Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 2008 – Deceased victims
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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 2008
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Offender: means an individual or an organization convicted of a crime. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 2002
- Restitution: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 2002Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action. Victim: means a government that suffers economic loss or a person who suffers personal injury, death or economic loss as a result of a crime or the good faith effort of any person to prevent a crime. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 2002
An offender‘s obligation to pay restitution is not affected by the death of the victim to whom the restitution is due. The money collected as restitution must be forwarded to the estate of the victim. If an offender is an heir, beneficiary or recipient of the victim’s estate, any restitution paid to the estate under this section may not benefit the offender but must be distributed to any other heir, beneficiary or recipient as if the distribution of the estate’s assets did not include the offender or, if the victim’s estate has no heir, beneficiary or recipient other than the offender, the restitution must be paid to the Victims’ Compensation Fund under Title 5, chapter 316?A or the Victims’ Property Compensation Fund under Title 5, chapter 316?C, determined by whether the restitution is for underlying injury or property damage. [PL 2021, c. 307, §1 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 2019, c. 113, Pt. A, §2 (NEW). PL 2021, c. 307, §1 (AMD).