CHAPTER 249
H.P. 747 - L.D. 966
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 14 MRSA §8107, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 1977, c. 2, §2, is amended to read:
2. Incapacity. If the claimant is incapacitated and thereby prevented from presenting and filing the claim within the time prescribed or if the claimant is a minor, the claim may be presented and filed on behalf of the claimant by any relative, attorney or agent representing the claimant. If the claimant is a minor when the cause of action accrues, the notice may be presented within 180 days of the minor's attaining 18 years of age.
Sec. 2. 14 MRSA §8110, as enacted by PL 1977, c. 2, §§2 and 5 and amended by PL 1979, c. 68, §5, is further amended to read:
Every claim against a governmental entity or its employees permitted under this chapter shall be is forever barred from the courts of this State, unless an action therein is begun within 2 years after the cause of action accrues, except that, if the claimant is a minor when the cause of action accrues, the action may be brought within 2 years of the minor's attaining 18 years of age.
Sec. 3. Application. This Act applies to causes of action accruing on or after the effective date and to causes of action for which the statute of limitations has not expired as of the effective date.
Effective September 21, 2001, unless otherwise indicated.
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