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| 19.__Recovery of costs.__In any action brought by the State to | enforce this section, the State is entitled to recover the costs of | investigation, expert witness fees, costs of the action and | reasonable attorney's fees. |
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| | 20.__Profits.__If a court determines that a person has | violated this section, the court shall order any profits, gain, | gross receipts or other benefit from the violation to be paid to | the Fund for a Healthy Maine.__Unless otherwise expressly | provided, the remedies or penalties provided by this section are | cumulative to each other and to the remedies or penalties | available under all other laws of this State. |
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| | 21.__Construction; severability.__If a court of competent | jurisdiction finds that the provisions of this section and of | subchapter 3 conflict, then the provisions of subchapter 3 | control.__If any portion of this section causes subchapter 3 to | no longer constitute a qualifying or model statute, as those | terms are defined in the Master Settlement Agreement, then that | portion of this section is not valid. |
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| | Sec. 2. 36 MRSA §4362-A, sub-§3, as amended by PL 2001, c. 526, §3, is | further amended to read: |
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| | 3. Expiration and reissuance. A distributor's license | expires one year from the 30th day of June next succeeding the | date of issuance unless sooner revoked by the assessor pursuant | to subsection 5 or unless the business with respect to which the | license was issued is sold, in either of which cases the holder | of the license shall immediately surrender it to the assessor. |
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| A person may not be issued a distributor's license or granted a | renewal of a license unless the person certifies in writing to | the Attorney General that the person is in compliance with Title | 22, section 1580-L. |
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| | Sec. 3. 36 MRSA §4383, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 322, §1, is | repealed. |
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| | Sec. 4. 36 MRSA §4402, as amended by PL 2001, c. 526, §4, is | further amended by adding at the end a new paragraph to read: |
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| | A person may not be issued a license or granted a renewal of a | license unless the person certifies in writing to the Attorney | General that the person is in compliance with Title 22, section | 1580-L. |
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