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LD 82
PUBLIC Law, Chapter 431

Signed on 2011-07-06 00:00:00.0 - First Regular Session - 125th Maine Legislature
 
 
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An Act To Amend the Laws Governing County Jail Budgeting for York County

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

Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA §701, sub-§2-A,  as amended by PL 2009, c. 1, Pt. Q, §1, is further amended to read:

2-A. Tax assessment for correctional services.   The counties shall annually collect no more and no less than $62,452,804 $62,172,371 from municipalities for the provision of correctional services, excluding debt service, in accordance with this subsection.

The assessment to municipalities within each county may not be greater or less than the fiscal year 2007-08 county assessment for correctional-related expenditures, which is:

A. A sum of $4,287,340 in Androscoggin County;
B. A sum of $2,316,666 in Aroostook County;
C. A sum of $11,575,602 in Cumberland County;
D. A sum of $1,621,201 in Franklin County;
E. A sum of $1,670,136 in Hancock County;
F. A sum of $5,588,343 in Kennebec County;
G. A sum of $3,188,700 in Knox County;
H. A sum of $3,018,361 in Lincoln County;
I. A sum of $1,228,757 in Oxford County;
J. A sum of $5,919,118 in Penobscot County;
K. A sum of $878,940 in Piscataquis County;
L. A sum of $2,295,849 in Sagadahoc County;
M. A sum of $5,363,665 in Somerset County;
N. A sum of $2,832,353 in Waldo County;
O. A sum of $2,000,525 in Washington County; and
P. A sum of $8,667,248 $8,386,815 in York County.

Notwithstanding this subsection, the county assessment for correctional services-related expenditures in Somerset County must be set at the fiscal year 2009-10 level when the new Somerset County Jail is open and operating at a level sufficient to sustain the average daily number of inmates from Somerset County.

For the purposes of this subsection, "correctional services" includes the management services, personal services, contractual services, commodity purchases, capital expenditures and all other costs, or portions thereof, necessary to maintain and operate correctional services.

Sec. 2. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 2013.

Effective July 1, 2013.


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