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An Act To Hold Harmless a Municipality For Volunteer or Unpaid Labor
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 14 MRSA §8104-B, sub-§7, as amended by PL 1999, c. 456, §1, is further amended to read:
 
7. Certain services.   A decision not to provide communications, heat, light, water, electricity or solid or liquid waste collection, disposal or treatment services; and
Sec. 2. 14 MRSA §8104-B, sub-§8, as enacted by PL 1999, c. 456, §2, is amended to read:
 
8. Failure or malfunction of computer.   The direct or indirect failure or malfunction of computer hardware, computer software or any device containing a computer processor or chip that fails to accurately or properly recognize, calculate, display, sort or otherwise process dates or times as a result of the Year 2000 problem. This provision applies to failures or malfunctions occurring before January 2, 2001.
 
For purposes of this section, the "Year 2000 problem" means complications associated with using a 2-digit field to represent a year and its result on the year change from 1999 to 2000. These complications may include, but are not limited to:
 
A. Erroneous date calculations;
 
B. An ambiguous interpretation of the term "00";
 
C. The failure to recognize the year 2000 as a leap year;
 
D. The use of algorithms that use the term "99" or "00" as a flag for another function;
 
E. Problems arising from the use of applications, software or hardware that are date sensitive; and
 
F. The inability to distinguish between centuries.; and
Sec. 3.  14 MRSA §8104-B, sub-§9  is enacted to read:
 
9.  Activities of volunteers, unpaid employees and persons performing community service for a municipality.     The activity of a volunteer, unpaid employee or a person performing community service for a municipality.
 
SUMMARY
This bill makes a municipality immune from liability for the activity of a volunteer, unpaid employee or a person performing community service for the municipality.