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An Act to Modernize Deed Duplication from Microfilm to a Digital Image

An Act to Modernize Deed Duplication from Microfilm to a Digital Image

Enacted

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

Sponsor
Representative Suzanne Salisbury
Last action
2025-06-10
Official status
Signed by the Governor
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act to Modernize Deed Duplication from Microfilm to a Digital Image

An Act to Modernize Deed Duplication from Microfilm to a Digital Image Sponsor: Representative Suzanne Salisbury Reference committee: State and Local Government Governor action: Signed by the Governor

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Modernize Deed Duplication from Microfilm to a Digital Image Sponsor: Representative Suzanne Salisbury Reference committee: State and Local Government Governor action: Signed by the Governor

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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Adopted by House & Senate

Plain English: Page 1 - 132LR0565(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.

  • Page 1 - 132LR0565(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.
  • 915 2 Date: (Filing No.
  • H- ) 3STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT 4 Reproduced and distributed under the direction of the Clerk of the House.
  • 5STATE OF MAINE 6HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 7132ND LEGISLATURE 8FIRST SPECIAL SESSION 9 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT “ ” to H.P.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-10 Governor

    Signed by the Governor

  2. 2025-06-03 House

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

  3. 2025-06-03 Senate

    PASSED TO BE ENACTED , in concurrence.

  4. 2025-05-29 Committee

    Reported Out; OTP-AM

  5. 2025-04-09 Committee

    Work Session Held

  6. 2025-04-09 Committee

    Voted; OTP-AM

  7. 2025-03-05 Committee

    Referred to Committee on State and Local Government.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Modernize Deed Duplication from Microfilm to a Digital Image
Sponsor:
Representative Suzanne Salisbury
Reference committee:
State and Local Government
Governor action:
Signed by the Governor

Current Bill Text

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Page 1 - 132LR0565(03)
STATE OF MAINE
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IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE
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H.P. 580 - L.D. 915
An Act to Modernize Deed Duplication from Microfilm to a Digital Image
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 33 MRSA §651, 3rd ¶, as repealed and replaced by PL 2003, c. 55, §1, is
amended to read:
The register shall prepare, or have prepared, a microfilm record of each page of every
instrument, plan or other document recorded in the registry office. The microfilm record
made must be stored in a fireproof area and a digital image stored on magnetic or optical
media. When original record books or plans are considered by the register to be in a
condition that warrants withdrawal from regular use, the register may make a true copy of
the contents of the record or may provide suitable means for reading the microfilm,
microfiche or digital image stored on magnetic or optical media of the instruments
withdrawn. The records and certified copies made either from the true copy or from images
stored as provided in this section must be received in all courts of law with the same legal
effect as those contained in the original.
Sec. 2. 33 MRSA §652, 3rd ¶, as amended by PL 2019, c. 439, §1, is further
amended to read:
Paper plans submitted for recording must be rolled and not folded. The register may
return plans that are not legible for recording and archival purposes and the processing of
which may damage county equipment or resources. The register shall permanently file the
original, create a digital image of the plan at a minimum of 300 dots per inch or 300 pixels
per inch and maintain a copy for public inspection in paper or digital image form. Each
plan must be microfilmed maintained as a digital image stored on magnetic or optical media
for archival purposes. Each register shall maintain an index of all plans on record in the
register's office.
APPROVED
JUNE 10, 2025
BY GOVERNOR
CHAPTER
239
PUBLIC LAW