Opinion ID: 1535551
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Heading: The timeliness of Nemon's complaint

Text: Nemon's complaint was timely under 10 M.R.S.A. § 1064 and Rule 80C. By Rule 80C(b) the time period specified by the Administrative Procedure Act (5 M.R.S.A. § 11002(3)), namely, not more than 40 days after final agency action, will generally be the time for the filing of an 80C complaint. However, Rule 80C(a) makes an exception wherever another statute provides a different time period. [4] The MSAP statute provides exactly such a different time period; section 1064 thereof measures the time for seeking review as follows: Any action or proceeding in any court to set aside a ... certificate of approval or to obtain relief upon the grounds that the... certificate of approval was improperly adopted, was adopted for unauthorized purposes or is otherwise invalid for any reason, must be started within 30 days after the date of the publication [of a notice of the intent of the municipality to issue the securities in the state newspaper and in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality]. 10 M.R.S.A. § 1064(1)(C). Nemon filed his complaint well before the expiration of the time period set forth in the MSAP statute. The Town of Scarborough published a notice of its intent to issue the MSAP bonds in the Portland Press Herald on June 10, 1986. Nemon filed his complaint on July 2, 1986, 22 days after the publication and 8 days before the expiration of the statutory period for filing.