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Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the summary and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1. 23 MRSA §3103,  as amended by PL 2005, c. 479, §1, is further amended to read:
§ 3103. Contracts for repair; assessments
The owners, at a meeting held under section 3101, may authorize a contract to be made for making and keeping the way or bridge in repair by the year or for a lesser time and may raise money for that purpose and choose assessors to assess it on the owners in proportion to each owner's interest. An owner's interest is based on the assessed valuation for property tax on the owner's parcel that is benefited by the private way or bridge. The assessors shall deliver their assessment with a warrant for its collection to the commissioner. The warrant must be in substance such as is prescribed for collection of town taxes. The commissioner shall collect the same as town taxes are collected, and beis liable for neglect of duty as town collectors are for similar neglects.’
 
SUMMARY
This amendment, which is the minority report of the committee, strikes the provision of law that provided that the assessment for the repair or maintenance of a private way or bridge is applied proportionally on the owners according to the assessed valuation for property tax.