The following rules shall be observed in the construction of statutes, unless such construction is inconsistent with the plain meaning of the enactment.
[RR 2023, c. 1, Pt. C, §4(COR).]
[2007, c. 396, §1(RPR); 2007, c. 396, §4(AFF).]
[1971, c. 439, §2(RPR).]
[1987, c. 705, §1(RP).]
[1987, c. 861, §§1-3(AMD).]
[1991, c. 332, §1(AMD).]
[1991, c. 332, §2(NEW).]
Wherever in the Revised Statutes or any legislative Act a reference is made to several sections, subsections, paragraphs, subparagraphs, divisions, subdivisions or sentences, the section, subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, division, subdivision or sentence numbers given in the reference are connected by the word "to," the reference includes both the sections, subsections, paragraphs, subparagraphs, divisions, subdivisions or sentences whose numbers are given and all intervening sections, subsections, paragraphs, subparagraphs, divisions, subdivisions and sentences.
Wherever in the Revised Statutes the designation of a division of the statutes larger than a section is numbered with the use of a Roman numeral, it may be known and cited by its Arabic equivalent.
[2001, c. 710, §1(AMD).]
[2015, c. 431, §1(AMD).]
[2001, c. 471, Pt. D, §1(NEW).]
1 M.R.S. § 71