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§351
Title 17: CRIMES
Chapter 17: BLACKLISTING
§451

§401. Violations; penalty

1.  Preventing employment.  An employer, employee or other person, by threats of injury, intimidation or force, alone or in combination with others, may not prevent a person from entering into, continuing in or leaving the employment of any person, firm or corporation.  
[PL 2003, c. 452, Pt. I, §12 (NEW); PL 2003, c. 452, Pt. X, §2 (AFF).]
2.  Maintaining blacklist.  An employer, agent of an employer or other person, alone or in combination with others, may not attempt to prevent a wage earner in any industry from obtaining employment at that wage earner's trade by maintaining or being a party to the maintaining of a blacklist.  
[PL 2003, c. 452, Pt. I, §12 (NEW); PL 2003, c. 452, Pt. X, §2 (AFF).]
3.  Penalty.  A person who violates this section commits a Class D crime. Violation of this section is a strict liability crime as defined in Title 17‑A, section 34, subsection 4‑A.  
[PL 2003, c. 452, Pt. I, §12 (NEW); PL 2003, c. 452, Pt. X, §2 (AFF).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 2003, c. 452, §I12 (RPR). PL 2003, c. 452, §X2 (AFF).
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