An Act To Establish Municipal Cost Components for Unorganized Territory Services To Be Rendered in Fiscal Year 2004-05
Maine Legislature, Session 121, LD 1882
Committee: Taxation

12lst MAINE LEGISLATURE 
Legislative Document 
No. 1882 
H.P. l398 
House of Representatives, February 26, 2004 
An Act To Establish Municipal Cost Components for Unorganized 
Territory Services To Be Rendered in Fiscal Year 2004-05 
(EMERGENCY) 
Reported by Representative LEMOINE of Old Orchard Beach for the Department of Audit 
pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 36, section 1604. 
Reference to the Committee on Taxation suggested and ordered printed under Joint Rule 
218. 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Emergency preamble. Whereas, Acts of the Legislature do not 
become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted 
as emergencies; and 
Whereas, prompt 
determination 
and 
certification 
of 
the 
municipal 
cost 
components 
in 
the 
Unorganized 
Territory 
Tax 
District are necessary to the establishment of a mill rate and 
the levy of the Unorganized Territory Educational and Services 
Tax; and 
Whereas, in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts 
create an emergency within the meaning of the Constitution of 
Maine 
and 
require 
the 
following 
legislation 
as 
immediately 
necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and 
safety; now, therefore, 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. Municipal cost components for services rendered. 
In 
accordance with the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 36, 
chapter 
115, 
the Legislature determines that the net municipal cost 
component 
for 
services 
and 
reimbursements 
to 
be 
rendered in 
fiscal year 2004-05 is as follows: 
Audit - Fiscal Administration 
Education 
Forest Fire Protection 
Human Services - General Assistance 
Property Tax Assessment - Operations 
Computer Assisted Mass Appraisal (CAMA) System 
Maine Land Use Regulation Commission -
Operations 
TOTAL STATE AGENCIES 
County Reimbursements for Services: 
Aroostook 
Franklin 
Hancock 
Kennebec 
Oxford 
Penobscot 
Piscataquis 
$108,207 
11,579,139 
150,000 
78,750 
658,453 
173,000 
223,374 
$12,970,923 
$658,963 
761,079 
106,923 
7,770 
363,481 
722,475 
721, 385 
Somerset 
Washington 
TOTAL COUNTY SERVICES 
TOTAL REQUIREMENTS 
COMPUTATION OF ASSESSMENT 
Requirements 
Less Deductions: 
TOTAL 
TOTAL 
General -
State Revenue Sharing 
Homestead Reimbursement 
Miscellaneous Revenues 
Transfer from Undesignated 
Fund Balance 
Educational -
Lands Reserve Trust 
Tuition - Travel 
Miscellaneous 
Special - Teacher Retirement 
TOTAL DEDUCTIONS 
TAX ASSESSMENT 
660,590 
466,676 
$4,469,342 
$17,440,265 
$17,440,265 
$290,000 
100,000 
50,000 
2,300,000 
$2,740,000 
$100,000 
250,000 
5,000 
200,000 
$555,000 
($3,295,000) 
$14,145,265 
Emergency clause. 
In view of the emergency cited in the 
preamble, this Act takes effect when approved. 
SUMMARY 
This bill establishes municipal cost components for state 
and county services provided to the unorganized territory that 
would 
be 
paid 
for 
by 
a 
municipality. 
The 
municipal 
cost 
components 
constitute 
the 
property 
tax 
for 
the 
unorganized 
territory.