Maine legal term
Authority in Maine Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Maine legislative session
In Maine criminal law, “Authority” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Maine criminal code.
What does “Authority” mean in Maine criminal law?
"Authority" means the commissioner or a state veterinarian, humane agent, sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, police officer, person authorized to make arrests or animal control officer that seizes or impounds an animal pursuant to section 1021. 2. (17 M.R.S. § 1027)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Bail commissioners
- Criminal restraint by parent
- Criminal use of electronic weapon
- Criminal use of explosives
- Falsely filing a recordable instrument
- Gross sexual assault
- Kidnapping
- Misuse of scanning device or reencoder
- Possession of armor-piercing ammunition
- Possession of firearms in an establishment licensed for on-premises consumption of liquor
- Possession of firearms prohibited for certain persons
- Possession of machine gun
Related terms in the same statutes
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