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Amend the amendment by inserting after the title the following:
’Amend the resolve by inserting after the title 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. ‘’
Further amend the amendment in the first line after the title (page 1, line 12 in amendment) by striking out the following: “Amend” and inserting in its place the following: ‘Further amend’
Further amend the amendment by inserting after section 14 the following:
‘Sec. 15 Real estate taxes; transfer to Organized Townships Fund. Resolved: That, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, until 90 days after adjournment of the Second Regular Session of the 123rd Legislature, the Township of Glenwood Plantation and the Town of LaGrange upon receiving property taxes on a parcel of land that is transferred by the State on or after July 1, 2006 pursuant to section 1 shall transmit an amount equal to the property tax collected to the Treasurer of State, who shall deposit those funds into the Organized Townships Fund to be expended in accordance with the purposes of the fund set forth in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 12, section 1854; and be it further’
Further amend the amendment by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section number to read consecutively.
 
SUMMARY
This amendment requires that, until 90 days after adjournment of the Second Regular Session of the 123rd Legislature, the Township of Glenwood Plantation and the Town of LaGrange upon receiving property taxes on a parcel of land that is transferred by the State on or after July 1, 2006 pursuant to the resolve shall transmit an amount equal to the property tax collected to the Treasurer of State, who shall deposit those funds into the Organized Townships Fund to be expended in accordance with the purposes of the fund set forth in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 12, section 1854.
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED
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