Sec. 6. 35-A MRSA §2502, sub-§1, ķA, as amended by PL 1999, c. 473, Pt. D, §8, is further amended to read:

A. The Department of Transportation, when the public way is a state, or state-aid or federal-aid highway, except for state or state-aid highways in the compact areas of urban compact municipalities as defined in Title 23, section 754;

Sec. 7. 35-A MRSA §2502, sub-§4, as enacted by PL 1987, c. 141, Pt. A, §6, is repealed.

Sec. 8. PL 1999, c. 473, Pt. F, §2 is repealed and the following enacted in its place:

*Sec. F-2.__Major collector state aid municipal match.__The Department of Transportation shall assume all responsibility for standard municipal financial obligations to the department under the Collector Road Development Award Program due on or after June 1, 1999 incurred as a result of planned or executed major collector state aid Collector Road Development Award Program reconstruction projects.__The department shall satisfy these municipal financial obligations with balances remaining in the Urban-Rural Initiative Program and Collector Road Development Award Program until such time as all such municipal financial obligations are satisfied.

Sec. 9. Retroactivity. That section of this Act that repeals and replaces Public Law 1999, chapter 473, Part F, section 2 applies retroactively to June 1, 1999.

SUMMARY

This bill makes the following changes to the laws governing transportation.

1. It provides that the Department of Transportation may grant or otherwise transfer easements over property taken or acquired for transportation purposes when the department in its sole discretion determines that the conveyance of such easements is appropriate and necessary.