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LD 694
Session - 127th Maine Legislature
 
LR 487
Item 1
Bill Tracking, Additional Documents Chamber Status

An Act To Improve the Veterans' Services Laws

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

Sec. 1. 37-B MRSA §504, sub-§4, ¶H  is enacted to read:

H A person is not eligible for interment under this chapter if the person has been proven to have committed a serious crime, such as murder, a sexual offense or any crime punishable by imprisonment for life. For the purposes of this section, "proven to have committed a serious crime" means that the person was convicted by a court of competent jurisdiction of a crime and received a sentence at least as severe as life imprisonment or the person died in the act of committing a crime for which life imprisonment was a possible sentence and the senior law enforcement official investigating the crime certifies in writing that the person died in the act of committing a serious crime for which life imprisonment was a possible sentence.

Sec. 2. 37-B MRSA §509, sub-§2, ¶F,  as amended by PL 2005, c. 273, §3, is further amended to read:

F. A civilian employee or military member of the department when in the conduct of official duties; or

Sec. 3. 37-B MRSA §509, sub-§2, ¶G,  as enacted by PL 2005, c. 273, §4, is amended to read:

G. The administrator of the Maine Veterans' Home when in the conduct of official duties . ; or

Sec. 4. 37-B MRSA §509, sub-§2, ¶H  is enacted to read:

H An authorized representative of the Department of Labor when in the conduct of official duties.

SUMMARY

This bill provides that a person is ineligible for interment in the Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery System if that person has been proven to have committed a serious crime, such as murder, a sexual offense or any crime punishable by imprisonment for life. It also allows Department of Labor personnel to access veterans' military service records.


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