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the lack of opportunity to join together in bargaining over | | compensation can result in unfair contract rates for the services | | of loggers and wood haulers. The Legislature finds evidence of | | unfairness in the fact that contract rates for harvesting and | | hauling services are considerably lower on the land of such owners. | | The Legislature finds that it is in the public interest to ensure a | | reasonable rate of compensation for harvesting and hauling services | | and therefore creates in this chapter a process whereby the State | | displaces existing market forces and, upon request, sets the rates | | of compensation for such services. |
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| | | Sec. 2. 26 MRSA §1352, sub-§5, ķA, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 670, §3, | | is amended to read: |
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| | | A. A person that owns directly or through affiliated | | persons, or possesses economic control over, more than | | 400,000 acres in a labor market area, which acreage | | constitutes more than 30% of the total land area in that | | labor market area; or |
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| | | Sec. 3. 26 MRSA §1352, sub-§10, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 670, §3, is | | amended to read: |
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| | | 10. Person. "Person" includes one or more individuals, | | partnerships, corporations, limited liability corporations, | | business organizations and associations. |
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