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contingent or capital reserve accounts established by the town.__
The town may expend the funds in the same manner provided in
section 7502, subsections 5 and 6.

 
§7606.__Education

 
Consistent with Title 20-A, each town established under this
chapter has the authority to determine educational policy for
the previously unorganized areas constituting the town,
including operation of its own school or schools or
contracting for school services with other school
administrative units, the county or the State.__The town may
establish an elected school committee composed of
representatives from each of the previously unorganized areas
in the town to set out educational policy and to propose and
oversee the town's school budget.

 
§7607.__Planning and land use

 
A town organized under this chapter must establish its own
growth management program consistent with chapter 187.__After
a town has been established for 3 years, the town's growth
management program will take effect and its land use
regulation will no longer be under the jurisdiction of the
Maine Land Use Regulation Commission.

 
§7608.__Sovereignty of Native Americans

 
This chapter does not affect the sovereign rights of Native
Americans over land that they own in a formerly unorganized
area that is established as a single town in a county.

 
Sec. 2. Reimbursement for tree growth. The Department of
Administrative and Financial Services, Maine Revenue Services
shall develop rules to establish a fair system of
reimbursement for tree growth to towns established under the
Maine Revised Statutes, Title 30-A chapter 307. Rules adopted
pursuant to this section are routine technical rules as
defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.

 
SUMMARY

 
This bill establishes a new chapter in the Maine Revised
Statutes, Title 30-A that provides a method for unorganized
areas to develop a system of self-governance. The bill
delineates the requirements that must be met for a town to be
created in the unorganized areas. It also outlines the
powers, duties and responsibilities of the new town's
government. It also requires the Department of Administrative
Services, Maine Revenue Services


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