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2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 1: STATE HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 24: MAINE TURNPIKE › 23 §1982. Confidentiality of authority records

§1982. Confidentiality of authority records
A log or record identifying the name, address or travel patterns of a patron of the turnpike, whether prepared for enforcement of authority tolls or other purposes of the authority, is for the exclusive use of the authority in the discharge of its duties under this chapter. This material is confidential and is not available to the public except that a law enforcement officer or a representative of an insurance company making a request for specific records in the course of conducting the officer's or representative's business may have access to this material to the extent and in the manner access to such material is afforded under Title 1, chapter 13, subchapter I. The authority may release accident and other incident reports to affected parties and may release information specific to a commuter pass account or commercial billing account to the holder of that account. The authority may disclose patron information, including information gathered by photo-monitoring devices, to other toll administrative agencies that are participating with the authority in multiple-facility, electronic, transportation-related collection systems.   [PL 2001, c. 473, §2 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1995, c. 339, §3 (NEW). PL 2001, c. 473, §2 (AMD).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 1: STATE HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 24: MAINE TURNPIKE › 23 §1983. Interest rate agreements

§1983. Interest rate agreements
The authority is authorized to enter from time to time into agreements with another party, on terms and conditions that the authority determines are necessary or convenient, in which the authority agrees to make a payment to, or to receive a payment from, the other party based on a comparison at a future date between an interest rate specified on the date of the agreement and a rate derived on or about that future date from an interest rate index. The authority is authorized to enter into any credit enhancement or liquidity agreement on terms and conditions that the authority determines are necessary or convenient for carrying out this section.   [PL 2003, c. 111, §1 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 2003, c. 111, §1 (NEW).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 201: GENERAL PROVISIONS › 23 §2001. Organized plantations have same liability and powers as towns

§2001. Organized plantations have same liability and powers as towns
Organized plantations have like powers and are subject to like liabilities and penalties as towns, respecting ways. Their assessors have like powers and shall perform like duties as municipal officers of towns, respecting them.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 201: GENERAL PROVISIONS › 23 §2002. Damages; recovery

§2002. Damages; recovery
A person entitled to receive payment of damages or costs may, after 30 days from demand on the treasurer of the county or town or on the party liable therefor, recover them in a civil action.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 201: GENERAL PROVISIONS › 23 §2003. Title of purchaser at assessment sale

§2003. Title of purchaser at assessment sale
Purchasers of land sold for nonpayment of assessments for opening and making roads have no claim against the county for any defect in the title under such sale, notwithstanding any irregularities in the proceedings or failure to comply with the law under which the sales were made. Deeds given pursuant to sales made for nonpayment of such assessments vest in the grantee the title of the county to the lands sold, subject to the conditions of sale, and no more.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 201: GENERAL PROVISIONS › 23 §2004. Part owner may redeem

§2004. Part owner may redeem
Any person having a legal interest in a tract so advertised, sold or forfeited may redeem his interest by paying within the times prescribed the amount so required to discharge the claim thereon. The rate of interest upon unpaid assessments by county commissioners for opening and making roads shall be 6% a year, commencing at the expiration of one year from the date of the assessments, except when otherwise provided.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 201: GENERAL PROVISIONS › 23 §2005. Notice to Department of Transportation of change of location

§2005. Notice to Department of Transportation of change of location
Whenever the location of any state, state aid or town way that was designated as a 3rd class highway at the time the 3rd class highway designations were rescinded is changed, added to, discontinued or a new location is established within a county, the county commissioners of said county shall place on file the description of such change and shall notify the Department of Transportation of such change with an accurate description of the courses and distances within 3 months from such action. Whenever the department has previous record of such action, no notification by the county commissioners to the department shall be deemed necessary.   [PL 1971, c. 593, §22 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1971, c. 593, §22 (AMD).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 203: LAYING OUT, ALTERING OR DISCONTINUING HIGHWAYS › 23 §2051. Power of commissioners

§2051. Power of commissioners
1.  Layout, maintenance and discontinuance of roads in unorganized areas.
County commissioners may lay out, alter, close for maintenance or discontinue highways within the unorganized areas of their counties and grade hills in such a highway. The county commissioners may close a county road for maintenance and preserve the right-of-way for the use of abutting landowners, any others using that way for access to their property and public utilities and corporations with facilities legally located within that way, at their own risk. At a regular session of the commissioners, responsible persons may present a written petition describing a way and stating that the location, alteration, grading or closing for maintenance or discontinuance of that way, in whole or in part, or an alternative action, is desired. The commissioners may act upon the petition, conforming substantially to the description without adhering strictly to its bounds.
[PL 1997, c. 327, §1 (NEW).]
2.  Closing roads in unorganized areas for the winter.
The county commissioners may close any county road in the unorganized areas of their county under the same conditions and following the same procedure established in section 2953, subsections 1 to 4 for the closure of roads in municipalities by the municipal officers, except that the county commissioners approve the order closing a road and may annul, alter or modify any such order. A copy of the order must be filed with the county clerk or county administrator. Any person may appeal from a decision of the county commissioners to close a county road for the winter in the same manner as provided in Title 17, section 2852.
[PL 1997, c. 327, §1 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1965, c. 168 (AMD). PL 1975, c. 711, §1 (AMD). PL 1997, c. 327, §1 (RPR).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 203: LAYING OUT, ALTERING OR DISCONTINUING HIGHWAYS › 23 §2052. Notice

§2052. Notice
Being satisfied that the petitioners are responsible and that an inquiry into the merits is expedient, the county commissioners shall cause 30 days' notice to be given of the time and place of their meeting by posting copies of the petition, with their order thereon, in 3 public places in each town in which any part of the way is, by serving one on the Department of Transportation and serving one on the clerks of such towns and publishing it in some newspaper, if any, in the county. The fact that notice has been so given, being proved and entered of record, shall be sufficient for all interested, and evidence thereof.   [PL 1971, c. 593, §22 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1971, c. 593, §22 (AMD).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 203: LAYING OUT, ALTERING OR DISCONTINUING HIGHWAYS › 23 §2053. Costs

§2053. Costs
When their decision is against the prayer of the petitioners, the county commissioners shall order them to pay to the treasurer of the county, at a time fixed, all expenses incurred on account of it, and if they are not then paid, they shall issue a warrant of distress against the petitioners therefor.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 203: LAYING OUT, ALTERING OR DISCONTINUING HIGHWAYS › 23 §2054. Proceedings; return; durable monuments erected

§2054. Proceedings; return; durable monuments erected
The county commissioners shall meet at the time and place appointed and view the way, and there, or at a place in the vicinity, hear the parties interested. If they judge the way to be of common convenience and necessity or that any existing way shall be altered, graded or discontinued, they shall proceed to perform the duties required; make a correct return of their doings, signed by them, accompanied by an accurate plan of the way, and state in their return when it is to be done the names of the persons to whom damages are allowed, the amount allowed to each and when to be paid. When the way has been finally established and open to travel, they shall cause durable monuments to be erected at the angles thereof.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 203: LAYING OUT, ALTERING OR DISCONTINUING HIGHWAYS › 23 §2055. Return filed; appeal

§2055. Return filed; appeal
The return of the commissioners, made at their next regular statute session after the hearing provided for in section 2054, shall be placed on file and remain in the custody of their clerk for inspection without record. The case shall be continued to their next regular term of record, and at any time on or before the 3rd day thereof, if no appeal from the location be taken, all persons aggrieved by their estimate of damages shall file their notice of appeal. If no such notice is then presented or pending, the proceedings shall be closed, recorded and become effectual; all claims for damages not allowed by them be forever barred; and all damages awarded under sections 2051 to 2061, 2101, 2151 and 2152 paid out of the county treasury except as provided in section 2101. If an appeal from the location be taken in accordance with section 2063, then notice of appeal on damages may be filed with the clerk of the county commissioners within 60 days after the final decision of the appellate court in favor of such way as has been certified to him, to the Superior Court in the county where the land is situated, which court shall determine the same in the same manner as is provided in section 2058, when no appeal on location is taken.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 203: LAYING OUT, ALTERING OR DISCONTINUING HIGHWAYS › 23 §2056. Damages; increase

§2056. Damages; increase
When a notice of appeal for increase of damages is presented within the time allowed, the case shall be further continued until a final decision respecting damages is made. If the county commissioners then are of opinion that their proceedings, or any part thereof, ought not to take effect, subject to such damages as have been assessed, they shall enter a judgment that the prayer of the petitioners or any part thereof, designating what part, is not granted for that reason. Upon such judgment no damages shall be allowed for that part of the prayer of the petitioners not granted, but the costs shall be paid by the county; or if of opinion that such increase of damages should prevent a confirmation of a part or parts only of their proceedings, they shall designate such part or parts, and enter judgment accordingly; and the whole proceedings shall be recorded and become effectual. This section shall not apply when a location has been determined by a committee of the Superior Court upon appeal from the decision of the county commissioners thereon. In such case, proceedings regarding the location shall become effectual as if no appeal for increase of damages had been taken.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 203: LAYING OUT, ALTERING OR DISCONTINUING HIGHWAYS › 23 §2057. -- estimation and award

§2057. -- estimation and award
If any person's property is damaged by laying out, altering or discontinuing a county highway, the county commissioners shall estimate the amount, and in their return state the share of each separately. Damages shall be determined as if the land were taken for highway purposes under chapter 3. Damages shall be allowed to the owners of reversions and remainders and to tenants for life and for years in proportion to their interests in the estate taken. Said commissioners shall not order such damages to be paid, nor shall any right thereto accrue to the claimant, until the land over which the highway or alteration is located has been entered upon and possession taken for the purpose of construction or use.   [PL 1975, c. 711, §§ 2, 3 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1975, c. 431, §10 (AMD). PL 1975, c. 711, §§2,3 (AMD).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 203: LAYING OUT, ALTERING OR DISCONTINUING HIGHWAYS › 23 §2058. -- appeals

§2058. -- appeals
Any person aggrieved by the estimate of damages by the county commissioners, on account of the laying out or discontinuing of a way, may appeal therefrom, at any time within 30 days after the commissioners' return is made, to the Superior Court, in the county where the land is situated, which court shall determine the same by a committee of reference if the parties so agree, or by a verdict of its jury, and shall render judgment for the damages recovered, and judgment for costs in favor of the party entitled thereto, and shall issue execution for the costs only. The appellant shall file notice of his appeal with the county commissioners within the time above limited, and shall include in the complaint a statement setting forth substantially the facts, upon which the case shall be tried like other cases. The clerk shall certify the final judgment of the court to the county commissioners, who shall enter the same of record and order the damages therein recovered to be paid as provided in section 2057. The party prevailing recovers costs to be taxed and allowed by the court, except that they shall not be recovered by the party claiming damages, but by the other party, if on such appeal by either party, said claimant fails to recover a greater sum as damages than was allowed to him by the commissioners. The committee shall be allowed a reasonable compensation for their services to be fixed by the court upon the presentation of their report and paid from the county treasury upon the certificate of the clerk of courts.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 203: LAYING OUT, ALTERING OR DISCONTINUING HIGHWAYS › 23 §2059. Removing growth and opening way

§2059. Removing growth and opening way
The owners of land taken under sections 2051 to 2060 shall be allowed not exceeding one year after the proceedings regarding the location are finally closed to take off timber, wood or any erection thereon. A time not exceeding 2 years shall be allowed for making and opening the way.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 203: LAYING OUT, ALTERING OR DISCONTINUING HIGHWAYS › 23 §2060. Discontinuance where new state highway

§2060. Discontinuance where new state highway
1.  General procedures.
When the Department of Transportation has constructed a highway over substantially the same route as that of a county or town way and has recorded the plans of that highway in the registry of deeds, the county commissioners or municipal officers may, on their own motion, after notice and hearing, proceed to alter or discontinue the portion of that way not within the limits of the highway. The county commissioners or municipal officers shall give notice and proceed as provided in this chapter or chapter 304, as applicable, including serving any public utility having facilities located in that portion to be discontinued. Notice to abutters must include notice that all or a portion of the discontinued roadway may pass to the abutters unless an exception in the plans and order of discontinuance is requested. Any aggrieved person may appeal as provided in the applicable chapter. The plans prepared by the department and recorded in the registry of deeds must be referred to in describing those portions of the county or town way to be discontinued. The department shall prepare the description of the discontinuance order upon the request of the county commissioners or municipal officers.
[PL 1999, c. 188, §2 (NEW).]
2.  Effect and exceptions.
Upon discontinuance, all interests of the county or municipality pass to the abutting property owners to the center of the way, including any public easement, in accordance with section 3026‑A. When the Department of Transportation is an abutting owner, then the interests in the way pass to the property owner opposite the department's ownership in accordance with a plan showing the right-of-way line established for the new highway location by the department. The plan must be referenced in the order of discontinuance.
[PL 2015, c. 464, §1 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1971, c. 593, §22 (AMD). PL 1975, c. 711, §4 (AMD). PL 1999, c. 188, §2 (RPR). PL 2015, c. 464, §1 (AMD).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 203: LAYING OUT, ALTERING OR DISCONTINUING HIGHWAYS › 23 §2061. Discontinuance before damages paid; proceedings

§2061. Discontinuance before damages paid; proceedings
When the way is discontinued before the time limited for the payment of damages, the commissioners may revoke their order of payment, and estimate the damages actually sustained and order them paid. Any person aggrieved may have them assessed by a committee or jury as provided.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 203: LAYING OUT, ALTERING OR DISCONTINUING HIGHWAYS › 23 §2062. Same petition for towns, plantations or outside lands; appeals (REPEALED)

§2062. Same petition for towns, plantations or outside lands; appeals
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1975, c. 711, §5 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 203: LAYING OUT, ALTERING OR DISCONTINUING HIGHWAYS › 23 §2063. Hearings; appeals; stay

§2063. Hearings; appeals; stay
Parties interested may appear, jointly or severally, at the time of hearing before the commissioners on a petition for laying out, altering, grading or discontinuing a highway. Any such party may appeal from their decision thereon within 30 days after it has been placed on file to the Superior Court in said county, which appeal may be prosecuted by him or by any other party who so appeared. All further proceedings before the commissioners shall be stayed until a decision is made in the appellate court.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 203: LAYING OUT, ALTERING OR DISCONTINUING HIGHWAYS › 23 §2064. Proceedings on appeal

§2064. Proceedings on appeal
If no person appears to prosecute the appeal provided for in section 2063, the judgment of the commissioners may be affirmed. If the appellant appears, the court may appoint a committee of 3 disinterested persons, who shall be sworn, and if one of them dies, declines or becomes interested, the court may appoint some suitable person in his place. They shall give such notice as the court has ordered, view the route, hear the parties and make their report to the court within 60 days or such further time as the court allows after their appointment, whether the judgment of the commissioners should be in whole or in part affirmed or reversed; which, being accepted and judgment thereon entered, shall forthwith be certified to the clerk of the commissioners.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 203: LAYING OUT, ALTERING OR DISCONTINUING HIGHWAYS › 23 §2065. Judgment on appeal

§2065. Judgment on appeal
If the judgment of the commissioners in favor of laying out, grading or altering a way, as prayed for, is wholly reversed on appeal, they shall proceed no further. In all cases when the judgment of the commissioners is reversed on appeal, no petition praying substantially for the same thing shall be entertained by them for 2 years thereafter. If their judgment is affirmed in whole or in part, they shall carry into effect the judgment of the appellate court. In all cases they shall carry into full effect the judgment of the appellate court in the same manner as if made by themselves. The party appealing or prosecuting shall pay the costs incurred since the appeal, if so adjudged by the appellate court, which may allow costs in such cases to the prevailing party, to be paid out of the county treasury. The committee provided for in section 2064 shall be allowed a reasonable compensation for their services, to be fixed by the court upon the presentation of their report and paid from the county treasury upon the certificate of the clerk of courts. The costs allowed the prevailing party and the fees of the committee shall be collected as provided in section 2053. This section shall not apply to any case where the judgment has been reversed on account of informality in the proceedings.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 203: LAYING OUT, ALTERING OR DISCONTINUING HIGHWAYS › 23 §2066. Committee sworn

§2066. Committee sworn
All such committees provided for in section 2064, whether agreed on or appointed on appeal from the county commissioners, may be sworn at any time before viewing the route and hearing the parties.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 203: LAYING OUT, ALTERING OR DISCONTINUING HIGHWAYS › 23 §2067. Paths to great ponds in unorganized territory

§2067. Paths to great ponds in unorganized territory
The county commissioners of any county may lay out, alter or discontinue paths or trails, for pedestrian use only, in the unorganized territory of the county which will provide a right of access to great ponds, provided a request therefor is made by petition signed by not less than 40 residents of said county. Such trails or paths shall not exceed 10 feet in width or one mile in length. Sections 2051 to 2059, where not inconsistent with this section, shall apply to the proceedings under this section.   [PL 1965, c. 96 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1965, c. 96 (NEW).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 203: LAYING OUT, ALTERING OR DISCONTINUING HIGHWAYS › 23 §2068. Limited-user highways (REPEALED)

§2068. Limited-user highways
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1967, c. 240 (NEW). PL 1969, c. 313 (AMD). PL 1971, c. 593, §22 (AMD). PL 1973, c. 20 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 205: FIXING OF BOUNDARIES OR LOCATIONS › 23 §2101. Lost or doubtful boundaries

§2101. Lost or doubtful boundaries
When the true boundaries of highways or town ways duly located, or of which the location is lost, or which can only be established by user, are doubtful, uncertain or lost, the county commissioners of the county wherein such highway or town way is located, upon petition of the municipal officers of the town wherein the same lies, shall, after such notice thereon as is required for the location of new ways, proceed to hear the parties, examine said highway or town way, locate and define its limits and boundaries by placing stakes on side lines at all apparent intersecting property lines and at intervals of not more than 100 feet and cause durable monuments to be erected at the angles thereof at the expense of the town wherein said highway or town way lies, make a correct return of their doings, signed by them, accompanied by an accurate plan of the way. If any real estate is damaged by said action, they shall award damages to the owner as in laying out new highways, in the case of highways to be paid by the county and in the case of town ways to be paid by the town. Their return, made at the next regular statute session after the hearing, shall be placed on file and the case shall be continued to await a final decision respecting damages. Sections 2055 and 2056 shall be applicable to appeals for increase of damages under this section. Said municipal officers shall maintain all highway or town way monuments and replace them forthwith when destroyed. If any appeal for increase of damages is taken and the commissioners are of opinion that their proceedings or any part thereof ought not to take effect, they shall enter a judgment that the prayer of the original petitioners or any part thereof, designating what part, is not granted for that reason. Upon such judgment no damages shall be allowed for that part of the prayer of the petitioners not granted, but the costs shall be paid by the county.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 205: FIXING OF BOUNDARIES OR LOCATIONS › 23 §2102. Lost or disregarded locations; stay

§2102. Lost or disregarded locations; stay
When a highway is laid out through a town and an agent appointed by the county commissioners to open and make it, and the record location thereof cannot be found on the face of the earth or consistently applied thereto or said agent is not making said highway according to the record location, the municipal officers or town agent may file a complaint in the Superior Court setting forth the facts and praying an injunction to stay the proceedings of said road agent. The court shall issue a summary notice to said road agent to appear before it to answer said complaint and on a hearing of the parties may issue a temporary injunction upon such terms and conditions as it deems reasonable. Subsequent proceedings on the complaint shall be similar to proceedings in other civil actions in which equitable relief is sought.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 205: FIXING OF BOUNDARIES OR LOCATIONS › 23 §2103. Lost or unrecorded boundaries

§2103. Lost or unrecorded boundaries
When a highway survey has not been properly recorded or preserved or the termination and boundaries cannot be ascertained, the select board or municipal officers of any municipality may use and control for highway purposes 1 1/2 rods on each side of the center of the traveled portion of such way.   [PL 2021, c. 275, §7 (AMD).]
When any real estate is damaged by the use and control for highway purposes of such land outside the existing improved portion and within the limits of 1 1/2 rods on each side of the center of the traveled portion, they shall award damages to the owner as provided in section 3029.   [PL 2015, c. 494, Pt. A, §27 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1971, c. 288 (NEW). PL 2015, c. 494, Pt. A, §27 (AMD). PL 2021, c. 275, §7 (AMD).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 207: ROADS IN TWO OR MORE COUNTIES › 23 §2151. Call of meeting; notices

§2151. Call of meeting; notices
When a petition is presented respecting a way in 2 or more counties, the commissioners receiving the petition, being satisfied as aforesaid, may call a meeting of the commissioners of all the counties, to be held at a time and place named, by causing an attested copy of such petition and of their order thereon to be served upon their chairmen. They shall give notice of such meeting by causing a like copy to be published in the state paper and in one paper, if any, printed in every such county, and by posting it in 3 public places in each town interested and serving it on the clerk thereof. These notices shall be posted, served and published 30 days before the time of meeting.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 207: ROADS IN TWO OR MORE COUNTIES › 23 §2152. Proceedings

§2152. Proceedings
Each county must be represented at such meeting by a majority of its commissioners. A majority of those present may decide upon the whole matter. The duty of carrying that judgment into effect shall be performed in each county by its own commissioners in the manner respecting ways wholly within it. When each county is not so represented, those present may adjourn the meeting to another time.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 207: ROADS IN TWO OR MORE COUNTIES › 23 §2153. Appeals

§2153. Appeals
When proceedings have been had by the county commissioners on a petition for laying out, altering, grading or discontinuing a way in 2 or more counties, an appeal may be taken in the manner provided in case of a way wholly in one county.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 207: ROADS IN TWO OR MORE COUNTIES › 23 §2154. Proceedings on appeal

§2154. Proceedings on appeal
When an appeal is taken as provided for in section 2153, it shall be filed with the commissioners of, and subsequent proceedings shall be had in, the county where proceedings originated, and the commissioners with whom such appeal is filed shall immediately give notice of such appeal to the commissioners of all the counties interested, and the clerk of courts shall certify the final judgment of court to the commissioners of all said counties.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 209: NEGLECT OR DELAY (REPEALED) › 23 §2202. Action when town fails; expenses (REPEALED)

§2202. Action when town fails; expenses
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1975, c. 711, §6 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 211: TOLL HOUSES (REPEALED) › 23 §2251. Injury or attempt to pass without toll (REPEALED)

§2251. Injury or attempt to pass without toll
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1981, c. 456, §A79 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 213: FERRIES (REPEALED) › Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS › 23 §2301. Establishment; tolls (REPEALED)

§2301. Establishment; tolls
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1981, c. 456, §A80 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 213: FERRIES (REPEALED) › Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS › 23 §2302. Unlawful operation; penalty (REPEALED)

§2302. Unlawful operation; penalty
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1981, c. 456, §A80 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 213: FERRIES (REPEALED) › Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS › 23 §2303. Eminent domain (REPEALED)

§2303. Eminent domain
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1981, c. 456, §A80 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 213: FERRIES (REPEALED) › Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS › 23 §2304. Jurisdiction of Somerset commissioners (REPEALED)

§2304. Jurisdiction of Somerset commissioners
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1981, c. 456, §A80 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 213: FERRIES (REPEALED) › Subchapter 2: FERRYMAN › 23 §2351. License; bond (REPEALED)

§2351. License; bond
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1981, c. 456, §A80 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 213: FERRIES (REPEALED) › Subchapter 2: FERRYMAN › 23 §2352. Action on bond (REPEALED)

§2352. Action on bond
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1981, c. 456, §A80 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 213: FERRIES (REPEALED) › Subchapter 2: FERRYMAN › 23 §2353. Neglect of duty (REPEALED)

§2353. Neglect of duty
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1981, c. 456, §A80 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 213: FERRIES (REPEALED) › Subchapter 3: CARE AND EQUIPMENT › 23 §2401. Steam or horse ferry (REPEALED)

§2401. Steam or horse ferry
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1977, c. 363, §3 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 213: FERRIES (REPEALED) › Subchapter 3: CARE AND EQUIPMENT › 23 §2402. -- Forfeit of license (REPEALED)

§2402. -- Forfeit of license
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1977, c. 363, §3 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 213: FERRIES (REPEALED) › Subchapter 3: CARE AND EQUIPMENT › 23 §2403. Safe boats required; prompt attendance (REPEALED)

§2403. Safe boats required; prompt attendance
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1977, c. 363, §3 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 213: FERRIES (REPEALED) › Subchapter 3: CARE AND EQUIPMENT › 23 §2404. Substitution of safe boats (REPEALED)

§2404. Substitution of safe boats
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1977, c. 363, §3 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 213: FERRIES (REPEALED) › Subchapter 3: CARE AND EQUIPMENT › 23 §2405. Piers sunk to guide boats at ferries (REPEALED)

§2405. Piers sunk to guide boats at ferries
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1977, c. 363, §3 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 213: FERRIES (REPEALED) › Subchapter 3: CARE AND EQUIPMENT › 23 §2406. Leveling of ice and repair of way in winter (REPEALED)

§2406. Leveling of ice and repair of way in winter
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1981, c. 456, §A80 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 2: COUNTY HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 213: FERRIES (REPEALED) › Subchapter 3: CARE AND EQUIPMENT › 23 §2407. Obstruction to ferries (REPEALED)

§2407. Obstruction to ferries
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1977, c. 363, §3 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 1: ROAD COMMISSIONER › 23 §2701. Powers and duties

§2701. Powers and duties
The road commissioner, under the direction of a majority of the members of the select board, has charge of the repairs of all highways and bridges within the towns and has authority to employ the necessary personnel and equipment and purchase material for the repair of highways and bridges. The road commissioner shall give bond to the satisfaction of the select board and is responsible to the select board for the expenditure of money and discharge of the road commissioner's duties generally. In the absence of a statute, charter provision or ordinance to the contrary, any decision involving the duties and responsibilities of the road commissioner must be made by a majority of the members of the select board, whose decision is final. The road commissioner's compensation must be such sum as the legislative body votes annually. The road commissioner shall render to the select board monthly statements of the road commissioner's expenditures and may not receive any money from the treasury, except on the order of the select board.   [PL 2021, c. 275, §8 (AMD).]
If a majority of the members of the select board determines that a condition exists in any town way that creates a hazard and renders the way unsafe for travelers with motor vehicles, the select board shall give written notice to the road commissioner of this condition and order the road commissioner to eliminate it or take interim measures to protect the public within 24 hours. If the road commissioner fails to act as directed by the select board, a majority of the members of the select board may enter contracts or take any other steps necessary to eliminate the safety hazard.   [PL 2021, c. 275, §8 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1985, c. 80 (AMD). PL 2021, c. 275, §8 (AMD).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 1: ROAD COMMISSIONER › 23 §2702. Regular inspections

§2702. Regular inspections
Road commissioners shall go over the roads in their towns, or cause it to be done, in April, May, June, August, September, October and November in each year, remove the loose obstructions to the public travel and, whenever so directed by the select board, remove all shrubbery and bushes growing within the limits of highways, not planted or cultivated therein for the purpose of profit or ornamentation, having care for the proper preservation of shade trees, and repair such defects as may occur from time to time, rendering travel dangerous, or they shall give notice of such defects to the municipal officers under a penalty of $5 for neglect of such duty.   [PL 2021, c. 275, §9 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 2021, c. 275, §9 (AMD).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 1: ROAD COMMISSIONER › 23 §2703. Account of expenditures

§2703. Account of expenditures
The road commissioner shall keep accurate accounts, showing in detail all moneys paid out by him, to whom and for what purpose. He shall settle his accounts on or before the 20th day of February, annually, and the same shall be reported in the annual town report in detail.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 1: ROAD COMMISSIONER › 23 §2704. Contracts for opening or repairing ways

§2704. Contracts for opening or repairing ways
Towns may authorize their road commissioners or other persons to make contracts for opening or repairing their ways.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 1: ROAD COMMISSIONER › 23 §2705. Appropriation insufficient

§2705. Appropriation insufficient
When the amount appropriated is not sufficient to repair or maintain the ways, a road commissioner may, with the written consent of the municipal officers, pay an amount not exceeding 15% of the amount so appropriated in addition to the amount appropriated.   [PL 2009, c. 7, Pt. D, §1 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1991, c. 272 (AMD). PL 2009, c. 7, Pt. D, §1 (AMD).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 2: HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES ON TOWN LINES › 23 §2751. Division by municipal officers

§2751. Division by municipal officers
When a way is established on a line between towns, their municipal officers shall divide it crosswise and assign to each town its portion thereof by metes and bounds, which, within one year thereafter, being accepted by each town at a legal meeting, renders each town liable in the same manner as if the way were wholly within the town. When a division of it is not so made, the select board of either town may petition the county commissioners, who shall give notice by causing a copy of such application with their order thereon appointing a time and place of hearing to be served upon the clerk of each town 30 days, or by causing it to be published in some newspaper printed in the county for 3 weeks, previous to the time appointed, and after hearing the parties, they may make such division.   [PL 2021, c. 275, §10 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 2021, c. 275, §10 (AMD).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 2: HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES ON TOWN LINES › 23 §2752. Division by commissioners

§2752. Division by commissioners
A highway may be laid out on the line between towns, part of its width being in each, and the commissioners may then make such division of it and enter the same of record, and each town shall be liable in all respects as if the way assigned to it were wholly in the town.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 2: HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES ON TOWN LINES › 23 §2753. Bridges crossing town line

§2753. Bridges crossing town line
Whenever a highway located after the first day of January, 1906 crosses any river which divides towns, the expense of constructing, maintaining and repairing any bridge across such river shall be borne by such towns in proportion to their last state valuation prior to such location. This section shall not apply to bridges built or rebuilt under sections 353 and 355.   [PL 1989, c. 502, Pt. A, §90 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1981, c. 470, §A138 (AMD). PL 1989, c. 502, §A90 (AMD).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 3: PUBLIC LANDINGS AND PARKING PLACES › 23 §2801. Layout, alteration or discontinuance; public landings

§2801. Layout, alteration or discontinuance; public landings
Towns may lay out public or common landings and may alter or discontinue said landings whether laid out under chapters 301 to 315 or now or hereafter established by dedication or otherwise. All procedure shall be in substance the same as is provided by law in the case of town ways.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 3: PUBLIC LANDINGS AND PARKING PLACES › 23 §2802. -- parking places

§2802. -- parking places
Towns and cities may lay out land within their corporate limits for use as public parking places for motor and other vehicles and may alter or discontinue such use. All procedure including assessment of damages and appeal therefrom shall be the same as is provided by general law for laying out, altering and discontinuing town and city ways.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 4: STREETS FOR SLIDING › 23 §2851. Designation

§2851. Designation
Municipal officers may designate by appropriate signs public streets, roads or sidewalks whereon persons may slide with any vehicle. They may restrict any traffic on such public streets, roads or sidewalks and anyone violating such restrictions shall be punished by a fine of $5 for each offense. Police officers and constables shall enforce this section.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 4: STREETS FOR SLIDING › 23 §2852. Record

§2852. Record
When streets, roads or sidewalks have been so designated under section 2851, the municipal officers shall cause such designation and such reasonable restrictions as they may adopt to be recorded in the records of the town and their action shall be in force until modified or annulled by like authority.
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 5: RAILROADS › 23 §2901. Land taken from railroad; notice and hearing (REPEALED)

§2901. Land taken from railroad; notice and hearing
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1975, c. 711, §§6-A (AMD). PL 1989, c. 398, §1 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 5: RAILROADS › 23 §2902. Location of railroad crossings; expense; appeals (REPEALED)

§2902. Location of railroad crossings; expense; appeals
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1971, c. 593, §12 (RPR). PL 1989, c. 398, §1 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 5: RAILROADS › 23 §2903. Maintenance of railroad crossings already laid out (REPEALED)

§2903. Maintenance of railroad crossings already laid out
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1971, c. 593, §§19,20 (AMD). PL 1987, c. 141, §B20 (AMD). PL 1989, c. 398, §1 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 5: RAILROADS › 23 §2904. Recording adjudications of Department of Transportation (REPEALED)

§2904. Recording adjudications of Department of Transportation
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1971, c. 593, §19 (AMD). PL 1989, c. 398, §1 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 5: RAILROADS › 23 §2905. Crossing of public ways (REPEALED)

§2905. Crossing of public ways
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1981, c. 456, §A81 (NEW). PL 1989, c. 398, §1 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 5: RAILROADS › 23 §2906. Ways raised or lowered; course altered (REPEALED)

§2906. Ways raised or lowered; course altered
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1981, c. 456, §A81 (NEW). PL 1989, c. 398, §1 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 5: RAILROADS › 23 §2907. Discontinuance of railroad crossings (REPEALED)

§2907. Discontinuance of railroad crossings
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1981, c. 456, §A81 (NEW). PL 1989, c. 398, §1 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 5: RAILROADS › 23 §2908. Damages for neglect (REPEALED)

§2908. Damages for neglect
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1981, c. 456, §A81 (NEW). PL 1989, c. 398, §1 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 5: RAILROADS › 23 §2909. Bridges over canals or railroads; repairs; proceedings where unsafe conditions (REPEALED)

§2909. Bridges over canals or railroads; repairs; proceedings where unsafe conditions
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1981, c. 456, §A81 (NEW). PL 1989, c. 398, §1 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 5: RAILROADS › 23 §2910. Temporary crossings (REPEALED)

§2910. Temporary crossings
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1981, c. 456, §A81 (NEW). PL 1989, c. 398, §1 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 5: RAILROADS › 23 §2911. Crossing signs on each side of track; whistle and bell (REPEALED)

§2911. Crossing signs on each side of track; whistle and bell
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1981, c. 456, §A81 (NEW). PL 1989, c. 398, §1 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 5: RAILROADS › 23 §2912. Precautions at crossings (REPEALED)

§2912. Precautions at crossings
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1981, c. 456, §A81 (NEW). PL 1989, c. 398, §1 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 5: RAILROADS › 23 §2913. Crossings kept open part of year; expense apportioned (REPEALED)

§2913. Crossings kept open part of year; expense apportioned
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1981, c. 456, §A81 (NEW). PL 1989, c. 398, §1 (RP).
2023 Maine Revised Statutes › TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION › Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW › Chapter 301: GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter 5: RAILROADS › 23 §2914. Signboards at grade crossings; ringing of engine bells (REPEALED)

§2914. Signboards at grade crossings; ringing of engine bells
(REPEALED)
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1981, c. 456, §A81 (NEW). PL 1989, c. 398, §1 (RP).