CHAPTER 143
H.P. 206 - L.D. 241
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, two thirds of all of the members elected to each House have determined it necessary to enact this measure.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA §883, sub-§2, ¶A, as enacted by PL 1991, c. 513, is amended to read:
A. Before September February 15th of every year, the county commissioners shall notify all municipal officers in the county to caucus by county commissioner districts at a specified date, time and place for the purpose of electing the membership of the county budget advisory committee. Whenever a public member of the budget advisory committee will be elected, the county commissioners must issue a public notice of that fact that includes the date, time and place of the caucus. The county commissioner shall serve as nonvoting moderator for that commissioner's district caucus. Nominations must be received from the floor. The nominee receiving the most votes is approved as a budget advisory committee member and serves a term of 3 years, except as provided in paragraph B.
Sec. 2. 30-A MRSA §884, as enacted by PL 1991, c. 513, is amended to read:
§884. Budget estimate; submission to advisory committee
The Sagadahoc County commissioners shall submit a budget estimate to the advisory committee no later than October April 1st for the coming fiscal year. The advisory committee shall review the budget estimate, hold a public hearing on the budget estimate and make recommendations to the commissioners before November May 15th. The county commissioners shall act on the budget in a timely fashion and, in any event, not later than December June 15th prior to the beginning of the budget year.
Sec. 3. Transition. The Sagadahoc County commissioners, in order to facilitate the change in fiscal year made by this Act, shall submit a budget for the period of January 1, 2002 to June 30, 2002 and for the period of July 1, 2002 to June 30, 2003.
Sec. 4. Effective date. Those sections of this Act that amend the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 30-A, section 883, subsection 2, paragraph A and section 884 take effect January 1, 2002.
Effective September 21, 2001, unless otherwise indicated.
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