| |  | | legislative body, the State Tax Assessor acts as the municipal |  | assessor and the unorganized territory education and services fund |  | receives the funds designated for the municipal general fund. | 
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 |  | | §5250-O.__Certification of qualified business | 
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 |  | |  | A business may apply to the commissioner for certification as |  | a qualified Pine Tree Development Zone business.__Upon review and |  | determination by the commissioner that a business is a qualified |  | Pine Tree Development Zone business, the commissioner shall issue |  | a certificate of qualification to the business that includes a |  | description of the qualified business activity for which the |  | certificate is being issued. | 
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 |  | |  | By January 15, 2004, the commissioner shall report to the |  | joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction |  | over economic development matters regarding rulemaking and |  | progress in implementing Pine Tree Development Zones.__Not later |  | than April 1, 2005 and April 1st of each odd-numbered year |  | thereafter, the commissioner shall report to the joint standing |  | committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over economic |  | development matters on the status of the Pine Tree Development |  | Zones. | 
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 |  | |  | Sec. 47.  32 MRSA §3501, sub-§2, ¶B, as amended by PL 1999, c. 386, Pt. |  | L, §6, is further amended to read: | 
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 |  | | B.  A minimum of 2,000 hours of work in the field of |  | plumbing installations as a journeyman-in-training under the |  | supervision of a licensed master plumber, as long as the |  | work experience is obtained within 4 years of the date upon |  | which the applicant was issued a journeyman-in-training |  | license. A journeyman-in-training license must be issued |  | upon sworn application to any person who has satisfactorily |  | completed one academic year of instruction in plumbing at a |  | board-approved technical college or community college and |  | who has obtained a passing grade, as determined by the board |  | on the journeyman's examination. | 
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 |  | |  | Sec. 48.  32 MRSA §3501, sub-§2-B, as amended by PL 2003, c. 250, Pt. |  | B, §2, is further amended to read: | 
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 |  | |  | 2-B.  Journeyman-in-training.  The board may issue a |  | journeyman-in-training license to a person who provides |  | satisfactory evidence of completion of a plumbing course |  | consisting of one year or 2 semesters at a board-approved |  | technical college or community college and who submits the |  | required fee set under section 3501- |  | B.  A journeyman-in-training | 
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