CHAPTER 320

H.P. 973 - L.D. 1409

An Act To Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of

Theft Offenses

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA §2671, sub-§2-B, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 594, §2, is amended to read:

2-B. Liability. When a municipal police officer makes an arrest, as authorized in subsection 2-A or subsection 4, outside of jurisdictional limits of the municipality in which the police officer is appointed, that police officer has the same immunity from tort liability and all of the pension, relief, disability, worker's workers' compensation, insurance and any other benefits the police officer enjoys while performing duties within the police officer's appointing municipality.

Sec. 2. 30-A MRSA §2671, sub-§4 is enacted to read:

4.__Multijurisdictional crimes.__If there is probable cause to believe that more than one theft, forgery or negotiation of a worthless instrument committed pursuant to one scheme or course of conduct by the same or several persons has occurred in more than one municipal jurisdiction, a police officer in a municipality in which at least one of the thefts, forgeries or negotiations of worthless instruments was committed may investigate and assist in the prosecution of all the related thefts, forgeries or negotiations of worthless instruments, with the express authorization of the police officer's municipal officers.