| | | adjust any or all fees for licenses and permits and other fees | | collected by the department pursuant to this Part to maintain | | parity with the Consumer Price Index as defined in Title 36, | | section 5402, subsection 1.__The adjustment must equal the | | percentage change in the annual average Consumer Price Index over | | the 2 most recent calendar years.__The adjustment must then be | | rounded to yield a fee change to the closest 50¢. |
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| | | Sec. L-2. 12 MRSA §7017, sub-§9, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 690, Pt. A, | | §1, is amended to read: |
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| | | 9. Fiscal Stability Program. The Fiscal Stability Program is | | established to ensure that the general public and hunters and | | anglers share the cost of the fish and wildlife conservation | | programs of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. To | achieve this goal, beginning with the 2004-2005 | | biennial budget and for each biennial budget thereafter, the | | biennial budget submitted by the executive branch must include a | | General Fund appropriation of 18% of the department's requested | | biennial budget. General Fund appropriations to the Fiscal | | Stability Program may not be considered to be amounts | | appropriated to the department under the Constitution of Maine, | | Article IX, Section 22. |
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| | | Sec. L-3. 12 MRSA §7081 is enacted to read: |
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| | | §7081.__Temporary assessment on licenses, permits and |
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| | | Notwithstanding any other provision of this Part, an | | additional temporary assessment of $3 is imposed on every | | license, permit, application, registration or other fee pursuant | | to this Part that is issued for the registration periods | | beginning January 1, 2004 and January 1, 2005, except the | | additional temporary assessment for ATV registrations is $13 for | | residents and $30 for nonresidents.__The additional temporary $3 | | assessments for snowmobile registrations and the $13 and $30 | | additional temporary assessments for ATV registrations are | | effective for the registration periods beginning on July 1, 2003 | | and July 1, 2004.__Temporary assessments must be collected at the | | time a license, permit, application, registration or other fee is | | issued and credited in full to the department.__This section is | | repealed on June 30, 2005. |
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| | | Sec. L-4. 12 MRSA §7463-A, sub-§6, ¶B, as amended by PL 2001, c. 690, | | Pt. A, §11 and affected by §18, is further amended to read: |
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