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2.__Transfer.__At the close of each fiscal year, the State
Controller shall identify the amount of Highway Fund unallocated
surplus and make the following transfers:

 
A.__Eighty percent of the unallocated surplus must be
transferred to the fund; and

 
B.__Twenty percent of the unallocated surplus must be
transferred to the Maine Highway Budget Stabilization Fund
established in section 1522.

 
3.__Notification.__By September 15th annually, the State
Controller shall notify the Legislature of the amount in the fund
as a result of the transfers required by subsection 2.

 
4.__Refund through legislative action.__If the amount in the
fund exceeds 10% of Highway Fund expenditures for the previous
fiscal year, the State Tax Assessor shall calculate, based on the
amount in the fund, a proportional reduction in the taxes on
motor fuels under Part 5 to become effective the following
January 1st and remain in effect for one calendar year.

 
§1997.__Revenues of quasi-governmental agencies and Other Special

 
Revenue funds accounts

 
By September 15th annually, each quasi-governmental agency or
state agency that manages an Other Special Revenue funds account
shall submit an annual report to the Legislature identifying
revenues received in the preceding fiscal year that exceed the
expenditure limitation established in section 1994 and any other
uncommitted revenues received during the previous fiscal year and
proposing a plan for refunding the amount identified that exceeds
10% of the previous fiscal year's expenditure.

 
§1998.__Refund of excess local revenues

 
If a local district receives revenues in a fiscal year in
excess of the expenditure limitation under section 1994, the
local district must use the amount of the unprotected excess to
reduce the amount of property tax assessed in the succeeding
year.__For purposes of this section, "unprotected excess" means
the amount in excess of an amount set aside in a reserve account
for unanticipated contingencies, which may not exceed 10% of the
previous fiscal year's expenditure.

 
§1999.__Emergency taxes

 
1.__Emergency taxes permitted; conditions.__The State or a
local district may impose emergency taxes only in accordance with
this section:


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