Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 1350-B – Reporting of identity theft; mandatory police report and possible investigation
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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 1350-B
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Person: as used in this chapter may not be construed to require duplicative notice by more than one individual, corporation, trust, estate, cooperative, association or other entity involved in the same transaction. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 1347
- Personal information: means an individual's first name, or first initial, and last name in combination with any one or more of the following data elements, when either the name or the data elements are not encrypted or redacted:
A person who knows or reasonably believes that the person’s personal information has been misused in violation of Title 17?A, section 905?A may report the misuse and obtain a police report by contacting the local law enforcement agency that has jurisdiction over the person’s actual residence or place of business. That law enforcement agency shall make a police report of the matter and provide the complainant with a copy of that report. At its discretion, the law enforcement agency may undertake an investigation of the matter or refer it to another law enforcement agency. If the suspected crime was committed in a jurisdiction outside of the State, the local law enforcement agency shall refer the report to the law enforcement agency where the suspected crime was committed. [PL 2007, c. 634, §1 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 2007, c. 634, §1 (NEW).