CHAPTER 37

H.P. 357 - L.D. 465

An Act To Make Transportation More Affordable for Low-income

Families

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 5 MRSA §1813, sub-§6, as amended by PL 2001, c. 529, §1, is further amended to read:

6. Surplus property. Providing for transfer of supplies, materials and equipment that are surplus from one state department or agency to another that may need them, and for the disposal by private and public sale of supplies, materials and equipment that are obsolete and unusable. Political subdivisions, educational institutions, fire departments or qualifying nonprofit organizations, as defined in section 1813-A, must be given an opportunity to purchase the surplus items through private sale. If 2 or more political subdivisions, educational institutions, fire departments or qualifying nonprofit organizations are interested in any item, the sale must be the result of competitive bid. Any equipment so purchased must be retained for a period of at least one year in a current ongoing program. Any item purchased by a political subdivision, educational institution, fire department or qualifying nonprofit organization under this section may not be sold or transferred by that political subdivision, educational institution, fire department or qualifying nonprofit organization for a period of 6 months from the date of the private sale and the , except that a qualifying nonprofit organization that contracts with the Department of Human Services to provide vehicles to low-income