Public Laws

123rd Legislature

Second Regular Session


Parts: A B C D E F G H

Chapter 684

H.P. 360 - L.D. 461

PART C

Sec. C-1. 15 MRSA §5821, sub-§8,  as enacted by PL 1989, c. 302, §3, is repealed.

Sec. C-2. 15 MRSA §5821, sub-§9  is enacted to read:

9.  Assets in human trafficking offenses.   All assets, including money instruments, personal property and real property, used or intended for use in or traceable to a human trafficking offense as defined in Title 5, section 4701, subsection 1, paragraph C.

Sec. C-3. 15 MRSA §5821,   as amended by PL 2003, c. 688, Pt. B, §2, is further amended by adding at the end a new paragraph to read:

A forfeiture under this section of property encumbered by a perfected bona fide security interest is subject to the interest of the secured party if the party neither had knowledge of nor consented to the act or omission upon which the right of forfeiture is based.

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