§11224. Duty of person employed or attending college or school to

register

A person who is required under another jurisdiction to register as a sex offender or sexually violent predator pursuant to that jurisdiction's sex offender registration statute because the person is domiciled in another state or who is convicted and sentenced of a similar sex offense or sexually violent offense in another jurisdiction that would require registration in this State shall register as a sex offender within 10 days of beginning full-time or part-time employment, with or without compensation, for more than 14 consecutive days or for an aggregate period exceeding 30 days in a calendar year or beginning college or school on a full-time or part-time basis in this State. The person shall contact the bureau, which shall provide the person with a registration form and direct the person to take the form and a photograph of the person to the law enforcement agency having jurisdiction. The law enforcement agency shall supervise the completion of the form, take the person's fingerprints and immediately forward the form, photograph and fingerprints to the bureau.

Sec. 12. 34-A MRSA §11228 is enacted to read:

§11228.__Certification by record custodian

Notwithstanding any other law or rule of evidence, a certificate by the custodian of the records of the bureau, when signed and sworn to by that custodian, is admissible in a judicial or administrative proceeding as prima facie evidence of any fact stated in the certificate or in any documents attached to the certificate.

Sec. 13. 34-A MRSA §11254, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 439, Pt. OOO, §15, is amended to read:

§11254. Mandatory notification of conditional release or

discharge of sex offenders

The department, county jails, state mental health institutes and the Department of Public Safety, State Bureau of Identification are governed by the following notice provisions when a sex offender or sexually violent predator is conditionally released or discharged.