An Act To Establish Municipal Cost Components for Unorganized Territory Services To Be Rendered.in Fiscal Year 2010-11
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 1807
Committee: Taxation

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·124th MAINE LEGISLATURE. 
Legislative Document 
No. 1807 
H.P.1294 
House of Representatives, March 4; 2010 
An Act To Establish Municipal Cost Components for Unorganized 
Territory Services To Be Rendered.in Fiscal Year 2010-11 
(EMERGENCY) 
Reported by Representative WATSON of Bath for the Department of Audit pursuant to the 
Maine Revised Statutes, Title 36, section 1604. . 
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Reference to the Committee on Taxation suggested and ordered printed purs'uant to Joint 
Rule 218. 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Emergency preamble. Whereas, acts and resolves 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 cornponents 
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 ofthe 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 2010-11 is as follows: 
Audit - Fiscal Administration 
Education 
ForestFire Protection' 
Human Services - General Assistance 
Property Tax Assessment - Operations 
Mairie Lillld Use Regulation Commission -
Operations 
TOTAL STATE AGENCIES 
.29 
County Reimbursements for Services: 
Aroostook 
Franklin 
Hancock 
Kennebec 
Oxford 
Penobscot 
Piscataquis 
Somerset 
Washington 
TOTAL COUNTY SERVICES 
$198,691 
12,529,594 
93,916 
58,000 
788,218 
525,931 
$14,194,350 
$933,290 
600;521 
158,542 
494,827 
904,838 
1,033,573 
911,530 
782,970 
$5,820,971 
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TOTAL REQUIREMENTS 
COMPUTATION OF ASSESSMENT 
Requirements 
Less Deductions: 
General-
TOTAL 
State Revenue Sharing 
Homestead Reimbursement 
Miscellaneous Revenues 
Educational -
TOTAL 
Land Reserved Trust 
Tuition/Travel 
Miscellaneous 
Special -Teacher Retirement 
TOTAL DEDUCTIONS 
- TAX ASSESSMENT 
$20,015,321 
$20,015,321 
$198,640 
70,000 
50,000 
$318,640 
$61,000 
250,000 
5,000 
250,000 
$566,000 
$884,640 
$19,130,681 
Emergency clause. 
In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this 
legislation 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 
mun.icipal cost components constitute the property tax for the unorganized territory.