A person commits a Class E crime if that person: [PL 2007, c. 455, §53 (RPR).] 1. False swearing; signature. Circulates an initiative or referendum petition and swears that a signature is that of a person whose name it purports to be when the circulator knows that the signature is not that of the person; [PL 2007, c. 455, §53 (RPR).] 2. False acknowledgement of oath. Is authorized by law to administer oaths and willfully and falsely acknowledges the oath of a circulator of an initiative or referendum petition when that oath was not made in the presence of that person; [PL 2007, c. 455, §53 (RPR).] 3. False signature. Knowingly signs an initiative or referendum petition with a name other than the person's own name; [PL 2007, c. 455, §53 (RPR).] 4. Duplicate signature. Knowingly signs the person's name more than once on initiative or referendum petitions for the same measure; [PL 2019, c. 456, §3 (AMD).] 5. False swearing; signature made in circulator's presence. Circulates an initiative or referendum petition and willfully swears that a signature to the petition was made in the circulator's presence when it was not; or [PL 2019, c. 456, §4 (AMD).] 6. Failure to truthfully execute and file circulator affidavit. Knowingly fails to truthfully execute and timely file a circulator affidavit under section 903-A, subsection 4. [PL 2019, c. 456, §5 (NEW).]
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