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subsection, other than disclosure authorized by this
subsection, commits a Class E crime.

 
Violation of this subsection is a strict liability crime as
defined in Title 17-A, section 34, subsection 4-A.

 
Sec. P-5. 26 MRSA §1082, sub-§9-A, as amended by PL 1987, c. 641, §5,
is further amended to read:

 
9-A. Refusal to appear. Any A person who without just cause
fails or refuses to attend and testify or to answer any lawful
inquiry or to produce books, papers, correspondence, memoranda
and other records, if it is in that person's power to do so, in
obedience to a subpoena of the commissioner, the commission, the
Division of Administrative Hearings or the duly authorized
respresentative representative of any of them shall be guilty of
commits a Class E crime. This crime is a strict liability crime
as defined in Title 17-A, section 34, subsection 4-A. Whenever
If a person refuses to obey a subpoena duly issued by the
commissioner, the commission, the Division of Administrative
Hearings or the duly authorized representative of any of them,
any court of this State within the jurisdiction of which the
person resides or transacts business, shall have has jurisdiction
to issue to that person an order requiring the person to appear
and produce evidence or testimony, and any failure to obey that
order may be punished by the court as contempt of court.

 
Sec. P-6. 26 MRSA §1420-C, as enacted by PL 1995, c. 560, Pt. F,
§13, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:

 
§1420-C. Penalty

 
1.__Interference with admittance or enjoyment; rights.__A
person or the person's agent may not:

 
A.__Deny or interfere with admittance to or enjoyment of the
public facilities described in section 1420-A; or

 
B.__Otherwise interfere with the rights of a deaf or hard-
of-hearing person under section 1420-A.

 
2.__Penalty.__Violation of this section is a Class E crime.__
Violation of this section is a strict liability crime as defined
in Title 17-A, section 34, subsection 4-A.

 
Sec. P-7. 26 MRSA §1420-D is enacted to read:

 
§1420-D.__Misrepresentation of hearing dog


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