| | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | | Sec. 1. 25 MRSA §2002, sub-§9, ķA, as amended by PL 1993, c. 524, §2, | | is repealed and the following enacted in its place: |
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| | | A.__To a legal resident of a municipality: |
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| | | (1)__The mayor and municipal officers or councilors of | | a city, the municipal officers or councilors of a town | | or the assessors of a plantation or, if they so choose, | | their full-time chief of police as their designee or | | the Chief of the State Police as the designee of the | | municipal officers under section 2002-A; or |
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| | | (2)__The Chief of the State Police. |
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| | | If the municipal officers have not designated the Chief of | | the State Police as their designee pursuant to section 2002- | | A, then the resident may choose either the municipal | | officers or the Chief of the State Police as the issuing | | authority; |
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| | | Current law allows a resident of a municipality to apply for a | | concealed firearms permit to the Chief of the State Police only | | if the chief has been designated by the municipality as the | | issuing authority. This bill allows a resident of a municipality | | to apply to either the municipal officers, if the municipal | | officers issue concealed firearms permits, or the Chief of the | | State Police, at the preference of the resident. |
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