CHAPTER 442

H.P. 577 - L.D. 812

An Act To Make Illegal Possession of Certain Narcotic Drugs

a Class C Crime

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 17-A MRSA §1107-A, sub-§1, ¶B, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 383, §127 and affected by §156, is amended to read:

B. A schedule W drug that is:

(1) Heroin (diacetylmorphine);

(2) Cocaine in the form of cocaine base and at the time of the offense the person has been convicted of any offense under this chapter or under any law of the United States, another state or a foreign country relating to scheduled drugs, as defined in this chapter. For the purposes of this paragraph, a person has been convicted of an offense on the date the judgment of conviction was entered by the court; or

(3) Methamphetamine.;

(4)__Oxycodone;

(5)__Hydrocodone; or

(6)__Hydromorphone.

Violation of this paragraph is a Class C crime;