28 USC § 99 - Maine

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identifier: "/us/usc/t28/s99"
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legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "28 USC § 99 - Maine"
title_number: 28
title_name: "JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE"
section_number: "99"
section_name: "Maine"
chapter_number: 5
chapter_name: "DISTRICT COURTS"
part_number: "I"
part_name: "ORGANIZATION OF COURTS"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 881; Pub. L. 95–573, § 2, Nov. 2, 1978, 92 Stat. 2458.)"
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# § 99. Maine

Maine constitutes one judicial district.

Court shall be held at Bangor and Portland.

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**Source Credit**: (June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 881; Pub. L. 95–573, § 2, Nov. 2, 1978, 92 Stat. 2458.)

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 160 (, ; , ; , §§ 1, 3, ; , ).

Changes in arrangement and phraseology were made.

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1978— struck out provision for two separate divisions, (1) the Northern Division comprising the counties of Aroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset, Waldo, and Washington and (2) the Southern Division comprising the counties of Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Oxford, Sagadahoc, and York.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1978 Amendment

Amendment by  effective 180 days after , see , set out as a note under .