An Act Regarding the Funding of Volunteer Fire Departments
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA §5722, sub-§4, as enacted by PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. A, §2 and Pt. C, §106 and amended by PL 1989, c. 6; c. 9, §2; and c. 104, Pt. C, §§8 and 10, is further amended to read:
4. Volunteer fire department. Support an incorporated volunteer fire department . ;
A. If the amount appropriated for an incorporated volunteer fire department is $1,000 or less, the municipal officers may issue their warrant to the municipal treasurer, without itemizing the purposes for which the appropriation will be spent, requiring the municipal treasurer to pay the amount of the appropriation to the treasurer of the volunteer fire department;
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This bill repeals statutory language that specifies that a municipality may appropriate amounts of $1,000 or less to its incorporated volunteer fire department without itemizing the purposes for which the appropriation will be spent.