Maine Code — 33
Browse 468 sections in division 33 of the Maine code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 1.. Termination date
- § 2.. Specific performance after death of seller
- § 3.. -- decree
- § 4.. -- enforcement of decree
- § 5.. Specific performance after death of purchaser
- § 51.. Writing required; consideration need not be expressed
- § 52.. Written ratification of minor's contracts required; contracts to further higher education
- § 53.. Representation of another's credit
- § 121.. Definitions
- § 122.. Creation; conveyance; acceptance; duration
- § 123.. Judicial actions
- § 124.. Scope of affordable housing covenant
- § 125.. Validity
- § 126.. Application
- § 151.. Items covered by deed
- § 151-A.. Definitions
- § 152.. Contingent estates
- § 153.. Sale or mortgage of estates subject to contingent remainders
- § 154.. -- notice; appointment of next friend of minors
- § 155.. -- bond of trustees; disposal of proceeds of sale
- § 156.. Entailments barred by conveyance in fee simple
- § 157.. Conveyance of greater estate, conveys only interest owned
- § 158.. Conveyance for life and to heirs in fee
- § 159.. Conveyances to 2 or more persons
- § 160.. -- mortgage or trust
- § 161.. Quitclaim or release
- § 162.. No estate greater than tenancy at will unless by writing
- § 163.. Private transfer fee obligations void and unenforceable
- § 171.. Definitions
- § 172.. Applicability; exemptions
- § 173.. Required disclosures
- § 173-A.. Information provided
- § 174.. Delivery and time of disclosure; cancellation of contract
- § 175.. Change in circumstances
- § 176.. Rights and duties of seller and purchaser
- § 177.. Liability
- § 178.. Effect on other statutes or common law
- § 179.. Effective date
- § 191.. Definitions
- § 192.. Applicability; exemptions
- § 193.. Disclosures
- § 194.. Delivery and time of disclosure; cancellation of contract
- § 201.. Priority of recording
- § 201-A.. Conditions of actual notice
- § 201-B.. Notice; construction of provisions
- § 202.. Failure to record, effect of
- § 203.. Need for acknowledgment
- § 204.. Deed lost before recording
- § 205.. Certified copies of deeds recorded in other registries
- § 206.. Recording by compulsion
- § 207.. Recording master form
- § 208.. Indexing
- § 209.. Incorporating master form
- § 210.. Recording instrument incorporating master forms
- § 251.. Appointment; powers
- § 252.. Legal effect of official acts
- § 253.. Administration of oaths and depositions
- § 254.. Qualifications and seal
- § 301.. Grantor dead or out of State
- § 302.. Witness dead or absent
- § 303.. Grantor refusing to acknowledge
- § 304.. Proof before justice of the peace after summons
- § 305.. Certification
- § 306.. -- indorsement of certificate of acknowledgment
- § 351.. Acknowledgments after commission expired
- § 352.. Defective acknowledgments
- § 353-A.. Miscellaneous defects
- § 353-B.. Defects in plats
- § 401.. Cutting and sale of trees; order of court
- § 402.. -- proceeds invested; income appropriated
- § 403.. -- appointment of trustees; bond
- § 451.. Rights of aliens
- § 452.. Deeds and contracts by agents
- § 453.. Conveyances for use of county
- § 454.. Church pews
- § 455.. Agreements to treat building as personal property
- § 456.. Address of buyer
- § 457.. Error or omission of mailing address
- § 458.. Easements or rights-of-way; installation of utility services
- § 459.. Easements and rights-of-way; installation of docks
- § 460.. Conveyance of land abutting a road or way
- § 461.. Prior conveyances
- § 462.. Preservation of claims by filing of notice within 2 years
- § 463.. Filing of notice; recording fee
- § 464.. Persons under a disability; 2-year period not suspended
- § 465.. Abutters own the centerline of road or way
- § 466.. -- State and municipal owned roads
- § 467.. -- public easement acquired over opposite sides of road or way in unequal proportion
- § 468.. Statutes of limitation not extended
- § 469.. Liberal construction
- § 469-A.. Title to proposed, unaccepted ways
- § 470.. Failure of spouse to join in release of right and interest by descent
- § 471.. Preservation of claims by filing of notice
- § 472.. Filing of notice; recording fee; indexing
- § 473.. Persons under disability; 2-year period not suspended
- § 474.. Statutes of limitations not extended; bar or release not affected
- § 475.. Liberal construction
- § 476.. Definitions
- § 477.. Creation, conveyance, acceptance and duration
- § 477-A.. Conservation easement standards
- § 478.. Judicial actions
- § 479.. Validity
- § 479-A.. Applicability
- § 479-B.. Uniformity of application and construction
- § 479-C.. Conservation lands reporting
- § 480.. Signature of nonowner
- § 481.. Definitions
- § 482.. Minimum contents of land installment contracts; recordation
- § 483.. Prohibited acts
- § 501.. Forms
- § 501-A.. "Power of sale"
- § 502.. Entry by mortgagee
- § 503.. Property insurance
- § 504.. Interest on residential mortgage escrow accounts
- § 505.. Open-end mortgages
- § 506.. Undocumented mortgage agreements
- § 507.. Disclosure regarding private mortgage insurance
- § 508.. Nominee mortgagees
- § 521.. Short title
- § 522.. Definitions
- § 523.. Applicability
- § 524.. Duty of lender
- § 525.. Duty of settlement agent
- § 526.. Penalty
- § 527.. Enforcement
- § 528.. Privacy duties of settlement agents
- § 551.. Entry on record; neglect to discharge
- § 552.. Validation
- § 553-A.. Discharge by attorney
- § 560.. Short title
- § 561.. Definitions
- § 562.. Application
- § 563.. Status of units
- § 564.. Ownership of units
- § 565.. Common elements
- § 566.. Compliance with bylaws and rules and regulations
- § 567.. Certain work prohibited
- § 568.. Common profits and expenses
- § 569.. Contents of declaration
- § 570.. Contents of deeds of units
- § 571.. Recording
- § 572.. Mortgage and liens affecting a unit at time of first conveyance
- § 573.. Withdrawal
- § 574.. Subsequent resubmission
- § 575.. Bylaws
- § 576.. Contents of bylaws
- § 576-A.. Electric vehicle charging stations allowed
- § 577.. Books of receipts and expenditures; availability for examination
- § 578.. Waiver of use of common elements; abandonment of unit
- § 579.. Separate taxation
- § 580.. Lien for common charges
- § 581.. Foreclosure
- § 582.. Voluntary conveyance
- § 583.. Insurance
- § 584.. Repair and reconstruction
- § 585.. Actions
- § 586.. Users subject to land
- § 587.. Loans
- § 589.. Definitions
- § 589-A.. Requirements of membership camping
- § 589-B.. Membership camping contract brokers; fees; escrow accounts; disclosures to new purchaser; notice of cancellation to purchaser
- § 589-C.. Violation
- § 601.. Election of register; vacancies
- § 602.. Examination of lists by Governor; certificates; tenure
- § 603.. Bond
- § 604.. Salaries
- § 605.. Deputy; oath and duties
- § 608.. Removal of register for misconduct or incapacity
- § 609.. Successors may complete records and grant certificates
- § 610.. Certificates, conditions and requisites of
- § 611.. Recording officer not to draft or aid in drafting recorded instrument
- § 651.. Records; index
- § 651-A.. Grantor, grantee names; form of indexing
- § 651-B.. Privacy protection
- § 652.. Recording plans
- § 653.. Time of recording; verification
- § 654.. Miscellaneous records
- § 655.. Town records to State Archivist for safekeeping
- § 657.. Filing of subdivision plats; penalty
- § 658.. Recording of releases or waivers of conditions
- § 659.. Duplicates of plans in court files
- § 660.. Plans of townships; copies; filing and indexing
- § 661.. Plans deemed of interest to county
- § 662.. Plans showing allotment of lands in cities and towns
- § 663.. Copies of transfers of lands in unorganized territory sent to State Tax Assessor
- § 665.. Farm owner may name lands for filing and recording
- § 666.. Transfer of named farm lands
- § 669.. Copies of bankruptcy orders and decrees
- § 670.. Facsimile signature of the register and deputy register of deeds
- § 701.. Office in shire town
- § 703.. Northern district office in Aroostook County
- § 751.. Schedule
- § 752.. Records preservation surcharge
- § 753.. Definitions
- § 761.. Statutory forms; incorporation by reference; title
- § 762.. Rules and definitions
- § 763.. Warranty deed
- § 764.. Warranty covenants
- § 765.. Quitclaim deed with covenant
- § 766.. Quitclaim covenant or limited covenant
- § 767.. Mortgage deed
- § 768.. Mortgage covenants
- § 769.. Statutory condition in mortgage
- § 770.. Assignment of mortgage; words of transfer
- § 771.. Grant as a word of conveyance
- § 772.. Words of inheritance; habendum
- § 772-A.. Effect of release
- § 773.. Easements, privileges and appurtenances belonging to granted estate
- § 774.. Seals not required
- § 775.. Appendix
- § 801-A.. Definitions
- § 802.. East, West, Maine 2000 West, Maine 2000 Central and Maine 2000 East zones
- § 803.. Plane coordinates of a point
- § 803-A.. Describing the location of any survey station or land boundary corner
- § 804.. Land extending from one zone to another
- § 805.. Technical definition
- § 806.. Use in making official records of land boundaries
- § 807.. Use of terms
- § 851.. Trust in lands requires writing
- § 851-A.. Conveyances to or from trusts without naming trustee
- § 852.. Titles not defeated by trusts without notice or record
- § 901.. Corporate securities
- § 902.. -- retroactive effect
- § 903.. -- existing tenancies not affected
- § 904.. -- form of agreement
- § 951.. Joinder or severance; notice
- § 952.. Judgment; execution for share
- § 953.. Recovery of rent or income from joint tenant
- § 1021.. Definitions
- § 1022.. Undue influence
- § 1023.. Civil action; relief available
- § 1024.. Other common law and statutory causes of action and relief still available
- § 1025.. Title practices
- § 1051.. Duty of finder of money or goods worth $3 or more
- § 1053.. Appraisal if value $10 or more
- § 1054.. Restitution to appearing owner; money or goods
- § 1056.. Finder's rights when no owner appears
- § 1058.. Failure to give notice; penalty
- § 1101.. Unsolicited merchandise; duty of receiver
- § 1201.. Legislative intent, purpose
- § 1202.. Definitions
- § 1203.. Registry
- § 1204.. -- duties
- § 1205.. Registration
- § 1206.. Filing and notice of failure to file
- § 1207.. Title in State
- § 1208.. Late registrations
- § 1209.. Review of claims to coastal islands
- § 1210.. Exemption
- § 1211.. Requirement for notice
- § 1212.. List
- § 1213.. Water boundaries
- § 1215.. Rules and regulations
- § 1216.. Limitation
- § 1217.. Fees
- § 1218.. Fraudulent registration
- § 1401.. Establishment of solar easements
- § 1402.. Contents of solar easements
- § 1551.. Definitions
- § 1552.. Preservation interests authorized; enforcement; release
- § 1553.. Scope of preservation interest
- § 1554.. Recordation
- § 1555.. Limitation
- § 1581.. Definitions
- § 1582.. Creation, conveyance, acceptance and duration
- § 1583.. Judicial actions
- § 1584.. Validity
- § 1585.. Applicability
- § 1601-101.. Short title
- § 1601-102.. Applicability
- § 1601-103.. Definitions
- § 1601-104.. Variation by agreement
- § 1601-105.. Separate titles and taxation
- § 1601-106.. Applicability of local laws and regulations
- § 1601-107.. Eminent Domain
- § 1601-108.. Supplemental general principles of law applicable
- § 1601-109.. Construction against implicit repeal
- § 1601-110.. Uniformity of application and construction
- § 1601-111.. Severability
- § 1601-112.. Unconscionable agreement or term of contract
- § 1601-113.. Obligation of good faith
- § 1601-114.. Remedies to be liberally administered
- § 1601-115.. Legal investments
- § 1601-116.. Effective date
- § 1602-101.. Creation of condominium
- § 1602-102.. Unit boundaries
- § 1602-103.. Construction and validity of declaration and bylaws
- § 1602-104.. Description of units
- § 1602-105.. Contents of declaration
- § 1602-106.. Leasehold condominiums
- § 1602-107.. Allocations of common element interests, votes and common expense liabilities
- § 1602-108.. Limited common elements
- § 1602-109.. Plats and plans
- § 1602-110.. Exercise of development rights
- § 1602-111.. Alterations of units
- § 1602-112.. Relocation of boundaries between adjoining units
- § 1602-113.. Subdivision of units
- § 1602-114.. Easement for encroachments
- § 1602-115.. Use for sales purposes
- § 1602-116.. Easement to facilitate exercise of special declarant rights