§ 3951 Killing for assault permitted
§ 3952-A Keeping a dangerous dog or a nuisance dog
§ 3953 Stealing, injuring or killing dogs
§ 3954 Prohibitions on dangerous dogs and nuisance dogs
§ 3955 Leaving the scene of an assault by a dog that causes an injury that requires medical attention for a person

Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 7 > Part 9 > Chapter 727 - Dangerous Dogs and Nuisance Dogs

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907
  • Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
  • Chief administrative officer: means the head of a correctional facility or a detention facility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Corrections or his designee, except that, when the term "commissioner and only the commissioner" is used, the term applies only to the person appointed Commissioner of Corrections and not to any designee. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
  • Constable: means a law enforcement officer appointed by municipal officers pursuant to law. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907
  • Contract agency: means a facility or program outside the jurisdiction of the department, providing services under contract to the department. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
  • Contract client: means a client residing in a facility or participating in a program outside the jurisdiction of the department under an agreement between the department and the contract agency. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
  • Correctional facility: means any facility that falls under the jurisdiction of the department, but does not include any facility for which the department is required to establish standards pursuant to section 1208 or 1208?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
  • Correctional program: includes , but is not limited to, probation and parole, court intake and jail inspection. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Dangerous dog: means a dog or wolf hybrid that causes the death of or inflicts serious bodily injury on an individual or a domesticated animal who is not trespassing on the dog or wolf hybrid owner's or keeper's premises at the time of the injury or death; a dog or wolf hybrid that causes a reasonable and prudent person who is not on the dog or wolf hybrid owner's or keeper's premises and is acting in a reasonable and nonaggressive manner to fear imminent serious bodily injury by assaulting or threatening to assault that individual or individual's domesticated animal; or a dog or wolf hybrid that inflicts bodily injury on an individual or a domesticated animal who is not trespassing on the dog or wolf hybrid owner's or keeper's premises at the time of the injury and has previously been determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be a nuisance dog. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Department: means the Department of Corrections. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
  • Detention facility: means the Long Creek Youth Development Center. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
  • Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
  • Dog: means a member of the genus and species known as canis familiaris, except that in chapters 720, 721, 725, 727, 729 and 739 "dog" means a member of the genus and species known as canis familiaris or any canine, regardless of generation, resulting from the interbreeding of a member of canis familiaris with a wolf hybrid. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Holding facility: means a facility or part of a building used for the detention of adult pretrial detainees prior to arraignment, release or transfer to another facility or authority for periods of up to 48 hours. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Informally adjusted juvenile: means a juvenile participating in a program of informal adjustment, as defined in Title 15, section 3003, subsection 10. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
  • Investigative officer: means an employee of the department designated by the commissioner as having the authority to conduct investigations of crimes or juvenile crimes relating to the security or orderly management of a facility administered by the department and engage in any other activity that is related to the administration of criminal justice as defined in Title 16, section 703, subsection 1 for the purposes of the Criminal History Record Information Act or as defined in Title 16, section 803, subsection 2 for the purposes of the Intelligence and Investigative Record Information Act or the administration of juvenile justice and who is certified by the Board of Trustees of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy as a full-time law enforcement officer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
  • Juvenile client: means a juvenile committed to a juvenile correctional facility who is either residing at the facility or is on community reintegration status, or ordered confined in a juvenile correctional facility pursuant to Title 12, section 6004, 8004 or 10608; Title 15, section 3314, subsection 1, paragraph H; Title 15, section 3314, subsection 7; or Title 29?A, section 115. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
  • Juvenile detainee: means a juvenile detained at a departmental juvenile facility pending a court proceeding or pursuant to Title 15, section 3312, subsection 3, paragraph D. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
  • Keeper: means a person in possession or control of a dog or other animal. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907
  • lands: includes lands and all tenements and hereditaments connected therewith, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Law enforcement officer: means any person who, by virtue of the person's public employment, is vested by law with a duty to maintain public order, enforce any law of this State establishing a civil violation, prosecute offenders or make arrests for crimes, whether that duty extends to all crimes or is limited to specific crimes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Likelihood of serious harm: means a:
    • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Livestock: means cattle; equines; sheep; goats; swine; domesticated cervids, fowl and rabbits; members of the family Camelidae, genus lama and genus vicugna; bison; and ratites. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
  • Municipality: means an organized city, town or plantation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907
  • Nuisance dog: means a dog or wolf hybrid that causes bodily injury, other than serious bodily injury, to an individual or a domesticated animal who is not trespassing on the dog or wolf hybrid owner's or keeper's premises at the time of the injury; a dog or wolf hybrid that causes a reasonable and prudent person who is not on the dog or wolf hybrid owner's or keeper's premises and is acting in a reasonable and nonaggressive manner to fear bodily injury, other than serious bodily injury, by assaulting or threatening to assault that individual or individual's domesticated animal; or a dog or wolf hybrid that causes damage to property or crops not owned by the dog or wolf hybrid owner or keeper while the dog or wolf hybrid is not on the owner's or keeper's premises. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907
  • 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.
  • Owner: means a person owning, keeping or harboring a dog or other animal. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907
  • Parking area: means land maintained by the State at the correctional facilities which may be designated as parking areas by the chief administrative officers of the correctional facilities. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, association or any other legal entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907
  • Person with mental illness: means a person who has attained 18 years of age and has been diagnosed as having a psychiatric or other illness that substantially impairs that person's mental health. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
  • personal information: means :
    • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 33 Sec. 2211
  • Prison: means the Maine State Prison. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
  • Prisoner: means an adult person sentenced and committed to, transferred to or detained in the custody of the department, including a person on supervised community confinement. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Public way: means a road or driveway on land maintained by the State at the correctional facilities. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
  • Regional correctional administrator: means the supervisor of adult probation and parole services or the supervisor of juvenile community corrections officer services for a region. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • Restorative justice: means a practice in which offenders take responsibility for causing harm and engage in a facilitated process with victims, family members, community members, advocates and others impacted by the harm that focuses on repairing the harm, addressing needs and preventing future harm. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
  • Segregation: means the separation of a prisoner from the general population of a correctional facility for administrative or punitive reasons. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Short-term detention area: means a section of a building used for the detention of pretrial detainees for periods of up to 4 hours. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Written political material: means flyers, handbills or other nonperiodical publications, which are subject to the restrictions of Title 21?A, chapter 13. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001