| | This chapter may be known and cited as the "Sex Offender | Registration and Notification Act of 1999." The purpose of this | chapter is to protect the public from potentially dangerous sex | offenders and sexually violent predators registrants by enhancing | access to information concerning sex offenders and sexually | violent predators those registrants. |
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| | Sec. C-5. 34-A MRSA §11202, as amended by PL 2001, c. 439, Pt. OOO, | §7, is repealed and the following enacted in its place: |
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| | This chapter applies to a person defined as a 10-year | registrant or lifetime registrant who has been sentenced on or | after June 30, 1992. |
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| | Sec. C-6. 34-A MRSA §11203, sub-§§1-A and 1-B, as enacted by PL 2001, c. | 439, Pt. OOO, §8, are amended to read: |
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| | 1-A. Conditional release. "Conditional release" means | supervised release of a sex offender or sexually violent predator | registrant from institutional confinement for placement on | probation, parole, intensive supervision, supervised community | confinement, home release monitoring or release under Title 15, | section 104-A or Title 17-A, chapter 50. |
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| | 1-B. Discharge. "Discharge" means unconditional release and | discharge of a sex offender or sexually violent predator | registrant from institutional confinement upon the expiration of | a sentence or upon discharge under Title 15, section 104-A. |
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| | Sec. C-7. 34-A MRSA §11203, sub-§§1-C and 3-A are enacted to read: |
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| | 1-C.__Another state.__"Another state" means each of the | several states except Maine, the District of Columbia, the | Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, | American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands. |
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| | 3-A.__Jurisdiction.__"Jurisdiction" means the Federal | Government, including the military, this State or another state | or tribe. |
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| | Sec. C-8. 34-A MRSA §11203, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 1999, c. 437, §2, | is repealed and the following enacted in its place: |
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| | 2.__Domicile.__"Domicile" means the place where a person has | that person's established, fixed, permanent or ordinary dwelling | place or legal residence to which, whenever the person is absent, |
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