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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 33 MRSA §§801 to 803, as repealed and replaced by PL 1981, c.
156, are amended to read:

 
§801. Definition

 
The systems of plan coordinates which that have been
established by the National Ocean Survey and the National
Geodetic Survey or its successors 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 and, 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 an "East Zone" and a "West Zone." a "West Zone," a
"Central Zone" and an "East Zone" as follows.

 
The area now included in the following counties shall
constitute the East Zone: Aroostook, Hancock, Knox, Penobscot,
Piscataquis, Waldo and Washington.

 
The area now included in the following counties shall
constitute the West Zone: Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin,
Kennebec, Lincoln, Oxford, Sagadahoc, Somerset and York.

 
1.__West Zone.__The 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 corner of the Somerset and Piscataquis
county line, thence Southerly along this county line to the
northeast corner of the Athens town line, thence westerly along
the town line between Brighton Plantation and Athens to the
westerly corner of Athens, and continuing southerly to the
southwest corner 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 corner 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


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