An Act To Amend the Town Line between Yarmouth and Cumberland
Maine Legislature, Session 121, LD 1128
Committee: State and Local Government
Sponsors: McKENNEY, TURNER, WOODBURY

12lst MAINE LEGISLATURE 
Legislative Document 
No. 1128 
H.P.831 
House of Representatives, March 4, 2003 
An Act To Amend the Town Line between Yarmouth and 
Cumberland 
Reference to the Committee on State and Local Government suggested and ordered printed. 
Presented by Representative McKENNEY of Cumberland. 
Cosponsored by Senator TURNER of Cumberland and 
Representative: WOODBURY of Yarmouth. 
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. Separation and incorporation. 
The territory described 
in section 2, now within the Town of Yarmouth, Cumberland County, 
being inhabited by Ronald M. and Sally L. Brown, is separated and 
set off from the Town of Yarmouth and incorporated into the Town 
of Cumberland, Cumberland County. 
Sec. 2. 
Territory. 
The 
territory affected 
by 
this 
Act, 
referred to in this Act as "territory," is as follows: 
A certain lot or parcel of land situated in the 
Yarmouth, County of Cumberland and State of Maine, 
and described as following: 
Town of 
bounded 
Beginning at a wooden stake at the most westerly corner of 
property 
of 
Ethel 
M. 
Haskell 
on 
the 
assumed 
easterly 
sideline of the Greely Road: 
Thence North 70 degrees East along land now or formerly of 
Charles Shipman Payson, or Thornhurst Farms, 98 feet, more 
or less, to a stone monument marking the Cumberland-Yarmouth 
town line; 
Thence continuing the same course along said land now or 
formerly of Charles Shipman Payson, or Thornhurst Farms, a 
distance of 1693 feet, 
more or less, 
to a 
stone marker 
marked "Yarmouth-North Yarmouth Town Line"; 
Thence continuing the same course along said land now or 
formerly of Charles Shipman Payson, or Thornhurst Farms, a 
distance of 26 feet, more or less, to a wooden stake on the 
southwesterly sideline of the lot of land conveyed by Ethel 
M. 
Haskell to Central Maine Power Company by deed dated 
October 12, 1955, recorded in Cumberland County Registry of 
Deeds in Book 2269, Page 165: 
Thence southeasterly along the southwesterly sideline of 
said lot of land conveyed to Central Maine Power Company as 
aforesaid a distance of 629 feet, more or less, to a fence 
on 
the northwesterly sideline of the property of Maine 
Central Railroad Company; 
Thence 
in 
a 
general 
southwesterly 
direction 
along 
the 
northwesterly 
sideline 
of 
said 
Maine 
Central 
Railroad 
Company property a distance of 700 feet, more or less, to a 
corner in the fence; 
Thence in a general easterly direction along the northerly 
sideline of said Maine Central Railroad Company property a 
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distance of 1187 feet, more or less, to the assumed easterly 
sideline of said Greely Road; 
Thence in a general northerly and northwesterly direction 
along said Greely Road a distance of 939 feet, more or less, 
to the point of beginning, containing 33 acres, more or less. 
All of the land, as described in 
buildings, 
intertidal 
land, 
submerged 
saltwater ponds and river beds, is part of 
this section, including 
land, 
freshwater 
or 
the territory. 
Sec. 3. Property taxes; municipal services. 
The terri tory remains 
a 
part of the 
Town of Yarmouth for all purposes, 
including 
liabili ties, obligations and the collection and disbursement of 
property taxes, up to the effective date of separation, and the 
Town of Yarmouth shall maintain its customary level of municipal 
services to the territory until that date. 
After the effective 
date of separation, 
the Town of Cumberland shall assess 
and 
collect property taxes 
and provide municipal services to the 
territory. 
SUMMARY 
This bill separates a 33-acre parcel of property from the 
Town of Yarmouth and annexes it to the Town of Cumberland.