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Statutes > Maine > Title37b > Title37-Bch19sec0 > Title37-Bsec1010Title 37-B: DEFENSE, VETERANS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT HEADING: PL 1997, C. 455, §9 (RPR)
Chapter 19: SABOTAGE PREVENTION
§1010. Questioning and detaining suspected persons
Any peace officer or any person employed as watchman, guard or in a supervisory capacity on premises posted, as provided in section 1009, may stop any person found on any premises to which entry without permission is forbidden by section 1009 and may detain him for the purpose of questioning and may question him with respect to his name, address and business in that place. If the peace officer or employee has reason to believe from the answers of the person so interrogated that the person has no right to be in that place, the peace officer shall forthwith either release that person or arrest the person without a warrant on the charge of violating section 1009. The employee shall forthwith release the person or turn him over to a peace officer, who may arrest him without a warrant on the charge of violating section 1009. [1983, c. 460, §3 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
1983, c. 460, §3 (NEW).
