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C. The court may authorize the tenant to temporarily vacate the dwelling unit if the unit must be vacant during necessary repairs. No use and occupation charge shall be incurred by a tenant until such time as the tenant resumes...
D. Before renting a dwelling unit, a landlord shall disclose to a prospective tenant if an adjacent unit or units are currently infested with or are being treated for bedbugs. Upon request from a tenant or prospective tenant, a landlord...
...The tenant's unreasonable failure to completely comply with the pest control measures results in the tenant's being financially responsible for all pest control treatments of the dwelling unit arising from the tenant's failure to comply. [PL 2009...
An agreement under this subsection may not be entered into or maintained if a person over 65 years of age or under 5 years of age resides on the premises. A landlord is not responsible if a tenant who controls...
C. A landlord may commence an action in accordance with section 6030‑A and obtain relief against a tenant who fails to provide reasonable access or comply with reasonable requests for inspection or treatment or otherwise unreasonably fails to comply...
...The rebuttable presumption of retaliation does not apply unless the tenant asserted that tenant's rights pursuant to this section prior to being served with the eviction notice. There is no presumption of retaliation if the action for forcible entry...
...Upon receiving reasonable notice as set forth in section 6025 , including reasons for and scope of the request for access to the premises, a tenant shall grant the landlord of the dwelling unit, the landlord's agent or the landlord...
1. Definition. As used in this section, "dwelling unit" has the same meaning as in section 6021, subsection 1 .
...The landlord shall disclose to the tenant what the cost may be for the tenant's compliance with the requested bedbug inspection or control measure. After making this disclosure, the landlord may provide financial assistance to the tenant to prepare...
B. The court may determine the fair value of the use and occupancy of the dwelling unit by the tenant from the date when the landlord received actual notice of the condition until such time as the condition is repaired...
6. Rights are supplemental. The rights created by this section are supplemental to and in no way limit the rights of a tenant under section 6021 .
A. Asserted the tenant's rights pursuant to section 6015 , 6016 , 6021 , 6030‑D , 6030‑I or 6030‑J ; [PL 2023, c. 594, §6 (AMD); PL 2023, c. 594, §13 (AFF).]
2. Unenforceable provisions. The following lease or tenancy at will agreement or rule provisions for a dwelling unit, as defined in section 6021 , are specifically declared to be unenforceable and in violation of Title 5, section 207 :
...Complained in writing or made a written request, in good faith, to the landlord or the landlord's agent to make repairs on the premises as required by any applicable building, housing or sanitary code, or by section 6021 , or...
9. Lack of Heat. If the landlord fails to comply with the provisions of Title 14, section 6021, subsection 6 , then the purchase of heating fuel by the tenant shall be deemed to be a "cost of compliance" within the...
...tenant to enter into a lease or tenancy at will agreement for a dwelling unit, as defined in section 6021 , in which the tenant agrees to a provision that has the effect of waiving a tenant right established in chapter...
...to provide the notice required under subsection 2 or the falsification of a test or test results by the landlord or other person is a breach of the implied warranty of fitness for human habitation in accordance with section 6021 .
...Maine Supreme Judicial Court reaffirmed the implied warranty of habitability under 14 M.R.S. § 6021. Held that breach of the warranty permits the tenant to abate rent by the difference between fair rental value as warranted and as actually...