CHAPTER 514
H.P. 342 - L.D. 464
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 36 MRSA §2013, sub-§1, śC, as repealed and replaced by PL 1993, c. 680, Pt. A, §30, is amended to read:
C. "Depreciable machinery and equipment" means that part of the following machinery and equipment for which depreciation is allowable under the Code and repair parts for that machinery and equipment:
(1) New or used machinery and equipment for use directly and primarily in commercial agricultural production, including self-propelled vehicles, but excluding motor vehicles as defined in section 1752, subsection 7; attachments and equipment for the production of field and orchard crops; and new or used machinery and equipment for use directly and primarily in production of milk, animal husbandry and production of livestock, including poultry; and new or used machinery and equipment not used directly and primarily in commercial agricultural production, but used exclusively to transport potatoes from a truck into a storage location;
(2) New or used watercraft, nets, traps, cables, tackle and related equipment necessary to and used directly and primarily in the operation of a commercial fishing venture, but excluding motor vehicles as defined in section 1752, subsection 7; or
(3) New or used watercraft, machinery or equipment used directly and primarily for aquacultural production, including, but not limited to: nets; ropes; cables; anchors and anchor weights; shackles and other hardware; buoys; fish tanks; fish totes; oxygen tanks; pumping systems; generators; water-heating systems; boilers and related pumping systems; diving equipment; feeders and related equipment; power-generating equipment; tank water-level sensors; aboveground piping; water-oxygenating systems; fish-grading equipment; safety equipment; and sea cage systems, including walkways and frames, lights, netting, buoys, shackles, ropes, cables, anchors and anchor weights; but excluding motor vehicles as defined in section 1752, subsection 7.
Effective September 19, 1997, unless otherwise indicated.
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