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An Act To Require a Seller of a Gas Station To Provide an Updated Inspection Prior to Sale of the Property
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 38 MRSA §563, sub-§6,  as amended by PL 2005, c. 491, §1, is further amended to read:
 
6. Providing notice.   Prior to the sale or transfer of any real estate where an underground oil storage facility is located, the owner of the real estate shall file a written notice with the purchaser or transferee. The notice must disclose the existence of the underground oil storage facility, its registration number or numbers, the real estate where the facility is located, whether or not the facility has been abandoned in place pursuant to section 566-A and that the facility is subject to regulation, including registration requirements, by the department under this subchapter. In the case of the sale or transfer of any real estate where an underground gasoline storage tank used in connection with the retail sale of gasoline is located, the owner of the real estate, prior to such a sale or transfer, shall file a copy of the most recent annual inspection results under subsection 9 with the purchaser or transferee.
 
SUMMARY
This bill provides that in the case of the sale or transfer of any real estate where an underground gasoline storage tank used in connection with the retail sale of gasoline is located, the owner of the real estate, prior to such a sale or transfer, shall file a copy of the most recent annual inspection results relating to the underground gasoline storage tank with the purchaser or transferee.