An Act To
Maine Legislature, Session 125, LD 1024
Committee Amendment CA_A_H203 (House)
Amends: 33 MRSA §801, 33 MRSA §801-A, 33 MRSA §802, 33 MRSA §803, 33 MRSA §806, 33 MRSA §807-A

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT" (1" to H.P. 760, L.D. 1024, Bill, "An Act To 
Amend the Laws Governing Land Surveyors" 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the 
summary and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 1. 33 MRSA §801, as amended by PL 1999, c. 689, § 1 and affected by §7, is 
repealed. 
Sec. 2. 33 MRSA §801-A is enacted to read: 
§801-A. Definitions 
The systems of plane coordinates that have been established by the National Ocean 
Survey, and the National Geodetic Survey, or their successors, and the State for defining 
and stating the geographic positions of locations of points on the surface of the earth 
within the State are hereafter to be known and designated as the Maine Coordinate 
System of 1927, the Maine Coordinate System of 1983 and the Maine Coordinate System 
of 2000. For the purpose of the use of these systems, the State is divided into the "East 
Zone," "West Zone," "Maine 2000 West Zone," "Maine 2000 Central Zone," and "Maine 
2000 East Zone" as follows. 
1. East Zone. The area included in the following counties constitutes the East Zone: 
Aroostook, Hancock. Knox, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Waldo and Washington. 
2. West Zone. The area included in the following counties constitutes the West 
Zone: Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Lincoln, Oxford, Sagadahoc, 
Somerset and York. 
3. Maine 2000 West Zone. The Maine 2000 West Zone is the area bounded by the 
following: beginning at the point determined by the intersection of the Maine state line 
and the county line between Aroostook and Somerset counties, thence following the 
Somerset County line easterly to the northwest comer of the Somerset and Piscataquis 
county line, thence southerly along this county line to the northeast comer of the Athens 
town line, thence westerly along the town line between Brighton Plantation and Athens to 
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the westerly comer of Athens, and continuing southerly to the southwest comer of the 
town of Athens where it meets the Cornville town line, thence westerly along the 
Cornville - Solon town line to the intersection of the Cornville - Madison town line, 
thence southerly and westerly following the Madison town line to the intersection of the 
Norridgewock - Skowhegan town line. thence southerly along the Skowhegan town line 
to the Fairfield town line, thence easterly along the Fairfield town line to the Clinton town 
line, being determined by the Kennebec River, thence southerly along the Kennebec 
River to the Augusta city line, thence easterly along the city line to the Windsor town 
line, thence southerly along the Augusta - Windsor town line to the northwest comer of 
the Lincoln County line, thence southerly along the westerly Lincoln County line to the 
boundary of the State of Maine as determined by maritime law, thence following the state 
boundary southwesterly to the Maine - New Hampshire state line, thence following the 
state boundary on the westerly side of the State to the point of beginning. 
4. Maine 2000 Central Zone. The Maine 2000 Central Zone is the area bounded by 
the following: beginning at the point determined by the intersection of the Maine state· 
line and the county line between Aroostook and Somerset counties, thence northeasterly 
along the state line to the intersection of the Fort Kent - Frenchville town line, thence 
southerly along this town line to the intersection with the New Canada Plantation - Tl7 
R5 WELS town line, thence continuing southerly along town lines to the northeast comer 
of Penobscot County, thence continuing southerly along the Penobscot County line to the 
intersection of the Woodville - Mattawamkeag town line (being determined by the 
Penobscot River), thence along the Penobscot River to the Enfield - Lincoln town line, 
thence southeasterly along the Enfield - Lincoln town line and the Enfield - Lowell town 
line, thence westerly to the northeast comer of the town of Passadumkeag, thence south-
southeasterly along town lines to the intersection of the Hancock County line, thence 
southerly along the county line to the intersection of the Otis - Mariaville town line, 
thence southerly along the Otis - Mariaville town line to the Ellsworth city line, thence 
southerly along the Ellsworth city line to the intersection of the Surry - Trenton town line, 
thence southerly along the easterly town lines of Surry, Blue Hill, Brooklin, Deer Isle and 
Stonington to the Knox County line, thence following the Knox County line to the 
boundary of the State of Maine as determined by maritime law, thence following the state 
boundary westerly to the intersection of the Sagadahoc - Lincoln county line, thence 
northerly along the easterly boundary of the Maine 2000 West Zone, as defined, to the 
point of beginning. 
5. Maine 2000 East Zone. The Maine 2000 East Zone is the area bounded by the 
following: beginning at the point determined by the intersection of the Maine state line 
and the Fort Kent - Frenchville town line, thence continuing easterly and then southerly 
along the state line to the boundary of the State of Maine as determined by maritime law, 
thence following the state boundary westerly to the intersection of the Knox - Hancock 
county line, thence northerly along the easterly boundary of the Maine 2000 Central 
Zone, as defined, to the point of beginning. 
Sec. 3. 33 MRSA §802, as amended by PL 1999, c. 689, §l and affected by §7, is 
repealed and the following enacted in its place: 
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§802. East, West, Maine 2000 West, Maine 2000 Central and Maine 2000 East zones 
1. East Zone. As established for use in the East Zone, the Maine Coordinate System 
of 1927 or the Maine Coordinate System of 1983 must be named and, in any land 
description in which it is used, must be designated the "Maine Coordinate System of 1927 
East Zone" or "Maine Coordinate System of 1983 East Zone. " 
2. West Zone. As established for use in the West Zone, the Maine Coordinate 
System of 1927 or the Maine Coordinate System of 1983 must be named and, in any land 
description in which it is used, must be designated the "Maine Coordinate System of 1927 
West Zone" or "Maine Coordinate System of 1983 West Zone. " 
3. Maine 2000 West Zone. As established for use in the Maine 2000 West Zone, 
the Maine Coordinate System of 2000 must be named and, in any land description in 
which it is used, must be designated the "Maine Coordinate System of2000 West Zone." 
4. Maine 2000 Central Zone. As established for use in the Maine 2000 Central 
Zone, the Maine Coordinate System of 2000 must be named and, in any land description 
in which it is used, must be designated the "Maine Coordinate System of 2000 Central 
Zone." 
5. Maine 2000 East Zone. As established for use in the Maine 2000 East Zone, the 
Maine Coordinate System of 2000 must be named and, in any land description in which it 
is used, must be designated the "Maine Coordinate System of 2000 East Zone. " 
Sec. 4. 33 MRSA §803, as amended by PL 1999, c. 689, §1 and affected by §7, is 
further amended to read: 
§803. Plane coordinates of a point 
The plane coordinate values for a point on the earth's surface, used to express the 
geographic position or location of such point in the appropriate zone of this system, must 
consist of 2 distances ffi expressed in United States Survey feet and decimal feet or 
international meters and decimals of a foot decimal meters when using the Maine 
Coordinate System of 1927 aRd expressed in meters and decimals of a meter when using .. 
the Maine Coordinate System of 1983 or the Maine Coordinate System of 2000. One of 
these distances, to be known as the "x-coordinate" or "Easting Coordinate," gives the 
position in an east-and-west direction; the other, to be known as the "y-coordinate" or 
"Northing Coordinate," gives the position in a north-and-south direction. These 
coordinates must be made to depend upon and conform to plane rectangular coordinate 
values for the monumented points of the North American Horizontal Geodetic Control 
Network as published by the National Ocean Survey and the National Geodetic Survey, 
or its their successors, and whose plane coordinates have been computed on the systems 
defined in this chapter. Any such station may be used for establishing a survey 
connection to any of the Maine Coordinate Systems. 
Sec. 5. 33 MRSA §806, as repealed and replaced by PL 1981, c. 156, is amended 
to read: 
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§806. Use in making official records of land boundaries 
No coordinates based on eitIref any of the Maine Coordinate System Systems and 
originating from established Federal Geodetic Control Committee of the United States 
Department of Commerce or predecessor or successor agency control points and 
purporting to define the position of a point on a land boundary may be presented to be 
recorded in any public land records or deed records, unless the survey method used for 
the determination of these coordinates is specifically described on the record plan or 
description of the survey. 
Sec. 6. 33 MRSA §807-A, as repealed and replaced by PL 1999, c. 689, §6 and 
affected by § 7, is repealed.' 
SUMMARY 
This amendment strikes and replaces the bill and restores in law the original systems 
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of plane coordinates established by the National Ocean Survey and the National Geodetic 
Survey. The amendment recognizes the Maine 2000 West Zone, Maine 2000 Central 
Zone and Maine 2000 East Zone established by the State and recognized by the National 
Geodetic Survey and National Ocean Survey. 
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