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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Maine Revised Statutes: age-verification statute absence",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Maine has no enacted statute requiring age verification for access to online sexually explicit material or adult content websites as of the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature (current through October 1, 2026).",
      "body": "Maine has no enacted statute requiring age verification for access to online sexually explicit material or adult content websites as of the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature (current through October 1, 2026).\n\nWhat Maine State Legislature, Office of the Revisor of Statutes actually says:\n\n“This version of the Maine Revised Statutes reflects changes made through the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Maine Legislature, is current through October 1, 2026, and is subject to change without notice.”\n\nNote: Searched the official Maine Revised Statutes index (65 code pages, 3125 chapters/sections) via the legislature's own search tools for: 'age verification', 'sexually explicit material', 'adult content', 'online content age', 'website age verification', 'obscene', 'harmful to minors', 'minor', 'pornography', 'internet', 'digital', 'sexual'. No statute matching age-verification requirements for online adult content found. Related statutes found: Title 15 Ch 107 (custody of sexually explicit material in criminal cases), Title 17-A Ch 12 (sexual exploitation of minors - criminal), Title 8 Ch 26 (regulation of motion pictures for minors - REPEALED). None address website age verification. This is a contested absence record per requirements.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://legislature.maine.gov/legis/statutes/homepage.html",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-10",
      "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Maine State Legislature, Office of the Revisor of Statutes",
      "evidence_quote": "This version of the Maine Revised Statutes reflects changes made through the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Maine Legislature, is current through October 1, 2026, and is subject to change without notice.",
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      "subject": "Maine Revised Statutes",
      "topic": "age-verification statute absence",
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      "verification": {
        "status": "unverified",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
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        "checked_utc": "20261021-123916Z"
      }
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