Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_127th/billtexts/HP088401.asp
Timestamp: 2020-07-12 19:16:28
Document Index: 325888675

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 2041', '§ 2042', '§ 2043', '§ 2044', '§ 2045', '§ 2046', '§ 2047', '§ 2048', '§ 2049', '§ 2050', '§ 2050', '§ 2050', '§ 2050', '§ 2050', '§ 2050', '§ 2050', '§ 2050', '§ 2050', '§ 2050', '§ 2050']

HP0884, LD 1298, item 1, An Act Relating to the Creation of Public-private Facilities and Infrastructure
§ 2041. Definitions
1. Affected jurisdiction. "Affected jurisdiction" means a county, municipality or unorganized territory in which all or a portion of a qualifying project is located.
2. Comprehensive agreement. "Comprehensive agreement" means an agreement between a contracting person and a responsible governmental entity pursuant to section 2050-C.
3. Contracting person. "Contracting person" means a person who enters into a comprehensive agreement or interim agreement with a responsible governmental entity under this chapter.
4. Develop. "Develop" means to plan, design, develop, lease, acquire, install, construct or expand a qualifying project.
5. Governmental entity. "Governmental entity" means:
6. Interim agreement. "Interim agreement" means an agreement between a contracting person and a responsible governmental entity pursuant to section 2050-D.
7. Lease payment. "Lease payment" means any form of payment, including a land lease, by a governmental entity to a contracting person for the use of a qualifying project.
8. Material default. "Material default" means a default by a contracting person in the performance of duties that jeopardizes adequate service to the public from a qualifying project.
9. Operate. "Operate" means to finance, maintain, improve, equip, modify, repair or operate a qualifying project.
10. Qualifying project. "Qualifying project" means:
A. A ferry, mass transit facility, vehicle parking facility, port facility, power generation facility, fuel supply facility, oil or gas pipeline, water supply facility, public works facility, waste treatment facility, hospital, school, medical or nursing care facility, recreational facility, public building or other similar facility that will be used by a governmental entity for public use, including any structure, parking area, appurtenance and other property required to operate the structure or facility and any technology infrastructure installed in the structure or facility that is essential to the project’s purpose; or
11. Responsible governmental entity. "Responsible governmental entity" means a governmental entity that has the authority to develop or operate a qualifying project.
12. Revenue. "Revenue" means all revenue, income, earnings, user fees, lease payments or other service payments that support the development or operation of a qualifying project, including money received from the Federal Government, a governmental entity or any agency or instrumentality of the Federal Government.
13. Service contract. "Service contract" means a contract between a responsible governmental entity and a contracting person under section 2049.
14. Service payment. "Service payment" means a payment to a contracting person under a service contract.
15. User fee. "User fee" means a rate, fee or other charge imposed by a contracting person for the use of all or part of a qualifying project under a comprehensive agreement.
§ 2042. Declaration of public purpose
§ 2043. Applicability
§ 2044. Authority to enter into agreements
§ 2045. Adoption of guidelines by responsible governmental entities
A. Require the responsible governmental entity to make a representative of the responsible governmental entity available to meet with private entities or persons who are considering submitting a proposal for a qualifying project and provide notice of that representative’s availability to meet with such private entities or persons;
(3) A requirement for posting the notice on the responsible governmental entity's publicly accessible website and adoption of a public notice process; and
§ 2046. Approval required
§ 2047. Qualifying projects; proposals; approval
F. A list of any facilities as defined in section 2050-I that will be affected by the qualifying project and a statement of the private entity's or person's plans to accommodate affected facilities;
G. A statement concerning the private entity's or person's plans for financing the qualified project, including the sources of the private entity's or person's funds and identification of any dedicated revenue source of the proposed debt or equity investment for the private entity or person;
D. The eligibility of the project for accelerated selection, review and documentation timelines under the responsible governmental entity's guidelines adopted pursuant to section 2045, subsection 2, paragraph D;
G. The private entity's or person's good faith effort to comply with the goals of a historically underutilized business plan;
H. The private entity's or person's plans to use contractors that meet pre-bid qualifications according to section 1747 and employ residents of the State for operations and maintenance;
I. For a qualifying project that involves a continuing role beyond design and construction, the private entity's or person's proposed rate of return and opportunities for revenue sharing; and
5. Approval subject to agreement. The approval of a proposal by a responsible governmental entity is subject to the private entity's or person's entering into a comprehensive agreement with the responsible governmental entity and may be subject to the private entity's or person's entering into an interim agreement.
§ 2048. Posting of proposals; public comment; public access to procurement records
A. For a responsible governmental entity described in section 2041, subsection 5, paragraph A or B, by posting on the responsible governmental entity's publicly accessible website; and
B. For a responsible governmental entity described in section 2041, subsection 5, paragraph C, by posting a copy of the proposal on the responsible governmental entity's publicly accessible website or publishing in a newspaper of general circulation in the area in which the qualifying project is to be performed a summary of the proposal and the location where copies of the proposal are available for public inspection.
§ 2049. Service contracts
§ 2050. Affected jurisdictions
§ 2050-A. Dedication and conveyance of public property
§ 2050-B. Powers and duties of contracting person
E. Finance a qualifying project in an amount and according to terms determined by the contracting person. A contracting person may issue debt, equity or other securities or obligations, enter into sale and leaseback transactions and secure any financing with a pledge of security interest in or lien on any or all of the contracting person's property, including all of the contracting person's property interests in the qualifying project; and
4. Additional services. This chapter does not prohibit a contracting person from providing additional services for the qualifying project to persons other than the responsible governmental entity, as long as the provision of additional services does not impair the contracting person's ability to meet the contracting person's commitments to the responsible governmental entity under an applicable interim agreement or comprehensive agreement.
§ 2050-C. Comprehensive agreement
C. Inspection of the qualifying project by the responsible governmental entity to ensure that the contracting person's activities are acceptable to the responsible governmental entity in accordance with the comprehensive agreement;
§ 2050-D. Interim agreements
§ 2050-E. Federal, state and local assistance
§ 2050-F. Performance and payment bonds
§ 2050-G. Material default; remedies
2. Eminent domain. A responsible governmental entity that has the power of eminent domain under state law may exercise that power to acquire a qualifying project in the event of a material default by the contracting person. A person who has provided financing for the qualifying project and the contracting person to the extent of the contracting person's capital investment may participate in the eminent domain proceedings with the standing of a property owner.
5. Payment to secured parties. If a responsible governmental entity terminates a comprehensive agreement, the responsible governmental entity shall collect and pay to secured parties any revenue subject to a lien to the extent necessary to satisfy the contracting person's obligations to secured parties, including maintenance of reserves. The liens must be correspondingly reduced and, when paid off, released.
§ 2050-H. Eminent domain
§ 2050-I. Affected facilities
For the purposes of this section, "facility" means real estate and improvements used principally for commercial purposes.
§ 2050-J. Procurement guidelines