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Page 1 of 22 An Act To Establish the Lincoln and Sagadahoc Multicounty Jail Authority Page 3 of 22
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2.__Commissioner.__"Commissioner" or "county commissioner"
means a person elected or appointed to the Lincoln County or
Sagadahoc County board of commissioners.

 
3.__Consent of county.__"Consent of county" means a vote
taken pursuant to section 122.

 
4.__Director.__"Director" and "board of directors" means the
directors of the jail authority.

 
5.__Jail facility.__"Jail facility" or "jail" means any land
area, structure, location or equipment, or combination of
them, used for the confinement of prisoners.

 
6.__Municipality.__"Municipality" means a city or town.

 
7.__Municipal officers.__"Municipal officers" means the
municipal officers or councillors of a town or the mayor and
municipal officers or councillors of a city.

 
8.__Operating and governance agreement.__"Operating and
governance agreement" means the documents that set the terms
of the jail authority operations and structure for governance.

 
9.__Revenues.__"Revenues" means the proceeds of bonds, all
revenues, rates, tolls, assessments, rents, transportation
charges, reimbursement from the State, including community
corrections money, boarding fees and inmate-related medical
reimbursements, and other charges and receipts derived by the
jail authority from the operation of a multicounty jail,
including, but not limited to, investment earnings and the
proceeds of insurance, condemnation, sale or other disposition
of properties, and must include proceeds from assessments when
the power of assessment has been granted to the jail authority
under sections 1952 and 1953.

 
§1803.__Relationship to other laws

 
This chapter provides an alternative method for carrying out
the purposes of this chapter and is supplemental to powers
conferred by other laws, and is not in derogation of any
existing powers.

 
§1804.__Exemption from taxation

 
1.__Exemption.__The property, both real and personal, rights
and franchises of the jail authority formed under this chapter
are exempt from taxation.


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