A.__A disparity between the retail price and the producers' price that grossly exceeds a reasonable rate of return;

B.__Significant increases in retail price that are not the result of an increase paid to producers for raw milk and that are not otherwise justified by changes in cost to the dealer or store;

C.__Decreases in prices paid to producers that do not yield corresponding decreases in retail prices for the same milk;

D.__Elevated prices or changes in price that appear to reflect price-fixing or combination activity by 2 or more stores or dealers; or

E.__Elevated prices that appear to result from regional market share dominance by a store or dealer or by a combination of stores or dealers.

Sec. 4. 7 MRSA §3153-A is enacted to read:

§3153-A.__Dairy stabilization subsidy

For the months of March 2003 to December 2004, the director of the Maine Milk Commission shall distribute on a monthly basis to Maine's dairy farmers a direct subsidy calculated as 50% of the difference between $17 per hundredweight and the statistical blend price of milk for Suffolk County, Massachusetts as determined for that month by the Northeast Market Administrator of the United States Department of Agriculture.__If there are insufficient funds to cover the subsidy, then the Director of the Maine Milk Commission shall prorate the distribution on the basis of each farmer's production for the month.__The first distribution must cover the months of March 2003 to the month in which this section takes effect.__The last subsidy must be for the month of December 2004.__The total subsidy for milk production occurring within a single month may not exceed $1,100,000.

Sec. 5. 36 MRSA §6652, sub-§1-D is enacted to read:

1-D.__Limitation on certain property.__Reimbursement may not be made pursuant to this chapter to the extent that the property taxes paid after March 31, 2002 are returned to a taxpayer by a municipality due to the taxpayer's participation in a municipal development district pursuant to Title 30-A, chapter 206, subchapter 1.