CHAPTER 248
H.P. 998 - L.D. 1390
Mandate preamble. This measure requires one or more local units of government to expand or modify activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenues but does not provide funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. Pursuant to the Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 21, two thirds of all of the members elected to each House have determined it necessary to enact this measure.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 21-A MRSA �22, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 161, �6, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:
�22. Records and documents are public; exception for ballots and voter address
1. Public records. All lists, books, documents and records required to be prepared by or filed with a public official are public records. Public records are open to public inspection during regular business hours under proper protective regulations made by the official charged with their custody.
2. Ballots. Ballots are not public records and may be inspected only in accordance with this Title.
3. Address of registered voter. Notwithstanding subsection 1 and Title 1, section 408, if a registered voter submits to the registrar a signed statement that the voter has good reason to believe that the physical safety of the voter or a member of the voter's family residing with the voter would be jeopardized if the voter's address were open to public inspection, that voter's address is not a public record and the registrar shall exclude that voter's address from public inspection. The voter's name, political party affiliation and electoral division remain a public record. The voter's signed statement is also a public record.
4. Disclosure of address. A voter's address that is excluded from public inspection pursuant to subsection 3 must be made available for public inspection by:
A. A law enforcement agency, if requested by that agency; or
B. A person identified in a court order, if directed by that order.
Effective September 19, 1997, unless otherwise indicated.
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