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LR 3078
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 36 MRSA §141, sub-§2, ¶A, as enacted by PL 1979, c. 378, §4,
is amended to read:

 
A. An assessment may be made within 6 years from the date
the return was filed if the tax liability shown on the
return is less than 1/2 of the tax liability determined by
the State Tax Assessor and the additional liability is
attributable to information which that was required to be
reported but was not reported in the return or was reported
inaccurately.__In the case of taxes assessed pursuant to
Part 3, an inaccurately reported transaction includes, but
is not limited to, a transaction that is listed on a return
as an exempt transaction when it should have been listed as
a taxable transaction.

 
Sec. 2. 36 MRSA §1752, sub-§17-A, ¶G, as amended by PL 2001, c. 396,
§21, is further amended to read:

 
G. Rental of video tapes media and video equipment;

 
Sec. 3. 36 MRSA §1752, sub-§23, as repealed and replaced by PL 1989,
c. 871, §8, is amended to read:

 
23. Video media; video equipment. "Video tapes media" means
prerecorded magnetic tapes used for noncommercial playback of
images and sound on video equipment. It also includes, and other
electronic audio and video media that provide for noncommercial
interactive utilization by a person or persons, including digital
video discs. "Video equipment" means equipment used to play back
video tapes media, equipment used for recording images and sound
for subsequent noncommercial playback and equipment used for
noncommercial interactive utilization of electronic audio and
video media.

 
Sec. 4. 36 MRSA §4362-A, sub-§§2 and 3, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 458,
§3, are amended to read:

 
2. Applications; forms. An application for a distributor's
license must be made on a form prescribed and issued by the
assessor and must be accompanied by a fee of $250. Licenses are
issued in the form prescribed by the assessor and must contain
the name and address of the license holder, the address of the
place of business and such other information as the assessor may
require for the proper administration of this chapter.

 
3. Expiration and reissuance. A distributor's license
expires one year from the 31st 30th day of July June next
succeeding the date of issuance unless sooner revoked by the


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