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obtained advanced education or specialized training.__
"Professional services" includes, without limitation, such
services as:

 
(1)__Lobbying services;

 
(2)__Architectural and design consulting services;

 
(3)__Legal services;

 
(4)__Surveying and professional engineering services,
including geological and hydrogeological consulting
services and consulting services related to the
science of soil analysis and subsurface engineering;

 
(5)__Arbitration services;

 
(6)__Appraisal services; and

 
(7)__Accounting, financial investment and financial
management services.

 
"Licensed professional services" does not include those
services provided by health care practitioners.

 
Sec. D-9. 36 MRSA §1760, sub-§14 is repealed.

 
Sec. D-10. 36 MRSA §1760, sub-§24 is amended to read:

 
24. Funeral services. Sales of basic funeral services, not
exceeding $2,500 in value, that are provided for the
disposition or interment of a deceased human body.

 
Sec. D-11. 36 MRSA §1760, sub-§34, as repealed and replaced by PL
1981, c. 163, §4, is repealed.

 
Sec. D-12. 36 MRSA §1760, sub-§86 is enacted to read:

 
86.__Certain legal services.__Legal services provided on a
pro bono basis, all legal services provided by court
appointment and all legal services provided to a client
without substantial assets of any kind whose household income
from all sources is less than 200% of the federal poverty
level during the period 6 months prior to the initiation of
the legal service or during the period 6 months subsequent to
the initiation of the legal service as such a determination
can be reasonably calculated, whichever analysis yields the
lesser income.

 
Sec. D-13. Annual review. The joint standing committee of the
Legislature having jurisdiction over taxation matters shall


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