Resolve, Authorizing the State Tax Assessor To Convey the Interest of the State in a Certain Parcel of Real Estate Located in the City of Auburn
Maine Legislature, Session 121, LD 1807
Committee: Taxation
Sponsors: LEMOINE, STANLEY, McCORMICK, SUSLOVIC

Legislative Document 
No. 1807 
H.P.1329 
House of Representatives, December 22,2003 
Resolve, Authorizing the State Tax Assessor To Convey the Interest 
of the State in a Certain Parcel of Real Estate Located in the City of 
Auburn 
Submitted by the Department of Administrative and Financial Services pursuant to Joint 
Rule 204. 
Received by the Clerk of the House on December 17, 2003. Referred to the Committee on 
Taxation pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to Joint Rule 401. 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Presented by Representative LEMOINE of Old Orchard Beach. 
Cosponsored by Senator STANLEY of Penobscot and 
Representatives: McCORMICK of West Gardiner, McGOWAN of Pittsfield, SUSLOVIC of 
Portland. 
Printed on recycled paper 
Sec. 1. 
State Tax Assessor authorized to convey real estate. 
Resolved: 
That the State Tax Assessor is authorized to convey by 
sale the interest of the State in a parcel of real estate in the 
Ci ty of Auburn formerly owned by Robert W. 
Jones. 
Except as 
otherwise directed in this resolve, the sale must be made to the 
highest bidder subject to the following provisions. 
1. 
Notice of the sale must be published 3 times prior to 
the sale, once each week for 3 consecutive weeks, in a newspaper 
of general circulation in Androscoggin County. 
2. 
The parcel may not be sold for less than the amount 
authorized in this resolve. 
If identical high bids are received, 
the bid postmarked with the earliest date is considered the 
highest bid. 
If bids in the minimum amount recommended in this resolve 
are not received after the notice, the State Tax Assessor may 
sell the property for not less than the minimum amount without 
again asking for bids if the property is sold on or before March 
L 
2005. 
Employees of the Department of Administrative and Financial 
Services, 
Bureau 
of 
Revenue 
Services 
and 
spouses, 
siblings, 
parents 
and children of 
employees 
of 
the 
Bureau of 
Revenue 
Services are barred from acquiring from the State any of the real 
property subject to this resolve. 
Upon receipt of payment as specified in this 
State 
Tax 
Assessor 
shall 
record 
a 
quitclaim 
appropriate registry at no additional charge to 
before sending the deed to the purchaser. 
resolve, the 
deed 
in 
the 
the purchaser 
Abbreviations and plan and lot references are identified in 
the 2001 City of Auburn Valuation book; and be it further 
Sec. 2. Description of parcel. Resolved: 
That the parcel in 
question is Map 219, Lot 175 in the City of Auburn, recorded in 
Book 
946, 
Page 
and 
located 
at 
Fairview 
Avenue, 
approximately halfway between Court Street and Minot Avenue. 
It 
is the same parcel formerly owned by Robert W. Jones, who died on 
August 6, 2001, and identified in a Certificate of Mortgage Lien 
for Repayment of Taxes on Deferred Homestead Property recorded 
May 31, 2002 at Androscoggin County Registry of Deeds, Book 5008, 
Sec. 3. 
Sale to personal representative or to highest bidder. 
Resolved: 
That the State Tax Assessor is directed to sell the 
parcel 
as 
is 
to 
Jeremy 
W. 
Jones, 
duly 
appointed 
personal 
representative 
of 
the 
estate of the parcel's former owner, 
for $57,340.91, plus the 
remediation cost, if any. 
The 
remediation cost is the cost 
incurred by the State of Maine to pay for the remediation of any 
hazard located at the property, including the remediation of any 
environmental 
hazard 
on 
the 
property 
and 
the 
maintenance, 
dismantling or demolition of any unsafe structure located on the 
property and any other costs associated with the disposal of the 
property. 
If Jeremy W. 
Jones does not pay $57,340.91 plus the 
remediation cost within 60 days after the effective date of this 
resolve, the State Tax Assessor is directed to sell the parcel as 
is to the highest bidder. 
The State Tax Assessor may reject any 
and all bids. 
Sale proceeds must be applied first to taxes, 
accrued interest 
and 
costs of sale 
and 
then 
to 
defray 
the 
remediation cost. 
SUMMARY 
This resolve authorizes the State Tax Assessor to convey the 
interest of the State in a certain parcel of tax-acquired real 
estate located in the City of Auburn.