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B. Property or facilities included, planned to be included or
expected to directly benefit from an authority activity; or

 
C. A contract or proposed contract in connection with an
authority activity.

 
When an acquisition is involuntary, the interest acquired must be
disclosed immediately in writing to the board of trustees and the
disclosure must be entered in the board of trustees' minutes.

 
Sec. 9. 5 MRSA §13120-N, as amended by PL 2003, c. 281, §§5 and 6,
is further amended to read:

 
§13120-N. Speculative industrial building program

 
The authority may assist a municipality or local development
corporation to construct a community speculative industrial
building by loaning the municipality or local development
corporation money for construction or carrying costs or both for
the project, subject to the following.

 
1. Project. The following conditions apply to a project
receiving money under this section.

 
A. The project must be within the scope of this subchapter,
must be of public use and benefit and must reasonably be
expected to accomplish one or more of the following:

 
(1) Create new employment opportunities;

 
(2) Retain or improve existing employment; or

 
(3) Improve the competitiveness of the occupant
business.

 
B. Not more than one unoccupied community speculative
industrial building project may be financed in a
municipality.

 
C. The authority shall charge interest on loans or funds
provided under this section to the municipality or local
development corporation for a community speculative
industrial building that remains unoccupied for 3 or more
years following completion of the building.

 
D. The authority shall adopt rules under chapter 375 with
respect to:


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