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| | | An Act To Expand Maine's Homestead Exemption for the Blind |
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| | | Mandate preamble. This measure requires one or more local units | | of government to expand or modify activities so as to necessitate | | additional expenditures from local revenues but does not provide | | funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. Pursuant to the | | Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 21, 2/3 of all of the | | members elected to each House have determined it necessary to | | enact this measure. |
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| | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | | Sec. 1. 36 MRSA §654, sub-§1, ķE, as amended by PL 1995, c. 545, §1, | | is further amended to read: |
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| | | E. The residential real estate up to the just value of $4,000 of | | inhabitants of Maine who are legally blind as determined by a properly | | licensed Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Osteopathy or Doctor of Optometry.__ | | The exemption provided by this paragraph also applies to residential real | | estate held in a revocable living trust for the benefit of and occupied | | as a permanent residence by such a person; and |
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