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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘An Act To Require Notification before Withdrawal of Land from Classification under the Maine Tree Growth Tax Law for Failure To File Certain Statements’
Amend the bill by inserting after the title and before the enacting clause the following:
‘ 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.’
Amend the bill in section 1 by striking out all of the first paragraph (page 1, lines 4 to 14 in L.D.) and inserting the following:
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If the assessor determines that land subject to this subchapter no longer meets the requirements of this subchapter, the assessor must withdraw the parcel from taxation under this subchapter. Before withdrawing a parcel from taxation under this subchapter, if the sole reason the land does not meet the requirements of this subchapter is that the owner failed to file the sworn statement required under section 574-B, subsection 1, the assessor shall provide the owner with written notice by regular mail of the deadline to file the sworn statement and permit the owner at least 60 days to respond to that notice. The owner of land subject to this subchapter may at any time request withdrawal of any parcel, or portion thereof, from taxation under this subchapter by certifying to the assessor that the land is no longer to be classified under this subchapter.’
 
SUMMARY
This amendment clarifies that before withdrawing land from classification under the Maine Tree Growth Tax Law the local tax assessor must have provided notice to the owner of the deadline for filing required statements and allowed the landowner 60 days to respond to the notice. The amendment also adds a mandate preamble.