Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 — Taxation
36 M.R.S. § 993
Arrest; notice; procedure; fees
If any resident or nonresident taxpayer assessed in accordance with this chapter, for 12 days after demand, refuses or neglects to pay the tax due and to show the tax collector sufficient goods and chattels to pay it, the tax collector may arrest the taxpayer in the county where found and commit the taxpayer there to jail, until the taxpayer pays it or is discharged by law.
If the tax collector thinks that there are just grounds to fear that such person may abscond before the end of the 12 days, the tax collector may demand immediate payment and, on failure to pay, the tax collector may commit such person as provided.
For commitment for nonpayment of taxes, the tax collector is entitled to the same fees as sheriffs have for levying executions, but the tax collector's travel must be computed only from the tax collector's dwelling house to the place of commitment.
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In this chapter (40 sections)
- 905 · Municipalities may set off moneys due against taxes
- 906 · Application of payments to unpaid taxes
- 941 · Civil action with special attachments; procedure
- 942 · Tax lien certificate; procedure
- 942-A · Aggregate tax lien certificate for time-share units; procedure
- 943 · Tax lien mortgage; redemption; discharge; foreclosure
- 943-A · Application for abatement
- 943-B · Credit reporting; payment during redemption period
- 943-C · Sale of foreclosed properties
- 944 · Foreclosure for equitable relief, procedure
- 945 · Foreclosure in action for equitable relief; alternative…
- 946 · Action for equitable relief after period of redemption; procedure
- 946-A · Tax-acquired property and the restriction of title action
- 946-B · Tax-acquired property and the restriction of title action
- 946-C · Abandoned tax-acquired property
- 947 · Presumption of validity
- 948 · Supplemental assessments; enforcement of lien
- 949 · Disbursement of excess funds
- 991 · Distraint for taxes; procedure; sale
- 992 · Disposition of surplus
- 993 · Arrest; notice; procedure; fees
- 994 · Tax collector may issue warrant of distress to sheriff, deputy…
- 995 · Warrant of distress; service; notice; fees
- 996 · Distraint before tax due to prevent loss
- 997 · Arrest and commitment; procedure
- 998 · Tax collector liable unless taxpayer imprisoned within one year
- 1031 · Tax collector may bring action in own name
- 1032 · Action may be brought in name of municipality
- 1071 · Tax collector's tax auction sale; notice; procedure
- 1072 · -- form
- 1073 · Notice to owners or occupants of time and place of sale
- 1074 · Sale; procedure; costs
- 1075 · Tax collector's return of sale; form
- 1076 · Purchaser to notify mortgagee of sale; right of redemption
- 1077 · Purchaser's failure to pay in 20 days voids sale
- 1078 · Owner's right to redeem
- 1079 · Refund of taxes paid by purchaser
- 1080 · Delivery of deed to purchaser after 2 years
- 1081 · Nonresident owner's action; time limit
- 1082 · Municipal officers may bid at sale