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2.__Notification form.__Unless an alternate form or method of
reporting is provided in rule, notification must be on forms
supplied by the bureau and must include the following
information:

 
A.__The name, address and phone number of the landowner, any
designated agent and, if known, any harvester or harvesters;

 
B.__The name and address of any licensed professional
forester consulting the landowner on forest management or
harvesting practices;

 
C.__The municipality or township and county of harvest;

 
D.__The name of the nearest public or private all-weather
road;

 
E.__The approximate dates the harvest will begin and finish;

 
F.__The anticipated acreage to be harvested;

 
G.__An indication whether the land being harvested is taxed
under the Maine Tree Growth Tax Law.__If the land being
harvested is taxed under the Maine Tree Growth Tax Law, the
notification must include a statement, signed by the
landowner, indicating that the harvest is consistent with
the forest management and harvest plan required by Title 36,
section 574-B, subsection 1.__A licensed professional
forester who has a fiduciary responsibility to the landowner
may sign the statement required in this paragraph.

 
Failure to indicate that the harvest is consistent with the
forest management and harvest plan constitutes a withdrawal
from taxation under the Maine Tree Growth Tax Law of the
land being harvested in a manner that is not consistent with
the forest management and harvest plan.__When such failure
is indicated, the director shall notify the assessor for the
jurisdiction in which the parcel is located that the land or
a portion of the land no longer meets the requirements of
Title 36, chapter 105, subchapter 2-A and must be withdrawn
in accordance with Title 36, section 581;

 
H.__Whether the land is being harvested to convert to
another use within 2 years and, if so, what that use is to
be.

 
If the land being converted to another use is taxed under the
Maine Tree Growth Tax Law, notification of a change of land use
under this subsection constitutes a withdrawal from taxation
under the Maine Tree Growth Tax Law of that portion of land being
converted to another use.__When a change in


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