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§512
Title 17-A: MAINE CRIMINAL CODE
Part 2: SUBSTANTIVE OFFENSES
Chapter 21: OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER
§514

§513. Maintaining an unprotected well

1.  A person is guilty of maintaining an unprotected well if, being the owner or occupier of land on which there is a well, that person knowingly fails to enclose the well with a substantial fence or other substantial enclosing barrier or to protect it by a substantial covering that is securely fastened.  
[RR 2025, c. 2, Pt. F, §20 (COR).]
2.  Maintaining an unprotected well is a Class E crime.  
[PL 1975, c. 499, §1 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1975, c. 499, §1 (NEW). RR 2025, c. 2, Pt. F, §20 (COR).
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