Resolve, Authorizing the Lease of the Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site
Maine Legislature, Session 128, LD 1739
Committee: Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
Sponsors: DOW, DEVIN, DAVIS, DILL

Legislative Document
No. 1739
S.P. 638
In Senate, December 22, 2017
Resolve, Authorizing the Lease of the Colonial Pemaquid State 
Historic Site
Approved for introduction by a majority of the Legislative Council pursuant to Joint Rule 
203.
Received by the Secretary of the Senate on December 19, 2017.  Referred to the Committee 
on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed.
HEATHER J.R. PRIEST
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator DOW of Lincoln.
Cosponsored by Representative DEVIN of Newcastle and
Senators: DAVIS of Piscataquis, DILL of Penobscot.
Preamble.  The Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 23 requires that real 
estate held by the State for conservation or recreation purposes may not be reduced or its 
uses substantially altered except on the vote of 2/3 of all members elected to each House.
Whereas, certain real estate authorized for lease by this resolve is under the 
designations in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 12, section 598-A; and
Whereas, the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands within the Department of 
Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry may lease lands with the approval of the 
Legislature in accordance with the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 12, section 1814; and
Whereas, the State of Maine owns the historically significant site known as the 
Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site and the Friends of Colonial Pemaquid, a Maine 
nonprofit corporation, has a mission to preserve the Colonial Pemaquid State Historic 
Site; now, therefore, be it
Sec. 1.  Director of Bureau of Parks and Lands authorized to lease the 
Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site, consisting of historic site land, 
improvements, structures and historical collections, to the Friends of 
Colonial Pemaquid. Resolved: That the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands 
within the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry may lease the historic 
site land and related improvements, structures and historical collections known as the 
Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site in the Town of Bristol in Lincoln County to the 
Friends of Colonial Pemaquid, a nonprofit corporation, to be used for historic 
preservation and to be open to the public for recreation and education purposes. If the 
director leases the site to the Friends of Colonial Pemaquid, the Friends of Colonial 
Pemaquid shall maintain the site in a clean, safe and attractive manner and continue to 
offer historical programs for which the site is known in compliance with the Maine 
Revised Statutes, Title 12, chapter 220 and associated bureau rules. The lease must 
contain a reversion clause specifying that, if the Friends of Colonial Pemaquid does not 
continue to use the Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site for public education, historical 
or cultural purposes, the site will revert to the bureau.
SUMMARY
This resolve authorizes the lease of certain property associated with the Colonial 
Pemaquid State Historic Site from the State to the Friends of Colonial Pemaquid to be 
used for historic preservation and to be open to the public for recreation and education 
purposes. The lease agreement must require that the property and historical collections be 
used exclusively for historic preservation and public education purposes.