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An Act To Protect Landowners from the Exercise of Eminent Domain in Energy Infrastructure Corridors
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 35-A MRSA §122, sub-§7, as amended by PL 2011, c. 655, Pt. MM, §16 and affected by §26, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:
 
7.  Eminent domain.     Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person may not take and hold by right of eminent domain any land or easement for the purposes of establishing or developing an energy infrastructure corridor.
 
SUMMARY
This bill repeals the eminent domain authority for the purposes of developing an energy infrastructure corridor and prohibits any authority for eminent domain under Maine law to be used for the purposes of establishing or developing an energy infrastructure corridor.