrayed; poor debtor's oath

 §2704. Expenses of abatement defrayed; poor debtor's oath The expense of abating a nuisance by virtue of a warrant shall be collected by the officer as damages and costs are collected on execution; except that the materials of buildings, fences or other things removed as a nuisance may be first levied upon and sold by the officer, and the proceeds, if any remain after paying the expense of removal, shall be paid by him, on demand, to the defendant or the owner of such property. If said proceeds are not sufficient to satisfy the expenses, the officer shall collect the residue as aforesaid. A person committed to jail on such warrant may avail himself of the poor debtor's oath, as if he had been committed on execution. If said expense cannot be collected of the defendant, it shall be paid as costs in criminal prosecutions.
17 ME Rev Stat § 2705 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS|17 §2705. Jurisdiction by injunction

 §2705. Jurisdiction by injunction Any court of record before which an indictment, complaint or action for a nuisance is pending may, in any county, issue an injunction to stay or prevent such nuisance, and make such orders and decrees for enforcing or dissolving it as justice and equity require.
17 ME Rev Stat § 2706 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS|17 §2706. Penalty and abatement of nuisance

 §2706. Penalty and abatement of nuisance Whoever erects, causes or continues a public or common nuisance, as herein described or at common law, where no other punishment is specially provided, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100. The court with or without such fine may order such nuisance to be discontinued or abated, and issue a warrant therefor as provided.
17 ME Rev Stat § 2742 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 2: COMMON NUISANCES|17 §2742. -- penalties (REPEALED)

 §2742. -- penalties (REPEALED)SECTION HISTORY PL 1991, c. 797, §4 (AMD). PL 1995, c. 66, §3 (AMD). PL 2003, c. 452, §I46 (RP). PL 2003, c. 452, §X2 (AFF).
17 ME Rev Stat § 2743 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 2: COMMON NUISANCES|17 §2743. Lease void; remedy of owner

 §2743. Lease void; remedy of owner If any tenant or occupant, under any lawful title, of any building or tenement not owned by the tenant or occupant uses the building or tenement or any part of the building or tenement for any purpose named in section 2741, the tenant or occupant forfeits all rights to the building or tenement, and the owner of the building or tenement upon the commencement of an action under Title 14, chapter 709 may seek any remedy provided by chapter 709 or upon a declaration of a common nuisance by the Superior Court upon the filing of information by the Attorney General, the district attorney or a prosecuting attorney assigned pursuant to Title 25, section 2955 may make immediate entry and take possession without further process of law or as otherwise ordered by the Superior Court.   [PL 1995, c. 66, §4 (AMD).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1995, c. 66, §4 (AMD).
17 ME Rev Stat § 2744 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 2: COMMON NUISANCES|17 §2744. Liability of building owner (REPEALED)

 §2744. Liability of building owner (REPEALED)SECTION HISTORY PL 1991, c. 797, §4 (AMD). PL 1995, c. 66, §5 (RP).
17 ME Rev Stat § 2791 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 3: PARTICULAR NUISANCES|17 §2791. Blasting; notice

 §2791. Blasting; notice Persons engaged in blasting lime rock or other rocks shall before each explosion give seasonable notice thereof, so that all persons or teams approaching shall have time to retire to a safe distance from the place of said explosion. No such explosion shall be made after sunset.   Whoever violates any provision of this section forfeits to the prosecutor $5 for each offense, to be recovered in a civil action, and is liable for all damages caused by any explosion. If the persons engaged in blasting rocks are unable to pay or, after judgment and execution, avoid payment of the fine, damages and costs by the poor debtor's oath, the owners of the quarry, in whose employment they were, are liable for the same.
17 ME Rev Stat § 2792 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 3: PARTICULAR NUISANCES|17 §2792. Burning of bricks (REPEALED)

 §2792. Burning of bricks (REPEALED)SECTION HISTORY PL 1997, c. 623, §3 (RP).
17 ME Rev Stat § 2793 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 3: PARTICULAR NUISANCES|17 §2793. Certain lights prohibited along highways

 §2793. Certain lights prohibited along highways No person shall place or maintain upon or in view of any highway any light so that its beams or rays are directed at any portion of a public street or highway when the light is of such brilliance and so positioned as to blind, dazzle or otherwise impair the vision of the driver of any motor vehicle upon said street or highway; or any rotating or flashing light or signal which imitates or simulates the flashing or rotating lights used on school buses, police, fire or highway vehicles, except safety signaling devices required by law. Whoever violates this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100.
17 ME Rev Stat § 2794 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 3: PARTICULAR NUISANCES|17 §2794. Dumping of oil

 §2794. Dumping of oil Oil, and a petroleum base, or materials containing significant quantities of such oil shall not be intentionally placed or deposited directly into or on banks of any river or stream, permanent or temporary, lake, pond or tidal waters or on the ice thereof where such material may fall or otherwise find its way into said watercourse or tidal waters, or shall such material be intentionally placed or deposited directly in pits, wells or on ground surfaces in such a manner that oil will percolate, seep or otherwise find access into ground waters or into wells used for the production of water.
17 ME Rev Stat § 2795 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 3: PARTICULAR NUISANCES|17 §2795. License for use of certain engines

 §2795. License for use of certain engines No stationary, internal combustion or steam engine shall be erected in a town until the municipal officers have granted license therefor, designating the place where the buildings therefor shall be erected, the materials and mode of construction, the size of the boiler and furnace, and such provision as to height of chimney or flues, and protection against fire and explosion, as they judge proper for the safety of the neighborhood. Such license shall be granted on written application, recorded in the town records and a certified copy of it furnished, without charge, to the applicant.   When application is made for such license, said officers shall assign a time and place for its consideration, and give at least 14 days' public notice thereof, in such manner as they think proper, at the expense of the applicant. Any person aggrieved by the decision of the select boards of towns in granting or refusing such license may appeal therefrom within 30 days to the Superior Court held in said county, which court may appoint a committee of 3 disinterested persons, as is provided in relation to appeals from location of highways. Said committee must be sworn and shall give 14 days' notice of the time and place of their hearing to the parties interested, view the premises, hear the parties and affirm, reverse or annul the decision of said select board, and their decision is final. Pending such appeal from granting such license, the Superior Court may enjoin the erection of such building and engine.   [PL 2021, c. 275, §3 (AMD).]Any such engine erected without a license shall be deemed a common nuisance without other proof than its use.   Said officers shall have the same authority to abate and remove an engine, erected without license, as is given to the local health officer in Title 22, chapter 153.   SECTION HISTORY PL 2021, c. 275, §3 (AMD).
17 ME Rev Stat § 2796 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 3: PARTICULAR NUISANCES|17 §2796. Manufacture of powder

 §2796. Manufacture of powder If any person manufactures gunpowder, or mixes or grinds the composition therefor, in any building within 80 rods of any valuable building not owned by such person or his lessor, which was erected when such business was commenced, the former building shall be deemed a public nuisance; and such person may be prosecuted accordingly.
17 ME Rev Stat § 2797 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 3: PARTICULAR NUISANCES|17 §2797. Mills and dams; fences and buildings on public ways

 §2797. Mills and dams; fences and buildings on public ways The erection and maintenance of watermills and dams to raise water for working them upon or across streams not navigable as provided in Title 38, chapter 5, shall not be deemed a nuisance, unless they become offensive to the neighborhood, or injurious to the public health, or unless they occasion injuries or annoyances of a kind not authorized by said chapter. Fences and buildings fronting on public ways, commons or lands appropriated to public use shall not be deemed nuisances when erected for the times and in the manner provided in Title 23, section 2952, unless the owner of the same shall be estopped as therein provided from justifying his occupation within the limits of said way.
17 ME Rev Stat § 2798 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 3: PARTICULAR NUISANCES|17 §2798. Mufflers required on motorboats (REPEALED)

 §2798. Mufflers required on motorboats (REPEALED)SECTION HISTORY PL 1969, c. 123, §1 (RP).
17 ME Rev Stat § 2799 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 3: PARTICULAR NUISANCES|17 §2799. Possession of poisonous snakes

 §2799. Possession of poisonous snakes The possession of poisonous snakes shall be a public nuisance, except where poisonous snakes shall be continuously confined in such type of enclosure as may be determined to be escape proof.
17 ME Rev Stat § 2800 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 3: PARTICULAR NUISANCES|17 §2800. Removal of bushes, trees and stumps from flowed area

 §2800. Removal of bushes, trees and stumps from flowed area Whoever hereafter erects a dam on any of the public waters of this State shall, within 3 years after a head of water is held and flowage created thereby, remove from the flowed area all trees, bushes and stumps that he can legally remove therefrom, to such an extent that the tops of all trees, bushes and stumps left thereon shall be at least 5 feet below the surface of the mean low-water level maintained during the period beginning June 1st and ending December 1st next following of each year and shall within said 3-year period remove such growth as he can legally remove from the edge of the flowed area to such an extent that no dry-ki and debris shall form to be carried away by the water. For the purpose of protecting the right of the public in the navigation of the waters over said flowed area the owner of such dam shall, after the creation of flowage thereby, have the right to cut and remove from the flowed area all trees, bushes and stumps remaining thereon, and the damage to the owner thereof caused by such removal shall be ascertained in the same manner as is provided for the ascertainment of the damages caused by the flowage.   Any dam erected hereafter which is maintained in violation of this section shall constitute a public nuisance, and be subject to section 2706.   This section shall not apply to dams which are created solely for log driving purposes where the water is stored for not exceeding 3 months of each year, nor shall the same be interpreted in any instance to require the removal of stumps below the swell of the roots.
17 ME Rev Stat § 2801 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 3: PARTICULAR NUISANCES|17 §2801. Spite fences

 §2801. Spite fences Any fence or other structure in the nature of a fence, unnecessarily exceeding 6 feet in height, maliciously kept and maintained for the purpose of annoying the owners or occupants of adjoining property, shall be deemed a private nuisance.
17 ME Rev Stat § 2802 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 3: PARTICULAR NUISANCES|17 §2802. Miscellaneous nuisances

 §2802. Miscellaneous nuisances The erection, continuance or use of any building or place for the exercise of a trade, employment or manufacture that, by noxious exhalations, offensive smells or other annoyances, becomes injurious and dangerous to the health, comfort or property of individuals or of the public; causing or permitting abandoned wells or tin mining shafts to remain unfilled or uncovered to the injury or prejudice of others; causing or suffering any offal, filth or noisome substance to collect or to remain in any place to the prejudice of others; obstructing or impeding, without legal authority, the passage of any navigable river, harbor or collection of water; corrupting or rendering unwholesome or impure the water of a river, stream, pond or aquifer; imprudent operation of a watercraft as defined in Title 12, section 13068-A, subsection 8; unlawfully diverting the water of a river, stream, pond or aquifer from its natural course or state to the injury or prejudice of others; and the obstructing or encumbering by fences, buildings or otherwise of highways, private ways, streets, alleys, commons, common landing places or burying grounds are nuisances within the limitations and exceptions mentioned. Any places where one or more old, discarded, worn-out or junked motor vehicles as defined in Title 29-A, section 101, subsection 42, or parts thereof, are gathered together, kept, deposited or allowed to accumulate, in such manner or in such location or situation either within or without the limits of any highway, as to be unsightly, detracting from the natural scenery or injurious to the comfort and happiness of individuals and the public, and injurious to property rights, are public nuisances.   [PL 2005, c. 397, Pt. A, §11 (AMD).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1965, c. 78, §1 (AMD). PL 1971, c. 274 (AMD). PL 1979, c. 472, §3 (AMD). PL 1995, c. 65, §A53 (AMD). PL 1995, c. 65, §§A153,C15 (AFF). PL 1997, c. 540, §4 (AMD). PL 1997, c. 683, §A7 (AMD). RR 2003, c. 2, §24 (COR). PL 2005, c. 397, §A11 (AMD).
17 ME Rev Stat § 2803 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 3: PARTICULAR NUISANCES|17 §2803. -- assignment of place for

 §2803. -- assignment of place for The municipal officers of a town, when they judge it necessary, may assign places therein for the exercise of any trades, employments or manufactures described in section 2802, and may forbid their exercise in other places, under penalty of being deemed public or common nuisances and the liability to be dealt with as such. All such assignments shall be entered in the records of the town and may be revoked when said officers judge proper.
17 ME Rev Stat § 2804 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 3: PARTICULAR NUISANCES|17 §2804. -- complaints about

 §2804. -- complaints about When a place or building so assigned becomes a nuisance, offensive to the neighborhood or injurious to the public health, any person may complain thereof to the Superior Court and if, after notice to the party complained of, the truth of the complaint is admitted by default or made to appear to a jury on trial, the court may revoke such assignment and prohibit the further use of such place or building for such purposes, under a penalty of not more than $100 for each month's continuance after such prohibition, to the use of said town; and may order it to be abated and issue a warrant therefor, or stay it as provided; but if the jury acquit the defendant, he shall recover costs of the complainant.
17 ME Rev Stat § 2805 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 3: PARTICULAR NUISANCES|17 §2805. Farm, farm operation or agricultural composting operation not nuisance; use of best management practices (REPEALED)

 §2805. Farm, farm operation or agricultural composting operation not nuisance; use of best management practices (REPEALED)SECTION HISTORY PL 1981, c. 472 (NEW). PL 1991, c. 395, §§1-3 (AMD). PL 1993, c. 87, §1 (AMD). PL 1993, c. 124, §§3,4 (AMD). PL 1997, c. 642, §§4,5 (AMD). PL 1999, c. 723, §2 (AMD). PL 2003, c. 283, §6 (AMD). PL 2005, c. 638, §1 (AMD). PL 2007, c. 649, §7 (RP).
17 ME Rev Stat § 2806 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 3: PARTICULAR NUISANCES|17 §2806. Sport shooting ranges

 §2806. Sport shooting ranges 1.  Acquisition of property near existing range.  Except as provided in this subsection, a person may not maintain a nuisance action, including for noise, against a shooting range located in the vicinity of that person's property if the shooting range was established as of the date the person acquired the property. If there is a substantial change in use of the range after the person acquires the property, the person may maintain a nuisance action if the action is brought within 3 years from the beginning of the substantial change.   [PL 2015, c. 433, §1 (AMD).] 2.  Establishment of shooting range near existing property.  A person who owns property in the vicinity of a shooting range that was established after the person acquired the property may maintain a nuisance action, including for noise, against that shooting range only if the action is brought within 5 years after establishment of the range or 3 years after a substantial change in use of the range.   [PL 2015, c. 433, §1 (AMD).] 3.  Dormant shooting range.  If there has been no shooting activity at a range for a period of 3 years, resumption of shooting is considered establishment of a new shooting range for purposes of this section.   [PL 1995, c. 231, §1 (NEW).] 4.  Application.  This section does not limit nuisance actions against shooting ranges established on or after September 1, 2016.   [PL 2015, c. 433, §2 (AMD).] SECTION HISTORY PL 1995, c. 231, §1 (NEW). PL 2015, c. 433, §§1, 2 (AMD).
17 ME Rev Stat § 2807 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 3: PARTICULAR NUISANCES|17 §2807. Commercial fishing activities and commercial fishing operations

 §2807. Commercial fishing activities and commercial fishing operations 1.  Definitions.  As used in this section, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings.   A. "Commercial fishing activity" means an activity directly related to commercial fishing or a commercial activity commonly associated with or supportive of commercial fishing, such as the manufacture or sale of ice, bait, traps or nets or the manufacture, installation or repair of boats, engines or other equipment commonly used on boats or in facilities that involve the catching, transporting, buying, selling or processing of seafood for commercial purposes.   [PL 2001, c. 99, §1 (NEW).]B. "Commercial fishing operation" means a condition or activity that occurs in connection with the commercial harvesting, purchasing, selling or processing of seafood and includes noise, odors, operation of a vessel, operation of harvesting or processing equipment and transfer or storage of bait.   [PL 2001, c. 99, §1 (NEW).][PL 2001, c. 99, §1 (NEW).] 2.  Private nuisance actions limited.  A private nuisance action may not be maintained against a person engaged in a commercial fishing activity or commercial fishing operation so long as the activity or operation is undertaken in compliance with applicable licensing and permitting requirements and other applicable statutes, rules and ordinances.   [PL 2001, c. 99, §1 (NEW).] 3.  Finfish aquaculture exemption.  For purposes of this section, activities and conditions associated with licensed finfish aquaculture are not commercial fishing activities or commercial fishing operations.   [PL 2001, c. 99, §1 (NEW).] SECTION HISTORY PL 2001, c. 99, §1 (NEW).
17 ME Rev Stat § 2808 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 3: PARTICULAR NUISANCES|17 §2808. Alteration of surface water flow

 §2808. Alteration of surface water flow Unreasonable use of land that results in altered flow of surface water that unreasonably injures another's land or that unreasonably interferes with the reasonable use of another's land is a nuisance.   [PL 2005, c. 564, §1 (NEW); PL 2005, c. 564, §3 (AFF).]An action under this section must be commenced within 3 years after the cause of action accrues.   [PL 2005, c. 564, §1 (NEW); PL 2005, c. 564, §3 (AFF).]SECTION HISTORY PL 2005, c. 564, §1 (NEW). PL 2005, c. 564, §3 (AFF).
17 ME Rev Stat § 2852 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 4: DANGEROUS BUILDINGS|17 §2852. Appeal; hearing

 §2852. Appeal; hearing An appeal from a decision of the municipal officers or county commissioners under section 2851 or section 2856 must be to the Superior Court, pursuant to the provisions of the Maine Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 80B.   [PL 2017, c. 136, §2 (AMD).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1965, c. 284 (RPR). PL 1979, c. 27, §4 (RPR). PL 1997, c. 6, §2 (AMD). PL 2017, c. 136, §2 (AMD).
17 ME Rev Stat § 2853 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 4: DANGEROUS BUILDINGS|17 §2853. Recovery of expenses

 §2853. Recovery of expenses All expenses incurred by a municipality or county related to an order issued under section 2851, including, but not limited to, expenses relating to the abatement or removal of a building, must be repaid to the municipality or county by the owner within 30 days after demand, or a special tax may be assessed by the assessors against the land on which the building was located for the amount of the expenses and that amount must be included in the next annual warrant to the tax collector of the municipality or county for collection and must be collected in the same manner as other state, county and municipal taxes are collected.   [PL 2017, c. 136, §3 (AMD).]In the case of any claim for expenses incurred in the abatement or removal of any wharf, pier, pilings or any portion thereof that extends beyond the low water mark, the special tax authorized by this section must apply to the land from which the wharf, pier or pilings extended or to which they were adjacent, if the owner of the land is also the owner of the wharf, pier, pilings or portion thereof.   [PL 2017, c. 136, §3 (AMD).]Expenses include, but are not limited to, the costs of title searches, location reports, service or process, reasonable attorney's fees, costs of removal of the building, any costs incurred in securing the building pending its removal and all other costs incurred by the municipality or county that are reasonably related to the removal of the building. In addition to levying a special tax, the municipality or county may recover its expenses, including its reasonable attorney's fees, by means of a civil action brought against the owner.   [PL 2017, c. 136, §3 (AMD).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1965, c. 284 (RPR). PL 1967, c. 401, §2 (AMD). PL 1973, c. 143, §2 (AMD). PL 1977, c. 707, §§5-A (AMD). PL 1979, c. 27, §5 (AMD). PL 2017, c. 136, §3 (AMD).
17 ME Rev Stat § 2854 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 17: CRIMES|Chapter 91: NUISANCES|Subchapter 4: DANGEROUS BUILDINGS|17 §2854. Costs (REPEALED)

 §2854. Costs (REPEALED)SECTION HISTORY PL 1965, c. 284 (RP).