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Statutes > Maine > Title20a > Title20-Ach225sec0 > Title20-Asec6807Title 20-A: EDUCATION
Part 3: ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
Chapter 225: PENALTIES
§6807. Liability for injury to books or appliances
If a public school student loses, destroys or unnecessarily injures a schoolbook or appliance furnished to the student at the expense of the school administrative unit, the student's parent must be notified. If the loss or damage is not made good to the satisfaction of the school board within 45 working days, the board shall report the case to the assessors of the municipality in which the student resides. The municipal assessors shall include in the next municipal tax of the delinquent parent the replacement costs of the book or appliance, to be assessed and collected as other municipal taxes, and the money collected must go the municipality. [2001, c. 189, §2 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
1981, c. 693, §§5,8 (NEW). 1983, c. 806, §62 (AMD). 2001, c. 189, §2 (AMD).
