§1611. Disguising horses in premium shows
Whoever, for the purpose of competing for purses or premiums, knowingly and designedly enters or drives any horse that shall have been painted or disguised, or that represents any other or different horse from the one which is purported to be entered, or shall knowingly and designedly, for the purpose of competing for premiums or purses enter or drive a horse in a class to which it does not properly belong shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500 or by imprisonment for not more than 6 months, and such horse, after such notice to the owner as the court may order and a hearing thereon, may be forfeited in the discretion of the court and sold; 1/2 of the net proceeds of such sale shall go to the informant and the other 1/2 to the county in which the offense is committed. The pecuniary penalty shall be enforced by indictment and the forfeiture by a libel filed by the informant and proceedings in the manner provided in Title 33, chapter 21.
Structure Maine Revised Statutes
Chapter 59: FRAUD AND FALSE PRETENSES
Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
17 §1601. Cheating by false pretenses (REPEALED)
17 §1602. Obtaining long distance telephone service without payment (REPEALED)
17 §1603. Uttering fraudulent receipts
17 §1603-A. Fraud against State (REPEALED)
17 §1604. False financial statements (REPEALED)
17 §1605. Fraudulent checks (REPEALED)
17 §1606. -- payment in 5 days or prima facie case of fraud (REPEALED)
17 §1607. Credit defined (REPEALED)
17 §1608. Procuring money by false pretense of physical defects (REPEALED)
17 §1608-A. Sale of finger alphabet cards as inducement in the sale of merchandise
17 §1609. False representations of standard for sale of sterling and coin silver articles (REPEALED)
17 §1609-A. Resetting, tampering or disconnecting odometers on motor vehicles (REPEALED)
17 §1610. Misrepresenting livestock
17 §1611. Disguising horses in premium shows
17 §1612. Gross fraud at common law (REPEALED)
17 §1613. Fraudulent conveyances or assignments (REPEALED)
17 §1614. Removal or concealment of mortgaged personal property (REPEALED)
17 §1615. Defrauding garage owner; posting copy of law (REPEALED)
17 §1616. Transfer tickets (REPEALED)
17 §1617. Tampering with street railway fare-box or use of mutilated coins (REPEALED)
17 §1618. Corporate acts after forfeiture of charter
17 §1619. Circulating advertisements in similitude of bank bills (REPEALED)
17 §1620. Fraudulent advertising; exemptions (REPEALED)
17 §1621. Use of false or unauthorized credit devices (REPEALED)
17 §1622. Notice of credit revocation (REPEALED)
17 §1623. Obtaining transportation on ski lift (REPEALED)
17 §1624. Definitions (REPEALED)
17 §1625. False statement as to financial condition or identity (REPEALED)
17 §1626. Theft of credit card; forgery (REPEALED)
17 §1628. Fraud by person authorized to provide goods or services (REPEALED)
17 §1629. Possession of machinery, plates or other contrivance or incomplete credit cards (REPEALED)
17 §1630. Receipt of money, goods, services or anything else of value (REPEALED)
17 §1631. Defenses not available (REPEALED)
17 §1632. Presumptions (REPEALED)
17 §1633. Penalties (REPEALED)
17 §1634. Construction (REPEALED)
17 §1635. Civil liability (REPEALED)
17 §1636. Posing as Indian in vending
17 §1637. False claims of membership in federally recognized tribe in the State