United States — Maine Act or statute

United States — Maine legislation

Maine Revised Statutes, Title 13, § 2103: -- vacancies

If a board vacancy occurs before a term expires, the remaining board members must fill it by majority vote; if district elections are required, the vacancy is filled by electing a director from that district, or the…

board vacanciesdirector electionsspecial meetings

Professional statute overview

Enactment structure, operative effect and source provenance

Official source

01

Purpose and legislative effect

“If a board vacancy occurs before a term expires, the remaining board members must fill it by majority vote; if district elections are required, the vacancy is filled by electing a director from that district, or the board may call a special district meeting to fill it.”

Use this record to locate individual provisions, understand the instrument’s recorded structure, and move from a research summary to the exact source text.

02

How the instrument operates

  1. 01

    Start with the recorded version

    Source version 1 Oct 2025. The date shown identifies this source expression and should not be treated as proof that no later change exists.

  2. 02

    Locate the controlling provision

    Use the provision map, part headings and full-text filter to move from the broad subject to the exact legal language.

  3. 03

    Read conditions and exceptions together

    Keep subsections, definitions, provisos and cross-references in context before drawing a legal conclusion.

  4. 04

    Verify currency and official wording

    Confirm later legislation, commencement notices and corrections with the official publisher before advice, filing or reliance.

03

Research entry points

Selected provisions across the instrument. Open any row to continue with the exact stored text.

-- vacancies

If a board vacancy occurs before a term expires, the remaining board members must fill it by majority vote; if district elections are required, the vacancy is filled by electing a director from that district, or the board may call a special district meeting to…

Section 2103

04

Source and current-law status

Source record view

Source record from legislature.maine.gov · Source version 1 Oct 2025

Verify current force

The source record does not state a definitive current-law status. Check the official publisher and later amendments before relying on this text.

Source-indexed provision map

Sections and provisions

Search by section, heading, part or exact legal wording. Every result remains linked to the stored source record.

Showing 1 of 1 provisions

Provision
§ 2103-- vacanciesProvision

If a board vacancy occurs before a term expires, the remaining board members must fill it by majority vote; if district elections are required, the vacancy is filled by electing a director from that district, or the board may call a special district meeting to fill it.

When a vacancy on the board of directors occurs other than by expiration of term, the remaining members of the board, by a majority vote, shall fill the vacancy, provided that when the bylaws provide for an election of directors by districts, the vacancy shall be filled by the election of a director from the district in which the vacancy occurs; or the board of directors may call a special meeting of the members in that district to fill the vacancy.
Section 2103Verify source

Legislative relationships

0 referenced instruments

Names are derived from the stored provision headings and citation-enrichment layer. Treat this as a research index and verify each relationship against the source text.

No structured legislative relationships were detected

The statute remains fully searchable by provision. Consult the source text for amendments and cross-references that have not yet been indexed.

Recorded versions and source checkpoint

1 version available in this collection

Current-law checkpoint
  • 1 Oct 2025 · currentEnglish

Source-linked research

Ask AI about this statute

The overview, provisions, and source records above are public. Continue in a separate conversation with this statute’s jurisdiction and source version attached.

About this LexChat collection

Statute information is organised from identified legislative sources for professional research. Corrections can be reported to hello@esheria.ai.