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commissioners must be submitted to the legal voters in the next | | regular election or a special election called for that purpose. | | The election must be held within 45 days of the submission of the | | petition. The election must be called, advertised and conducted | | according to the law relating to municipal elections, except that | | the registrar of voters is not required to prepare or the clerk to | | post a new list of voters, the filing requirement contained in | | section 2528 does not apply and absentee ballots must be prepared | | and made available at least 14 days prior to the date of the | | referendum. For the purpose of registration of voters, the | | registrar of voters must be in session the secular day preceding | | the election. The voters shall indicate by a cross or check mark | | placed against the word "Yes" or "No" their opinion on the article. | | The results must be declared by the county commissioners and | | entered upon the county records. |
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| | | Sec. WW-11. 30-A MRSA §5721-A, sub-§1, ¶D, as enacted by PL 2005, c. | | 2, Pt. C, §1 and affected by §§3 and 4, is amended to read: |
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| | | D. "Property tax levy" means the total annual municipal | | appropriations, excluding assessments properly issued by a | | county of which the municipality is a member and amounts | | governed by and appropriated in accordance with Title 20-A, | chapter 606-B, appropriated as the local share of the cost | of essential programs and services under Title 20-A, chapter | 606-B, | | issued by a school administrative unit or tuition for | | students or amounts attributable to a tax increment | | financing district agreement or similar special tax | | district, reduced by all resources available to fund those | | appropriations other than the property tax. |
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| | | Sec. WW-12. 30-A MRSA §5721-A, sub-§7, ¶B, as enacted by PL 2005, c. | | 2, Pt. C, §1 and affected by §§3 and 4, is amended to read: |
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| | | B. If the municipal budget is adopted by a town council or city | | council, the property tax levy limit may be exceeded only by a | | majority vote of all the elected members of the town council or | | city council on a separate article that specifically identifies | | the intent to exceed the property tax levy limit. Unless a | | municipal charter otherwise provides or prohibits a petition and | | referendum process, if a written petition, signed by at least 10% | | of the number of voters voting in the last gubernatorial election | | in the municipality, requesting a vote on the question of | | exceeding the property tax levy limit is submitted to the | | municipal officers within 30 days of the council's vote pursuant | | to this paragraph, the article voted on by the council must be |
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