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LD745 • 2025

An Act to Allow a Municipality to Sell Tax-acquired Property in Any Manner Authorized by the Municipality's Legislative Body

An Act to Allow a Municipality to Sell Tax-acquired Property in Any Manner Authorized by the Municipality's Legislative Body

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Sponsor
Representative Michael Lemelin
Last action
2025-04-08
Official status
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act to Allow a Municipality to Sell Tax-acquired Property in Any Manner Authorized by the Municipality's Legislative Body

An Act to Allow a Municipality to Sell Tax-acquired Property in Any Manner Authorized by the Municipality's Legislative Body Sponsor: Representative Michael Lemelin Reference committee: Taxation Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Allow a Municipality to Sell Tax-acquired Property in Any Manner Authorized by the Municipality's Legislative Body Sponsor: Representative Michael Lemelin Reference committee: Taxation Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-04-08 Senate

    Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)

  2. 2025-04-02 Committee

    Reported Out; ONTP

  3. 2025-03-25 Committee

    Work Session Held

  4. 2025-03-25 Committee

    Voted; ONTP

  5. 2025-03-21 House

    Carried over, in the same posture, to the next special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 519.

  6. 2025-02-25 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Taxation.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Allow a Municipality to Sell Tax-acquired Property in Any Manner Authorized by the Municipality's Legislative Body
Sponsor:
Representative Michael Lemelin
Reference committee:
Taxation
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 745
H.P. 487 House of Representatives, February 25, 2025
An Act to Allow a Municipality to Sell Tax-acquired Property in
Any Manner Authorized by the Municipality's Legislative Body
Reference to the Committee on Taxation suggested and ordered printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative LEMELIN of Chelsea.

Page 1 - 132LR0490(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 36 MRSA §943-C, sub-§4-B is enacted to read:
34-B. Property exempt from sale process requirement. Notwithstanding the sale
4 process described in subsections 2, 3 and 4-A, a municipality may sell tax-acquired
5 property in any manner authorized by the municipality's legislative body after the
6 expiration of the relevant period for commencement of a title action provided by section
7 946-B, as long as the municipality pays the former owner any excess sale proceeds as
8 calculated in subsection 3, paragraph C.
9SUMMARY
10 This bill allows a municipality to sell tax-acquired property in any manner authorized
11 by the municipality's legislative body after the expiration of the relevant period for
12 commencement of a title action as long as the municipality pays the former owner any
13 excess sale proceeds as calculated pursuant to law.
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