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Amend the amendment by striking out the substitute title and inserting the following:
‘An Act To Establish Municipal Cost Components for Unorganized Territory Services To Be Rendered in Fiscal Year 2010-11 and To Make Certain Changes in the Laws Governing Tax Increment Financing Payments in the Unorganized Territories and in the Laws Governing Development Districts’
Amend the amendment in Part B by inserting before section 1 the following:
‘Sec. B-1.  30-A MRSA §5236  is enacted to read:
§ 5236. Plantations
For purposes of this subchapter and pursuant to section 7051, subsection 12, a plantation that conducts property tax valuation and assesses, collects and disposes of property taxes may act as a municipality and may designate a development district. An action of a plantation under this section at a plantation annual meeting or a properly called town meeting pursuant to section 7006 is deemed to be an action of a municipality or a municipal legislative body pursuant to this subchapter, and an action of a plantation's board of assessors is deemed to be an action of a municipal assessor or a municipal assessing authority pursuant to this subchapter.
Sec. B-2. 30-A MRSA §7051, sub-§10, as amended by PL 2007, c. 35, §2, is further amended to read:
 
10. Tax base sharing. Chapter 223, subchapter 5; and
Sec. B-3. 30-A MRSA §7051, sub-§11, as enacted by PL 2007, c. 35, §3, is amended to read:
 
11. Animal control ordinances. Chapter 141, but only with respect to animal control ordinances and subject to Title 7, section 3950.; and
Sec. B-4.  30-A MRSA §7051, sub-§12  is enacted to read:
 
12.  Municipal development districts.  Chapter 206, subchapter 1. This subsection applies only to a plantation that conducts property tax valuation and assesses, collects and disposes of property taxes.’
Amend the amendment by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section number to read consecutively.
 
SUMMARY
This amendment allows a plantation that conducts property tax valuation and assesses, collects and disposes of property taxes to designate a development district.
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED
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