Sec. 1. 5 MRSA §86, as corrected by RR 2001, c. 2, Pt. B, §2 and affected by §58, is amended by adding at the end a new paragraph to read:

For filing and recording a designated office for service of trustee process under Title 14, section 2608-A, $25.

Sec. 2. 14 MRSA §2603 is amended to read:

§2603. Effect of service on trustee; service on

partnership

Service on the trustee binds all goods, effects or credits of the principal defendant entrusted to and deposited in his the trustee's possession, to respond to the final judgment in the action, as when attached by ordinary process if process describing the principal defendant with reasonable certainty is received at a time and in a manner that affords the trustee a reasonable opportunity to act on it. When a partnership is made a trustee on trustee process, service upon one member of the firm shall be is a sufficient attachment of the property of the principal defendant in the possession of the firm, provided such if that service be is made at any place of business of the firm or, if such that service is made elsewhere, that legal service be is afterward made upon the other members of the firm.

Sec. 3. 14 MRSA §2604 is amended to read:

§2604. County where action brought; divorce; financial

institution as trustee; counterclaim

If all the trustees live in the same county, the action shall must be brought there; if they reside in different counties, in any county in which one of them resides; and in a trustee process against a corporation, its residence shall be is deemed to be in the county in which it has its established or usual place of business, held its last annual meeting or usually holds its meetings; except that an action in which a railroad corporation is named and alleged as trustee may be brought in any county in which said the railroad corporation runs and operates its road; and except that an action in which a banking financial institution is named and alleged as trustee may be brought in any county in which said banking the financial institution maintains a place of business. Service may be made on the manager of such banking institution in the county having jurisdiction over the parties named in the action.