| | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | | Sec. 1. Responsibility for education costs for exceptional student. | | Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the municipality of | | Lake View Plantation shall pay the full municipal share of the | | cost of the education of an exceptional student, as defined in | | the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 7001, subsection | | 2, who is a resident of Lake View Plantation. This section | | applies retroactively to June 30, 2002. |
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| | | Sec. 2. Responsibility for debt. If the municipality of Lake View | | Plantation withdraws from School Administrative District No. 41, | | Lake View Plantation is responsible for its share of the debt of | | that school administrative district. This section applies | | retroactively to June 30, 2002. |
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| | | Sec. 3. P&SL 1965, c. 68, 2nd ¶ is amended to read: |
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| | | Notwithstanding the provisions of Title 20, section 305, the | | costs of the district shall be apportioned and the assessments | | shall be made in proportion to the total sum required each year | | as that town's state valuation bears to the total state valuation | of all the participating towns, except that if the apportionment | for maintenance and operation of the schools results in a per | pupil cost to any participating town in excess of 150% of the | average per pupil cost for operating the schools, the town's | apportionment shall be 150% of the average per pupil cost and the | balance shall be apportioned among the remaining towns according | to the last preceding state valuation |
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| | | Sec. 4. P&SL 1965, c. 68, 3rd ¶, 3rd sentence, as enacted by PL 1967, c. | | 104, is amended to read: |
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| | | From the foundation program thus distributed shall be subtracted | | the yield of 20 mills times the member municipality's state | | valuation provided that no member municipality shall be required | to appropriate more than 80% |
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| | | Sec. 5. Effective date. Those sections of this Act that amend Private | | and Special Law 1965, chapter 68 take effect June 30, 2003. |
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| | | This bill changes the way the costs of School Administrative | | District No. 41 are apportioned among the municipalities in that | | district, beginning June 30, 2003. It requires the municipality | | of Lake View Plantation to pay the full municipal share of the | | cost of the education of an exceptional student who is a resident |
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