Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:

Amend the bill by striking out all of sections 1 to 3.

Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section number to read consecutively.

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This amendment, which is the majority report of the committee, changes the title and amends the bill as follows.

1. It strikes the requirement that the Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of Community Development provide advanced training to code enforcement officers.

2. It strikes the proposed increases in the maximum per day civil penalty for specific violations of certain municipal land use laws or ordinances.

3. It retains the provision that municipal shoreland zoning ordinances must require an applicant for a permit for development within the shoreland zone to provide to the municipal permitting authority preconstruction and postconstruction photographs of the shoreline vegetation and development site.

The fiscal note on this amendment identifies as a potential state mandate certain requirements in the amendment relating to photographic records of developments within the shoreland zone. To be considered a mandate pursuant to the Constitution of Maine, a provision must require a local unit of government to expand or modify its activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenue. The members of the committee voting for this report find that the provisions identified in the fiscal note as a potential mandate do not require a local unit of government to expand or modify its activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenue.