LD 728
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LD 728 Title Page An Act To Repeal the Crime of Plundering at Fires as Larceny LD 728 Title Page
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 25 MRSA §2462 is repealed.

 
SUMMARY

 
This bill repeals the crime of "plundering at fires," which
is larceny that occurs when a person "takes, carries away or
conceals any property not his own, at a fire, or exposed by
reason thereof, and does not give notice of it to the owner or
one of the fire wards." This crime may be prosecuted under
the Maine Criminal Code as theft.


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