An Act To Reduce Bomb Threats at Public Institutions and Businesses

Sec. 1. 17-A MRSA §509, sub-§1-A  is enacted to read:

Sec. 2. 17-A MRSA §509, sub-§2,  as enacted by PL 1975, c. 499, §1, is amended to read:

Sec. 3. Notice. The Department of Education shall require that an elementary or secondary school post the provisions of the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 17-A, section 509, subsection 2 regarding a person under 18 years of age in plain sight where students congregate inside each school building.

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This bill makes a person with specific knowledge of the perpetrator of an act of a false public alarm an accomplice to the crime of false public alarm if that person does not notify authorities within 24 hours of obtaining knowledge of the crime. This bill also prohibits a person under 18 years of age who is convicted of or adjudicated as having committed a false public alarm from possessing a driver's license or instruction permit or attending a driver education program until the July 1st subsequent to the person's 18th birthday and directs the Department of Education to require every elementary and secondary school to post notice of these provisions.