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| | | An Act To Clarify the Laws Pertaining to the Surcharge for |
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| | | Records Preservation for the Registry of Deeds |
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| | | Mandate preamble. This measure requires one or more local units | | of government to expand or modify activities so as to necessitate | | additional expenditures from local revenues but does not provide | | funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. Pursuant to the | | Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 21, 2/3 of all of the | | members elected to each House have determined it necessary to | | enact this measure. |
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| | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | | Sec. 1. 33 MRSA §752, sub-§3, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 503, §1, is | | amended to read: |
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| | | 3. Expenditures from account. The money in the account | | established in subsection 2 must be used for the restoration, re- | | creation and preservation of the records recorded in the office | | of the register of deeds, including preservation by creation of a | | digital image stored on magnetic or optical media. |
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| | | Sec. 2. 33 MRSA §752, sub-§4, as amended by PL 2001, c. 317, §1, is | | repealed. |
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| | | Sec. 3. 33 MRSA §752, sub-§5 is enacted to read: |
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| | | 5.__Annual report.__The register of deeds for each county | | shall report annually to the joint standing committee of the | | Legislature having jurisdiction over state and local government | | matters on the amount of surcharge funds raised and expended and |
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