Resolve, Authorizing Certain Land Transactions by the Department of Conservation, Bureau of Parks and Lands
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 2015
Committee Amendment CA_A-SA_A_S612 (Senate)

SENATE AMENDMENT ,A" to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to H.P. 1415, 
L.D. 2015, "Resolve, Authorizing Certain Land Transactions by the Department of 
Conservation, Bureau of Parks and Lands" 
Amend the amendment by inserting after the title the following: 
'Amend the resolve by inserting after the title the following: 
'Mandate preamble. 
This measure requires one or more local units of 
government to expand or modify activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures 
from local revenues but does not provide funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. 
Pursuant to the Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 21, 2/3 of all of the members 
elected to each House have determined it necessary to enact this measure. " 
Further amend the amendment in the first line after the title (page 1, line 12 in 
amendment) by striking out the following: 
"Amend" and inserting in its place the 
following: 'Further amend' 
Further amend the amendment by inserting after section 14 the following: 
'Sec. 15. 
Real estate taxes; transfer to Organized Townships Fund. 
Resolved: That, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, until 90 days 
after adjournment of the Second Regular Session of the 123rd Legislature, the Township 
of Glenwood Plantation and the Town of LaGrange upon receiving property taxes on a 
parcel of land that is transferred by the State on or after July 1, 2006 pursuant to section 1 
shall transmit an amount equal to the property tax collected to the Treasurer of State, who 
shall deposit those funds into the Organized Townships Fund to be expended in 
accordance with the purposes of the fund set forth in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 
12, section 1854; and be it further' 
Further amend the amendment by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part 
letter or section number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
This amendment requires that, until 90 days after adjournment of the Second Regular 
Session of the 123rd Legislature, the Township of Glenwood Plantation and the Town of 
LaGrange upon receiving property taxes on a parcel of land that is transferred by the 
State on or after July 1,2006 pursuant to the resolve shall transmit an amount equal to the 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
SENATE AMENDMENT ,A" to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to H.P. 1415, L.D. 2015 
property tax collected to the Treasurer of State, who shall deposit those funds into the 
Organized Townships Fund to be expended in accordance with the purposes of the fund 
set forth in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 12, section 1854. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
SPONSOREDBY: ______ ~~~~------------
(Senator MARTIN) 
COUNTY: AroostooK 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 04113/06 ;:tk?ae. 
LD 2015 
LR3129(10) 
Resolve, Authorizing Certain Land Transactions by the Department of Conservation, Bureau of Parks 
and Lands 
Fiscal Note for Senate Amendment "A" to Committee Amendment ,~, 
Sponsor: Sen Martin 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Exempted State Mandate 
State Mandate 
New or Expanded Activity 
Unit Affected 
Requiring certain local units of government to collect property taxes on certain 
Municipality 
former publicly owned lands and remitting those amounts to the State Treasurer is a 
state mandate. Pursuant to the Mandate Preamble, a 2/3s vote of the elected 
members of each legislative body exempts the state from the requirement that it pay 
90% of the cost of this mandate 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Costs 
Significant 
Revenue received for the Lands Reserved Trust from stumpage fees on public lands will be lost if those lands become 
private. This amendment replaces that loss to the Trust with revenue from property taxes collected from the new 
property owners and the amendment requires certain local units of government to collect and remit those taxes. If the 
land sales do not occur those property taxes would not exist because the land would not be privately owned. 
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