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Legal Statutes: Maine

UPDATED November 28, 2012

Maine Statutes


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Chapter 21. Offenses Against Public Order

back to top§ 506. Harassment by telephone

1. A person is guilty of harassment by telephone if:

A. By means of telephone he makes any comment, request, suggestion or proposal which is, in fact, offensively coarse or obscene, without the consent of the person called;

B. He makes a telephone call, whether or not conversation ensues, without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any person at the called number;

C. He makes or causes the telephone of another repeatedly or continuously to ring, with intent to harass any person at the called number;

D. He makes repeated telephone calls, during which conversation ensues, with the intent to harass any person at the called number; or

E. He knowingly permits any telephone under his control to be used for any purpose prohibited by this section.

2. The crime defined in this section may be prosecuted and punished in the county in which the defendant was located when he used the telephone, or in the county in which the telephone called or made to ring by the defendant was located.

3. Harassment by telephone is a Class E crime.
1975, c. 499, § 1, eff. May 1, 1976; 1975, c. 740, § 66, eff. May 1, 1976; 1981, c. 317, § 20.