127th MAINE LEGISLATURE
		LD 1325		LR 1363(02)
	An Act To Ensure a Public Process When Discontinuing or Abandoning a Public Road
	Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment " "
	Committee: State and Local Government
	Fiscal Note Required: Yes
Fiscal Note
Potential State Mandate - Unfunded
State Mandates
	Required Activity				Unit Affected	Local Cost
	Requires municipal clerks to file determinations of abandonment with the registry of deeds.				Municipality	Insignificant statewide
	The required local activities in this bill may represent a state mandate pursuant to the Constitution of Maine. If the bill does require a local unit of government to expand or modify its activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenue, the state mandate provisions of the Constitution of Maine require either: (1) General Fund appropriations be provided to fund at least 90% of any additional necessitated local costs of the mandate; or (2) a Mandate Preamble be added to the bill and two-thirds of the members of each House vote to exempt the mandate from the funding requirement. If the bill does represent a state mandate and neither one of these actions occurs, the local units of government will not be required to implement the mandated activities.
Fiscal Detail and Notes
	Additional costs to the Department of Transportation associated with receiving documents from municipal clerks and reporting on the status of any road inventories developed by municipalities can be absorbed within existing budgeted resources.