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necessary to comply with the order and the time limit for
compliance;

 
C. If the owner or keeper of the animal fails to comply
within the time stated, the animal control officer must
apply to District Court or Superior Court for an order to
seize the animal and make arrangements for quarantine or
euthanasia at the owner's or keeper's expense; and

 
D. If the owner or keeper of the animal fails to pay the
costs of confinement or quarantine within 30 days after
written demand from the municipal officers, the municipal
assessors may file a record of lien against the property of
the owner or keeper of the animal.

 
A municipality that files a lien on real property pursuant to
this subsection shall meet the notice requirements specified in
Title 14, section 4651-A, subsection 5.

 
Sec. 3. 36 MRSA §175-A, sub-§1, as amended by PL 1997, c. 526, §10, is
further amended to read:

 
1. Filing. If any tax imposed by this Title or imposed by
any other provision of law and authorized to be collected by the
bureau is not paid when due and no further administrative or
judicial review of the assessment is available pursuant to law,
the assessor may file in the registry of deeds of any county or
in the office in which a financing statement with respect to
tangible personal property is properly filed with Title 11,
section 9-401, subsection (1), paragraph (b) a notice of lien
specifying the amount of the tax, interest, penalty and costs
due, the name and last known address of the person liable for the
amount and, in the case of a tax imposed by this Title, the fact
that the assessor has complied with all the provisions of this
Title in the assessment of the tax. The lien arises at the time
the assessment becomes final and constitutes a lien upon all
property, whether real or personal, then owned or thereafter
acquired by that person in the period before the expiration of
the lien. The lien imposed by this section is not valid against
any mortgagee, pledgee, purchaser, judgment creditor or holder of
a properly recorded security interest until notice of the lien
has been filed by the assessor, with respect to real property, in
the registry of deeds of the county where such property is
located and, with respect to personal property, in the office in
which a financing statement for such personal property is
normally filed. Notwithstanding this subsection, a tax lien upon
personal property does not extend to those types of personal
property not subject to perfection of a security interest by
means of the filing under Title 11, sections 9-104, subsection
(7); 9-104, subsection (12); 9-302, subsection (3); and 9-304.


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