§1544. Uniform crime reporting
It shall be the duty of all state, county and municipal law enforcement agencies, including those employees of the University of Maine System appointed to act as policemen, to submit to the State Bureau of Identification uniform crime reports, to include such information as is necessary to establish a Criminal Justice Information System and to enable the commanding officer to comply with section 1541, subsection 3. It shall be the duty of the bureau to prescribe the form, general content, time and manner of submission of such uniform crime reports. The bureau shall correlate the reports submitted to it and shall compile and submit to the Governor and Legislature annual reports based on such reports. A copy of such annual reports shall be furnished to all law enforcement agencies. [PL 1985, c. 779, §67 (AMD).]
The bureau shall establish a category for abuse by adults of family or household members, a category for cruelty to animals and a category for crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or ethnicity that are supplementary to its other reported information. The bureau shall prescribe the information to be submitted in the same manner as for all other categories of the uniform crime reports. [PL 2001, c. 399, §6 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1975, c. 763, §7 (RPR). PL 1979, c. 578, §§6,7 (AMD). PL 1979, c. 677, §18 (AMD). PL 1983, c. 583, §26 (AMD). PL 1985, c. 779, §67 (AMD). PL 1987, c. 515, §3 (AMD). PL 1987, c. 695, §6 (AMD). PL 1991, c. 206, §1 (AMD). PL 1991, c. 206, §2 (AFF). PL 1997, c. 47, §1 (AMD). PL 2001, c. 399, §6 (AMD).
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