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§3775
Title 30-A: MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES
Part 2: MUNICIPALITIES
Subpart 6: REGULATION, LICENSES AND PERMITS
Chapter 183: ECONOMIC REGULATION
Subchapter 1-A: SCRAP METAL PROCESSORS
§3776

§3775-A. Holding period; inspection

1.  Seven-day hold.  If a law enforcement officer has a reasonable suspicion that scrap metal being held by a scrap metal processor is stolen or related to criminal activity, the officer may issue a written order to the scrap metal processor, specifying the scrap metal that must be retained and the length of time, which may not exceed 7 days, that the scrap metal processor must retain the identified scrap metal.  
[PL 2011, c. 545, §8 (NEW).]
2.  Additional 7-day hold.  Prior to the expiration of the time period of the hold pursuant to subsection 1, a law enforcement officer may impose an additional hold period, which may not exceed 7 days. The law enforcement officer imposing the additional hold shall provide the scrap metal processor with a written description of the scrap metal to be retained and the length of time the scrap metal processor must retain the identified scrap metal.  
[PL 2011, c. 545, §8 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 2011, c. 545, §8 (NEW).
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