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ME LD1462
Bill
Status
6/2/2025
Primary Sponsor
Allison Hepler
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AI Summary
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Prohibits Maine municipalities from adopting or enforcing ordinances that ban the vending of "expressive matter," defined as vendor-created materials with expressive content including newspapers, books, writings, paintings, prints, photography, sculpture, and performance art
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Allows municipalities to adopt time, place, and manner restrictions on expressive matter vending only if directly related to health, safety, or welfare; protection of natural resources and recreation; preventing commercial concentration in municipal parks; reasonable hours limitations; sanitary conditions; or ADA compliance
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Excludes purely commercial materials and expression that only proposes commercial transactions from the definition of protected "expressive matter"
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Municipalities with existing ordinances that substantially comply with these requirements are not required to adopt new regulations
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Became law without the Governor's signature on June 15, 2025 as Public Law Chapter 319
Legislative Description
An Act to Promote Artisans and the Creative Economy
Business Practices
Last Action
PASSED TO BE ENACTED, in concurrence.
6/2/2025