CHAPTER 294
S.P. 107 - L.D. 325
An Act To Clarify the Laws Pertaining to the Surcharge for Records Preservation for the Registry of Deeds
Mandate preamble. This measure requires one or more local units of government to expand or modify activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenues but does not provide funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. Pursuant to the Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 21, 2/3 of all of the members elected to each House have determined it necessary to enact this measure.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 33 MRSA §752, sub-§3, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 503, §1, is amended to read:
3. Expenditures from account. The money in the account established in subsection 2 must be used for the restoration, re-creation and preservation of the records recorded in the office of the register of deeds, including preservation by creation of a digital image stored on magnetic or optical media.
Sec. 2. 33 MRSA §752, sub-§4, as amended by PL 2001, c. 317, §1, is repealed.
Sec. 3. 33 MRSA §752, sub-§5 is enacted to read:
5. Annual report. The register of deeds for each county shall report annually to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over state and local government matters on the amount of surcharge funds raised and expended and the use of those funds. The registers of deeds may jointly prepare and submit the report required under this subsection, as long as the required information is separately described for each county.
Effective September 13, 2003, unless otherwise indicated.
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