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An Act To Allow Grocery Stores under 10,000 Square Feet To Be Open on Sundays
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 17 MRSA §3204, sub-§2, ¶¶GG and HH, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 452, Pt. I, §55 and affected by Pt. X, §2, are amended to read:
 
GG.  Stores that have no more than 5,000 square feet of interior customer selling space, excluding back room storage, office and processing space; and
 
HH.  Stores with more than 5,000 square feet of interior customer selling space that engage in retail sales and that do not require, as a condition of employment, that their employees work on Sundays. If an employer decreases the average weekly work hours of an employee who has declined to work on Sundays, it is prima facie evidence that the employer has required Sunday work as a condition of employment in violation of this section, unless the employer and employee agreed that the employee would work on Sundays when the employee was initially hired. In no event, however, may any store having more than 5,000 square feet of interior customer selling space be open on Easter Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.; and
Sec. 2.  17 MRSA §3204, sub-§2, ¶II  is enacted to read:
 
II.  Grocery stores that have no more than 10,000 square feet of interior customer selling space, excluding back room storage, office and processing space.
 
SUMMARY
This bill exempts grocery stores that have no more than 10,000 square feet of interior customer selling space, excluding back room storage, office and processing space, from the law prohibiting a place of business from being open on Sundays.