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Recreation Zone business for work directly in one or more qualified
business activities, for whom a retirement program subject to the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 United States
Code, Sections 101 to 1461 (2003) and group health insurance are
provided and whose wages derived from employment within the Pine
Tree Recreation Zone are greater than the average annual per capita
wages in the local labor market area in the county in which the
qualified employees are employed.__Qualified Pine Tree Recreation
Zone employees must be residents of this State.

 
10.__Qualified recreation business activity.__"Qualified
recreation business activity" means a business activity that is
conducted within the Pine Tree Recreation Zone that involves
outdoor recreation, including, but not limited to, providing
services or merchandise relating to guiding, hunting, fishing,
skiing, snowboarding, snowmobiling or water sports, and for which
the business receives a certificate from the commissioner
pursuant to section 5250-S.

 
§5250-R.__Program administration; rules

 
The commissioner shall administer this subchapter. The
commissioner shall adopt rules pursuant to the Maine
Administrative Procedure Act for implementation of the Pine Tree
Recreation Zone.__Rules adopted under this section are routine
technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-
A.

 
§5250-S.__Certification of qualified recreation business

 
A business may apply to the commissioner for certification as
a qualified Pine Tree Recreation Zone business.__Upon review and
determination by the commissioner that a business qualifies as a
qualified Pine Tree Recreation Zone business, the commissioner
shall issue a certificate of qualification to the business that
includes a description of the qualified recreation business
activity for which the certificate is being issued.

 
Sec. 2. 36 MRSA §1760, sub-§§88 and 89 are enacted to read:

 
88.__Construction contracts with qualified Pine Tree
Recreation Zone businesses.__Beginning July 1, 2005, sales to a
construction contractor of tangible personal property that is to
be physically incorporated in, and become a permanent part of,
real property that is owned by or for sale to a qualified Pine
Tree Recreation Zone business, as defined in Title 30-A, section
5250-Q, subsection 8, which real property will be used in the
qualified recreation business activity, as defined in Title 30-A,
section 5250-Q, subsection 10, of the qualified Pine Tree


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