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Item 1

 
excluding motor vehicles as defined in section 1752,
subsection 7; attachments and equipment for the
production of field and orchard crops; new or used
machinery and equipment for use directly and primarily in
production of milk, animal husbandry and production of
livestock, including poultry; and new or used machinery
and equipment not used directly and primarily in
commercial agricultural production, but used exclusively
to transport potatoes from a truck into a storage
location;

 
(2) New or used watercraft, nets, traps, cables, tackle
and related equipment necessary to and used directly
and primarily in the operation of a commercial fishing
venture, but excluding motor vehicles as defined in
section 1752, subsection 7; or

 
(3) New or used watercraft, machinery or equipment
used directly and primarily for commercial aquacultural
production, including, but not limited to: nets; ropes;
cables; anchors and anchor weights; shackles and other
hardware; buoys; fish tanks; fish totes; oxygen tanks;
pumping systems; generators; water-heating systems;
boilers and related pumping systems; diving equipment;
feeders and related equipment; power-generating
equipment; tank water-level sensors; aboveground
piping; water-oxygenating systems; fish-grading
equipment; safety equipment; and sea cage systems,
including walkways and frames, lights, netting, buoys,
shackles, ropes, cables, anchors and anchor weights;
but excluding motor vehicles as defined in section
1752, subsection 7.

 
Sec. 24. 36 MRSA §4072, first ¶, as amended by PL 1999, c. 38, §1, is
further amended to read:

 
All property subject to taxes under this chapter, in whatever
form of investment it may happen to be, is charged with a lien
for all taxes, interest and penalties that are or may become due
on that property. The lien does not attach to any real or
personal property after the property has been sold or disposed of
for value by the personal representative, trustee or surviving
joint tenant. Upon payment of those taxes, interest and
penalties due under this chapter, or upon determination that no
tax is due, the State Tax Assessor shall upon request execute a
discharge of the tax lien for recording in the appropriate
registry or registries of deeds.

 
Sec. 25. 36 MRSA §5102, sub-§6, as amended by PL 1997, c. 668, §29, is
repealed and the following enacted in its place:


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