Resolve, Authorizing the Commissioner of Administrative and Financial Services To Sell or Lease the Interests of the State in \ Certain Real Property Located at 17 School Street in Benedicta, Aroostook County
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 0449
Committee: State and Local Government
Sponsors: BEAUDETTE, SIMPSON, JOY, SHERMAN

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No. 449 
H.P.337 
House of Representatives, Febmary 10, 2009 
Resolve, Authorizing the Commissioner of Administrative and 
Financial Services To Sell or Lease the Interests of the State in 
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Certain Real Property Located at 17 School Street in Benedicta, 
Aroostook County 
Submitted by the Department of Administrative and Financial Services pursuant to Joint 
Rule 204. 
Reference to the Committee on State and Local Government suggested and ordered printed. 
Presented by Representative BEAUDETTE of Biddeford. 
Cosponsored by Senator SIMPSON of Androscoggin and 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Representatives: JOY of Crystal, McFADDEN of Dennysville, Senator: SHERMAN of 
Aroostook. 
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Sec. 1. Authority to convey state property. Resolved: That, notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, the State, by and through the Commissioner of Administrative 
and Financial Services, may: 
1. Enter into a lease or leases or convey by sale the interests of the State in the state 
property described in section 2 with the buildings and improvements, together with all 
appurtenant rights and easements, and all personal property located on that property, 
including vehicles, machinery, equipment and supplies; 
2. 
Negotiate, draft, execute and deliver any documents necessary to settle any 
boundary line discrepancies; 
3. Exercise, pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 23, chapter 3, subchapter 3, 
the power of eminent domain to quiet for all time any possible challenges to ownership of 
the state property; 
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4. Negotiate, draft, execute and deliver any easements or other rights that, in the 
commissioner's discretion, may contribute to the value of a proposed sale or lease of the 
State's interests; and 
5. Release any interests in the state property that, in the commissioner's discretion, do 
not contribute to the value of the remaining state property; and be it further 
Sec. 2. Property interests that may be conveyed. Resolved: That the state 
property authorized to be sold or leased is: 
1. A parcel of land in Benedicta Township occupied by the Benedicta Elementary 
School consisting of approximately 8.34 acres conveyed to the Town of Benedicta School 
District in May 1975 and recorded in the Aroostook County Southern Registry of Deeds, 
Volume 1180, Page 171; and be it further 
Sec. 3. Property to be sold as is. Resolved: 
That the Commissioner of 
Administrative and Financial Services may negotiate and execute leases and purchase and 
sale agreements upon terms the commissioner considers appropriate; however, the state 
property described in section 2 must be sold "as is," with no representations or warranties. 
Title must be transferred by quitclaim deed without covenant or release deed and 
executed by the commissioner; and be it further 
Sec. 4. Exemptions. Resolved: That any lease or conveyance pursuant to this 
resolve is exempt from any statutory or regulatory requirement that the state property 
described in section 2 first be offered to the Maine State Housing Authority or another 
state or local agency; and be it further 
Sec. 5. Appraisal. Resolved: . That the Commissioner of Administrative and 
Financial Services shall have the current market vahie of the state property described in 
section 2 determined by an independent appraiser. The commissioner may list the state 
property for sale or lease with private real estate brokers at the state property's appraised 
value and negotiate any sales or leases, solicit bids, sell directly to purchasers or enter 
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directly into leases with tenants. The commissioner may reject any offers; and be it 
further 
Sec. 6. 
Proceeds. Resolved: 
That any proceeds from the sale or lease of 
unorganized territory property pursuant to this resolve must be deposited into the 
Unorganized Territory Education and Services Fund, as designated by the Commissioner 
of Administrative and Financial Services; and be it further 
Sec. 7. Repeal. Resolved: That this resolve is repealed 5 years from its effective 
date. 
SUMMARY 
This resolve authorizes the State to sell or lease specific land and buildings in the 
unorganized territories that are no longer necessary to the Department of Education and 
directs the proceeds of any sale and lease to the Unorganized Territory Education and 
Services Fund.