3. If, at any time subsequent to an arrest made pursuant to subsection 2, it appears that the evidence of the person's correct name and, address and date of birth was accurate, the person must be released from custody and any record of that custody must show that the person was released for that reason. If, upon trial for violating subsection 2, a person is acquitted on the ground that the evidence of the person's correct name and, address and date of birth was accurate, the record of acquittal must show that that was the ground.

Sec. 3. 17-A MRSA §17, sub-§1, as amended by PL 1995, c. 65, Pt. A, §56 and affected by §153 and Pt. C, §15, is further amended to read:

1. A law enforcement officer who has probable cause to believe that a civil violation has been committed by a person must issue or have delivered a written summons to that person directing the person to appear in the District Court to answer the allegation that the person has committed the violation. The summons must include the signature of the officer, a brief description of the alleged violation, the time and place of the alleged violation and the time, place and date the person is to appear in court. The form used must be the Violation Summons and Complaint, as prescribed in Title 29-A, section 2601, for traffic infractions and the Uniform Summons and Complaint for other civil violations, except that, if the agency by whom the officer is employed has on May 1, 1991 current stocks of forms that the agency is authorized to use, the agency may permit officers to use those forms in place of the Uniform Summons and Complaint until those stocks are depleted. A person to whom a summons is issued or delivered must give a written promise to appear. If the person refuses to sign the summons after having been ordered to do so by a law enforcement officer, the person commits a Class E crime. The law enforcement officer may not order a person to sign the summons for a civil violation unless the civil violation is an offense defined in Title 12; Title 23, section 1980; Title 28-A, section 2052; or Title 29-A.

Every law enforcement officer issuing a Violation Summons and Complaint charging the commission of a traffic infraction shall file the original of the Violation Summons and Complaint with the violations bureau within 5 days of the issuance of that Violation