{"id":"DUT-ME-010","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Maine","state":"ME","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Maine Legislature (17 M.R.S. chapter 91, Nuisances)","authority":"R.S. 1954, c. 141; common law of public nuisance codified","instrument":"17 M.R.S. sec. 2702 (abatement of nuisance), sec. 2705 (jurisdiction by injunction), sec. 2706 (penalty and abatement of public or common nuisance), sec. 2802 (miscellaneous nuisances: a building or place used for \u0027a trade, employment or manufacture\u0027 that \u0027becomes injurious and dangerous to the health, comfort or property of individuals or of the public\u0027)","title":"Title 17, Chapter 91: Nuisances (Maine Revised Statutes, chapter compilation generated October 20, 2025)","dateIssued":"2025-10-20","effective":"standing; text in force throughout March 2020 to September 2021","end":"standing","startDate":"2025-10-20","endDate":"","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","CLOSE"],"addressees":["owners or persons in control of premises; businesses (\u0027any building or place for the exercise of a trade, employment or manufacture\u0027)"],"clause":"The erection, continuance or use of any building or place for the exercise of a trade, employment or manufacture that, by noxious exhalations, offensive smells or other annoyances, becomes injurious and dangerous to the health, comfort or property of individuals or of the public... are nuisances within the limitations and exceptions mentioned.","enforcement":"sec. 2706: \u0027Whoever erects, causes or continues a public or common nuisance, as herein described or at common law, where no other punishment is specially provided, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100. The court with or without such fine may order such nuisance to be discontinued or abated, and issue a warrant therefor as provided.\u0027; sec. 2705: injunction","functions":[],"notes":"Every person conducting a trade, employment or manufacture in a building or place to keep it from becoming \u0027injurious and dangerous to the health... of individuals or of the public,\u0027 on pain of a fine and a court order that the nuisance \u0027be discontinued or abated\u0027 with a warrant to enforce it (sec. 2706), abatement (sec. 2702) and injunction (sec. 2705).","sourceUrl":"https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/17/title17ch91.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":170678,"grade":"primary","character":"sanitary_code_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-ME","url":"/library/DUT-ME-010","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-ME-010","citation":"Maine Legislature (17 M.R.S. chapter 91, Nuisances), 17 M.R.S. sec. 2702 (abatement of nuisance), sec. 2705 (jurisdiction by injunction), sec. 2706 (penalty and abatement of public or common nuisance), sec. 2802 (miscellaneous nuisances: a building or place used for \u0027a trade, employment or manufacture\u0027 that \u0027becomes injurious and dangerous to the health, comfort or property of individuals or of the public\u0027) (standing) (Ex. DUT-ME-010)","stateName":"Maine","related":["DUT-ME-009","DUT-ME-015"]}