Maine § 17-A §507-B Illegal possession or sale of gravestones

Maine Statutes

§ 17-A §507-B — Illegal possession or sale of gravestones

Maine § 17-A §507-B

Title 17-AMAINE CRIMINAL CODE

Part 2SUBSTANTIVE OFFENSES

Ch. 21OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER

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Bluebook

Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 17-A, § 17-A §507-B (2026).

Text

1.No person may possess, sell, attempt to sell, offer for sale, transfer or dispose of any tomb, monument, gravestone, marker or other structure placed or designed as a memorial for the dead, or any portion or fragment of any such memorial, knowing or having reasonable cause to know that it has been illegally removed from a cemetery or burial ground.

2.Any person who violates subsection 1 commits a Class C crime.

3.Any person who violates subsection 1 is liable to the following for triple damages to be recovered in a civil action:

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No person may possess, sell, attempt to sell, offer for sale, transfer or dispose of any tomb, monument, gravestone, marker or other structure placed or designed as a memorial for the dead, or any portion or fragment of any such memorial, knowing or having reasonable cause to know that it has been illegally removed from a cemetery or burial ground.
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Any person who violates subsection 1 commits a Class C crime.
3.
Any person who violates subsection 1 is liable to the following for triple damages to be recovered in a civil action: