LD 1985
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defined and regulated under Title 7, chapter 3 4, or military
activities. It shall does not apply to persons, associations,
corporations, trusts or partnerships licensed under Title 8,
chapters 11 and 19.

 
Sec. 16. 36 MRSA §652, sub-§1, śC, as amended by PL 2001, c. 596, Pt.
B, §24 and affected by §25 and amended by PL 2003, c. 689, Pt. B,
§6, is further amended to read:

 
C. Further conditions to the right of exemption under
paragraphs A and B are that:

 
(1) Any corporation claiming exemption under paragraph
A must be organized and conducted exclusively for
benevolent and charitable purposes;

 
(2) A director, trustee, officer or employee of an
organization claiming exemption is not entitled to
receive directly or indirectly any pecuniary profit
from the operation of that organization, excepting
reasonable compensation for services in effecting its
purposes or as a proper beneficiary of its strictly
benevolent or charitable purposes;

 
(3) All profits derived from the operation of an
organization claiming exemption and the proceeds from
the sale of its property are devoted exclusively to the
purposes for which it is organized;

 
(4) The institution, organization or corporation
claiming exemption under this subsection shall file
with the tax assessors upon their request a report for
its preceding fiscal year in such detail as the tax
assessors may reasonably require;

 
(5) An exemption is not allowed under this subsection
in favor of an agricultural fair association holding
pari-mutuel racing meets unless it has qualified the
next preceding year as a recipient of a stipend from
the "Stipend Fund" provided in Title 7, section 62 86;

 
(6) An exemption allowed under paragraph A or B for real or
personal property owned and occupied or used to provide federally
subsidized residential rental housing is limited as follows:
Federally subsidized residential rental housing placed in service
prior to September 1, 1993 by other than a nonprofit housing
corporation that is acquired on or after September 1, 1993 by a
nonprofit housing corporation and the operation of which is not
an unrelated trade or


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