Maine Legislature, Session 121, LD 0631
Committee Amendment CA_A_H95 (House)
Amends: 30-A MRSA §5722, 30-A MRSA §5724

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "~,, to H.P. 461, L.D. 631, Bill, "An 
Act Concerning the Status of the Maine County Commissioners' 
Association 
and 
the 
Maine 
Sheriffs' 
Association 
as 
County 
Advisory Organizations" 
Amend the bill in section 1 in that part designated "S2ruh" 
in the first paragraph in the 7th line (page 1, line 13 in L.D.) 
by striking out the following: "Secretary" and inserting in its 
place the following: 'Treasurer' 
Further amend the bill by inserting after section 1 and 
before the summary the following: 
'Sec. 2. 30-A MRSA §5722, sub-§9, as enacted by PL 1987, c. 
737, Pt. A, §2 and Pt. C, §106 and amended by PL 1989, c. 6, c. 
9, §2 and c. 104, Pt. C, §§8 and 10, is further amended to read: 
9. 
Advisory 
orqanizations. 
Obtain 
the 
services 
of 
municipal advisory organizations. 
The Legislature recognizes the 
Maine Municipal Association as a nonprofit advisory organization 
and declares it to be an instrumentality of its member municipal 
and 
quasi-municipal 
corporations 
with 
its 
assets 
upon 
its 
dissolution to be delivered to the 
See!'e~a!'y Treasurer of State 
to be held in custody for the municipalities of the State. 
A 
municipal advisory organization may receive federal grants or 
contributions for its activities with respect to the solution of 
local problems; and 
Sec. 3. 30-A MRSA §5724, sub-§9, as enacted by PL 1987, c. 
737, Pt. A, §2 and Pt. C, §106 and amended by PL 1989, c. 6, c. 
9, §2 and c. 104, Pt. C, §§8 and 10, is further amended to read: 
9. 
Advisory 
orqanizations. 
educational advisory organizations. 
Obtain 
the 
services 
of 
The Legislature recognizes 
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.. to H.P. 461, L.D. 631 
the Maine School Management Associatiorr'and the Maine School 
Boards 
Association 
as 
nonprofit 
advisory 
organizations 
and 
declares these associations to be instrumentalities of their 
member school administrative units, municipal and quasi-municipal 
corporations with their assets 
upon their dissolution to be 
delivered to the SeeFetaFY Treasurer of State to be held in 
custody for the municipalities of the State. 
An 
educational 
advisory organization may receive federal grants or contributions 
for their activities with respect to the solution of local 
problems. 
A municipality 
may 
provide 
health 
or 
nonpublic school pupils as authorized by 
those services are available to pupils 
school serving the municipality. 
remedial 
services 
to 
this section only if 
attending the public 
Health and remedial services and instructional materials and 
equipment provided for the benefit of nonpublic school pupils 
under this section and the admission of pupils to the nonpublic 
schools must be provided without distinction as to race, creed, 
color, the national origin of the pupils or of their teachers. 
No 
instructional materials or instructional equipment may be 
loaned to pupils in nonpublic schools or their parents unless 
similar 
instructional material 
or 
instructional 
equipment is 
available for pupils in a public school served by a municipality. ' 
SUMMARY 
This 
amendment replaces the Secretary of State with the 
Treasurer of State as the entity designated to hold the assets 
upon dissolution of the Maine County Commissioners' Association 
and 
the 
Maine 
Sheriffs' 
Association. 
It also 
replaces 
the 
Secretary of State with the Treasurer of State as the entity 
designated 
to 
hold 
the 
assets 
for 
the 
Maine 
Municipal 
Association, 
the Maine School Management Association and the 
Maine School Boards Association upon their dissolution in the 
Maine Revised Statutes, Title 30-A, sections 5722 and 5724. 
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