An Act To Establish Municipal Cost Components for Unorganized Territory Services To Be Rendered in Fiscal Year 2013-14
Maine Legislature, Session 126, LD 1228
Committee: Taxation

Legislative Document 
No. 1228 
H.P. 867 
House of Representatives, March 26, 2013 
An Act To Establish Municipal Cost Components for Unorganized 
Territory Services To Be Rendered in Fiscal Year 2013-14 
(EMERGENCY) 
Reported by Representative GOODE of Bangor for the Administrator of the Unorganized 
Territory pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 36, section 1604. 
Reference to the Committee on Taxation suggested and ordered printed pursuant to Joint 
Rule 218. 
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 components 
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 of the 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 2013-14 is as follows: 
Audit - Fiscal Administration 
$212,810
Education 
12,069,217
Forest Fire Protection 
150,000
Human Services - General Assistance 
55,750
Property Tax Assessment - Operations 
948,231
Maine Land Use Planning Commission - 
Operations 
528,612
TOTAL STATE AGENCIES 
$13,964,620
County Reimbursements for Services: 
Aroostook 
$1,025,114
Franklin 
1,258,685
Hancock 
160,407
Kennebec 
10,056
Oxford 
877,519
Penobscot 
996,500
Piscataquis 
887,371
Somerset 
1,412,944
Washington 
812,645
TOTAL COUNTY SERVICES 
$7,441,241
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 
municipal cost components constitute the property tax for the unorganized territory. 
COUNTY TAX INCREMENT FINANCING 
DISTRIBUTIONS FROM FUND 
Tax Increment Financing Payments 
$3,510,000
TOTAL REQUIREMENTS 
$24,915,860
COMPUTATION OF ASSESSMENT 
Requirements 
$24,915,860
Less Deductions: 
General - 
State Revenue Sharing 
$0
Homestead Reimbursement 
90,300
Miscellaneous Revenues 
75,000
Transfer from undesignated fund balance 
2,750,000
TOTAL GENERAL DEDUCTIONS 
$2,915,300
Educational - 
Land Reserved Trust 
$73,400
Tuition/Travel 
119,000
Miscellaneous 
17,500
Special - Teacher Retirement 
191,900
TOTAL EDUCATION DEDUCTIONS 
$401,800
TOTAL DEDUCTIONS 
$3,317,100
TAX ASSESSMENT 
$21,598,791