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Title 30, Chapter 1: COUNTY OFFICERS

Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS

30 §1. Expense accounts to be under oath (REPEALED) 
30 §2. Salaries (REPEALED) 
30 §3. -- increases (REPEALED) 
30 §4. Fees; Kennebec County (REPEALED) 
30 §5. -- Penobscot County (REPEALED) 
30 §6. -- Waldo County (REPEALED) 
30 §7. Transition period (REPEALED) 
30 §8. Mandatory retirement age prohibited (REPEALED) 

Subchapter 2: COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

Article 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS

30 §51. Incompatible offices (REPEALED) 
30 §52. Commissioner not to be agent to spend money (REPEALED) 
30 §53. Payment of costs on change of venue in criminal cases (REPEALED) 
30 §54. Warrants of distress; actions (REPEALED) 
30 §55. Services in condemnation cases (REPEALED) 
30 §56. Execution of process (REPEALED) 
30 §57. Saturday closing (REPEALED) 
30 §58. County offices of Androscoggin County (REPEALED) 
30 §59. Penalty (REPEALED) 
30 §61. Administrative assistant (REPEALED) 
30 §63. Powers to provide services under contract (REPEALED) 
30 §64. Personnel records (REPEALED) 
30 §64-A. Employment and dismissal of county employees (REPEALED) 
30 §65. Charges and rents (REPEALED) 
30 §66. County commissioners' authority (REPEALED) 
30 §67. Civil violation (REPEALED) 

Article 2: ELECTION AND TENURE

30 §101. Board membership; chairman (REPEALED) 
30 §101-A. Municipal school budget (REPEALED) 
30 §102. Vacancies; expiration of term (REPEALED) 
30 §103. Other times (REPEALED) 
30 §104. Military or naval service; substitutes (REPEALED) 
30 §105. Mode of election (REPEALED) 
30 §105-A. Creation of Aroostook County Commissioner Districts (REPEALED) 
30 §105-B. Creation of Waldo County Commissioner Districts (REPEALED) 
30 §105-C. Creation of Somerset County Commissioner Districts (REPEALED) 
30 §105-D. Creation of Hancock County Commissioner Districts (REPEALED) 
30 §105-E. Creation of Piscataquis County Commissioner Districts (REPEALED) 
30 §105-F. Creation of Sagadahoc County Commissioner Districts (REPEALED) 
30 §105-I. Creation of Androscoggin County Commissioner Districts (REPEALED) 
30 §105-J. Creation of Oxford County Commissioner Districts (REPEALED) 
30 §105-O. Creation of York County Commissioner Districts (REPEALED) 
30 §105-P. Creation of Penobscot County Commissioner Districts (REPEALED) 
30 §105-Q. Creation of Kennebec County Commissioner Districts (REPEALED) 
30 §105-R. Creation of Cumberland County Commissioner Districts (REPEALED) 
30 §105-S. Creation of Lincoln County Commissioner Districts (REPEALED) 
30 §105-T. Creation of Knox County Commissioner Districts (REPEALED) 
30 §105-U. Creation of Franklin County Commissioner Districts (REPEALED) 
30 §105-V. Apportionment of county commissioner districts (REPEALED) 
30 §105-W. County commissioner districts (REPEALED) 
30 §105-X. Residency and election of county commissioners (REPEALED) 
30 §106. Salaries (REPEALED) 

Article 3: SESSIONS

30 §151. Sessions; times; places; notice (REPEALED) 
30 §152. Quorum (REPEALED) 

Article 4: CLERK

30 §201. Designation; powers and duties; records (REPEALED) 
30 §202. County Administrator (REPEALED) 
30 §202-A. Aroostook County (REPEALED) 
30 §202-B. York County (REPEALED) 

Article 5: ASSESSMENT OF TAXES

30 §251. Duties (REPEALED) 
30 §252. Annual estimates for county taxes; penalty (REPEALED) 
30 §252-A. Alternative fiscal year (REPEALED) 
30 §253. Estimates recorded and sent to Secretary of State (REPEALED) 
30 §253-A. Specific line categories (REPEALED) 
30 §253-B. Certain grants to be paid on a quarterly basis (REPEALED) 
30 §253-C. Action on federal funds when Legislature not in session (REPEALED) 
30 §254. Apportionment of county tax; warrants (REPEALED) 
30 §254-A. Temporary extension (REPEALED) 
30 §254-B. Temporary extension (REPEALED) 
30 §255. Acceptance of state and federal grants (REPEALED) 

Article 6: BUILDINGS AND PROPERTY

30 §301. Courtrooms; jails; keeping of records (REPEALED) 
30 §302. Removal of county buildings; vote (REPEALED) 
30 §303. Inventory of property (REPEALED) 
30 §304. Bids, awards and contracts (REPEALED) 

Article 6-A: RECORDS

30 §344. Short title (REPEALED) 
30 §345. Definitions (REPEALED) 
30 §346. General requirements (REPEALED) 
30 §347. County Records Board (REPEALED) 
30 §348. Powers and duties of board (REPEALED) 
30 §349. Assistance to counties (REPEALED) 
30 §350. Violation (REPEALED) 

Article 7: RECORDS

30 §351. Copies of records (REPEALED) 
30 §352. Destruction of county records (REPEALED) 

Article 8: FINANCES

30 §401. County audit (REPEALED) 
30 §401-A. Anticipatory borrowing (REPEALED) 
30 §402. Androscoggin County contingent account (REPEALED) 
30 §403. Capital reserve accounts (REPEALED) 
30 §403-A. Unorganized territory accounts and interest (REPEALED) 
30 §404. Loans (REPEALED) 
30 §405. -- Franklin County (REPEALED) 
30 §406. -- Washington County (REPEALED) 
30 §407. -- Temporary (REPEALED) 
30 §408. Surplus funds (REPEALED) 
30 §409. Bonds (REPEALED) 
30 §410. Property taken for debt due from county (REPEALED) 
30 §411. Annual report (REPEALED) 
30 §412. Androscoggin County -- child and family mental health services (REPEALED) 
30 §412-A. Piscataquis County -- child and family services (REPEALED) 
30 §413. Authority to operate a regional solid waste collection and disposal service (REPEALED) 
30 §414. Towns and others served (REPEALED) 
30 §415. Fees to towns and unorganized territories (REPEALED) 
30 §416. Food stamp or donated food program (REPEALED) 
30 §417. Piscataquis County; solid waste (REPEALED) 
30 §418. Amount of assessments determined (REPEALED) 
30 §419. Priority social services programs (REPEALED) 
30 §420. Priority social services programs (REPEALED) 
30 §421. Powers and duties of the Kennebec and Somerset County commissioners (REPEALED) 
30 §422. Municipalities and others served (REPEALED) 
30 §423. Fees from municipalities (REPEALED) 
30 §424. Expending funds at County Jail and Recreation Center; Cumberland County (REPEALED) 
30 §425. Kennebec County Commissioners to contract for fire protection services; Unity Township (REPEALED) 
30 §426. Ambulance service in the plantations and unorganized territories of Piscataquis County (REPEALED) 
30 §427. Reimbursement for travel involved in criminal cases (REPEALED) 
30 §428. Authority to contract for energy conservation improvements (REPEALED) 

Subchapter 3: DISTRICT ATTORNEYS

Article 1: ELECTION AND TENURE

30 §451. Election; vacancies (REPEALED) 
30 §452. Military or naval service; substitutes (REPEALED) 
30 §453. Salaries (REPEALED) 
30 §454. Full-time district attorneys (REPEALED) 
30 §455. Removal from office (REPEALED) 

Article 2: DUTIES

30 §501. Civil proceedings; compensation (REPEALED) 
30 §502. Criminal proceedings (REPEALED) 
30 §503. Dismissal of civil cases (REPEALED) 
30 §504. Collection of fines and costs; examination of sheriff's bond (REPEALED) 
30 §505. Annual report to Attorney General (REPEALED) 
30 §506. Restrictions and obligations (REPEALED) 
30 §507. Physical examination of crime victims (REPEALED) 
30 §508. Disclosure of minor victims of sexual offenses (REPEALED) 
30 §509. Investigation of child abuse cases (REPEALED) 

Article 3: ASSISTANTS AND SUBSTITUTES

30 §551. Appointment of temporary substitutes (REPEALED) 
30 §552. Appointment of substitute on death or removal (REPEALED) 
30 §553. Assistant county attorneys; duties; term; Cumberland County (REPEALED) 
30 §553-A. Prosecutorial districts (REPEALED) 
30 §553-B. District attorney salaries (REPEALED) 
30 §554. -- Androscoggin County (REPEALED) 
30 §554-A. Assistant district attorneys (REPEALED) 
30 §555. -- Penobscot County (REPEALED) 
30 §555-A. District attorney operations (REPEALED) 
30 §556. -- Kennebec County (REPEALED) 
30 §557. -- Aroostook County (REPEALED) 
30 §558. -- York County (REPEALED) 
30 §559. -- Oxford County (REPEALED) 
30 §560. -- Somerset County (REPEALED) 
30 §561. -- Hancock County (REPEALED) 
30 §562. -- Washington County (REPEALED) 

Subchapter 4: COUNTY TREASURERS

Article 1: ELECTION AND TENURE

30 §601. Election; vacancy (REPEALED) 
30 §601-A. Penobscot County; treasurer (REPEALED) 
30 §601-B. Aroostook County; treasurer (REPEALED) 
30 §602. Notice; election; county commissioners (REPEALED) 
30 §603. Bond and tenure of office (REPEALED) 
30 §604. Salaries (REPEALED) 
30 §605. Androscoggin County treasurer to be full time (REPEALED) 
30 §606. Creation of position of appointed county treasurer (REPEALED) 
30 §607. Term; qualification; compensation of appointed treasurer (REPEALED) 

Article 2: DEPUTIES

30 §651. Appointment; duties (REPEALED) 
30 §651-A. Provisional treasurer (REPEALED) 

Article 3: DUTIES GENERALLY

30 §701. Deposit or investment of county funds (REPEALED) 
30 §702. Receipt of costs in favor of State (REPEALED) 
30 §703. Annual statement of financial standing (REPEALED) 
30 §704. Payments out of treasury (REPEALED) 

Article 4: RECORDS AND ACCOUNTS

30 §751. Accounts; enforcing payment of taxes (REPEALED) 
30 §752. Record of fines and bills of costs (REPEALED) 
30 §753. Treasurer's account with county estimate (REPEALED) 
30 §754. Annual account to county commissioners (REPEALED) 
30 §755. Account of federal money for use of jails (REPEALED) 
30 §756. Collection of accounts due counties (REPEALED) 

Subchapter 5: CLERKS

30 §801. Funds available (REPEALED) 

Subchapter 6: SHERIFFS AND OFFICERS

Article 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS

30 §851. Pension for dependents (REPEALED) 
30 §852. Officer not to act as attorney or draw papers; employee of jailer not to act as judge or attorney (REPEALED) 
30 §853. Definitions (REPEALED) 

Article 2: ELECTION AND TENURE; BOND

30 §901. Election or appointment; bond (REPEALED) 
30 §902. Approval of bond; delivery to State Auditor (REPEALED) 
30 §903. Annual examination of bonds (REPEALED) 
30 §904. New bond where insufficient (REPEALED) 
30 §905. Forfeiture for neglect to give bond (REPEALED) 
30 §906. Governor may require new bond (REPEALED) 
30 §907. New bonds required on application of sureties (REPEALED) 
30 §908. Salaries (REPEALED) 
30 §909. County sheriff to be full time (REPEALED) 

Article 3: DEPUTIES

30 §951. Deputies; appointments and removal (REPEALED) 
30 §952. Special deputies; duties (REPEALED) 
30 §953. Deputies; uniforms (REPEALED) 
30 §954. Chief deputy (REPEALED) 
30 §955. Chief deputy, deputies, bond; approval and filing (REPEALED) 
30 §956. -- powers during vacancy in sheriff's office (REPEALED) 
30 §957. Powers of other deputies during vacancy (REPEALED) 
30 §958. Full-time or part-time deputies; special deputies; compensation (REPEALED) 
30 §959. Political activities (REPEALED) 

Article 4: DUTIES

30 §1001. County law enforcement administration (REPEALED) 
30 §1002. Aid required by officer; refusal (REPEALED) 
30 §1003. Officer to pay money collected (REPEALED) 
30 §1004. Arrest in other counties (REPEALED) 

Article 5: FEES

30 §1051. Fees (REPEALED) 
30 §1052. Fees from deputies (REPEALED) 
30 §1053. Collection and accounting for fees (REPEALED) 
30 §1054. Disposal of fees collected from other counties (REPEALED) 

Article 6: ACTIONS AGAINST SHERIFFS

30 §1101. Persons injured sue on sheriff's bond; indorsement of writ; costs; judgment (REPEALED) 
30 §1102. Actions on sheriff's bond; proceedings (REPEALED) 
30 §1103. Service; right of person filing complaint; answer (REPEALED) 
30 §1104. Damages assessed on rendition of judgment; issue of executions (REPEALED) 
30 §1105. Exemption from arrest in civil action; proceedings on failure to pay execution; office vacated (REPEALED) 
30 §1106. Copy of bond available; evidence (REPEALED) 
30 §1107. Survival of actions against sheriff or deputy (REPEALED) 

Article 7: REMOVAL OF SHERIFF

30 §1111. Removal of sheriff (REPEALED) 

Article 8: COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT FUNCTIONS

30 §1121. Definitions (REPEALED) 
30 §1122. Patrol (REPEALED) 
30 §1123. Communications centers (REPEALED) 
30 §1123-A. Public safety answering point (REPEALED) 
30 §1124. Detention (REPEALED) 
30 §1125. Investigation, intelligence or laboratory services (REPEALED) 
30 §1126. Rescue services (REPEALED) 
30 §1127. Ambulance service (REPEALED) 
30 §1128. Juvenile services (REPEALED) 
30 §1129. Administrative services (REPEALED) 
30 §1130. Victim and witness support (REPEALED) 

Article 9: PARKING ENFORCEMENT SPECIALISTS

30 §1130-A. Volunteer parking enforcement programs (REPEALED) 
30 §1130-B. Training and examination (REPEALED) 
30 §1130-C. Municipal volunteer parking enforcement program (REPEALED) 

Subchapter 7: COUNTY PERSONNEL BOARD

30 §1131. Establishment (REPEALED) 
30 §1132. Membership, term and compensation (REPEALED) 
30 §1133. Powers and duties (REPEALED) 
30 §1134. Director; qualifications; tenure; compensation; powers and duties (REPEALED) 
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