CHAPTER 597

H.P. 1080 - L.D. 1535

An Act Making Improvements to the Laws Regarding Local Land

Use Ordinances

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA §4301, sub-§6-A, as enacted by PL 1991, c. 18, §1, is amended to read:

6-A. Impact fee. "Impact fee" means a charge or assessment imposed by a municipality against a new development to fund or recoup a portion of the cost of new, expanded or replacement infrastructure facilities necessitated by and attributable at least in part to the new development.

Sec. 2. 30-A MRSA §4301, sub-§§7 and 11, as enacted by PL 1989, c. 104, Pt. A, §45 and Pt. C, §10, are amended to read:

7. Implementation program. "Implementation program" means that component of a local growth management program which that begins after the adoption of a comprehensive plan and that includes the policies and full range of municipal policy-making powers, including spending and borrowing powers, as well as the powers to adopt or implement ordinances, codes, rules or other land use regulations which, tools or mechanisms that carry out the purposes and general policy statements and strategies of the comprehensive plan in a manner consistent with the goals and guidelines of subchapter II 2.