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As amended through November 25, 2024

Rule 3 - ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

Only the following legal service providers are eligible to receive disbursements from the fund to provide free civil legal services in Maine:

A. Nonprofit organizations whose missions include the statewide provision of free civil legal services and who have at least five years of experience providing free civil legal services;

B. Legal aid clinics of accredited law schools operating exclusively in Maine; and

C. Programs whose primary mission is to coordinate pro bono legal services on a statewide basis for low-income people in Maine.

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Amended September 6, 2019, effective 9/19/2019.

Advisory Note - September2019

Rule 3(A) is amended to provide that a nonprofit organization is eligible to receive disbursements from the fund if it has a mission that includes the statewide provision of free legal services and has at least five years of experience providing free civil legal services, rather than the previously required one year of experience.

Rule 3(C) is amended to provide for the eligibility of a program that has a primary mission to coordinate pro bono legal services on a statewide basis for low-income people in Maine.

Both of these amendments are promulgated to conform with recent statutory amendments. See P.L. 2019, ch. 509, § 1 (effective Sept. 19, 2019) (to be codified at 4 M.R.S. § 18-A(1)(B) ).