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An Act to Clarify the Requirement for Municipalities to Provide Public Notice in a Newspaper

An Act to Clarify the Requirement for Municipalities to Provide Public Notice in a Newspaper

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Senator Russell Black
Last action
2026-04-03
Official status
Signed by the Governor
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

An Act to Clarify the Requirement for Municipalities to Provide Public Notice in a Newspaper

An Act to Clarify the Requirement for Municipalities to Provide Public Notice in a Newspaper Sponsor: Senator Russell Black Reference committee: State and Local Government Governor action: Signed by the Governor

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Clarify the Requirement for Municipalities to Provide Public Notice in a Newspaper Sponsor: Senator Russell Black Reference committee: State and Local Government Governor action: Signed by the Governor

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Amendments

These notes stay tied to the official amendment files and metadata from the legislature.

Adopted by House & Senate

Plain English: Page 1 - 132LR2804(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.

  • Page 1 - 132LR2804(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.
  • 2042 2 Date: (Filing No.
  • S- ) 3STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT 4 Reproduced and distributed under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate.
  • 5STATE OF MAINE 6SENATE 7132ND LEGISLATURE 8SECOND REGULAR SESSION 9 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT “ ” to S.P.

Bill History

  1. 2026-04-03 Governor

    Signed by the Governor

  2. 2026-03-30 Senate

    PASSED TO BE ENACTED , in concurrence.

  3. 2026-03-26 House

    PASSED TO BE ENACTED . Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  4. 2026-03-20 Committee

    Reported Out; OTP-AM

  5. 2026-02-18 Committee

    Work Session Held

  6. 2026-02-18 Committee

    Voted; OTP-AM

  7. 2026-02-04 Committee

    Work Session Held; TABLED

  8. 2025-12-09 Committee

    Referred to Committee on State and Local Government.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Clarify the Requirement for Municipalities to Provide Public Notice in a Newspaper
Sponsor:
Senator Russell Black
Reference committee:
State and Local Government
Governor action:
Signed by the Governor

Current Bill Text

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Page 1 - 132LR2804(03)
STATE OF MAINE
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IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX
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S.P. 831 - L.D. 2042
An Act to Clarify the Requirement for Municipalities to Provide Public
Notice in a Newspaper
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA §2007 is enacted to read:
§2007. Public notice
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a municipality required by this
Title to place a notice in a newspaper may meet this requirement by placing the notice on
the newspaper's publicly accessible website or the statewide repository for legal notices as
described in Title 1, section 603, subsection 2, as long as either action is followed by
placement of the notice in the next available print edition of the newspaper. The notice on
the newspaper's publicly accessible website must contain all information required to be
published in a newspaper.
APPROVED
APRIL 3, 2026
BY GOVERNOR
CHAPTER
613
PUBLIC LAW