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USA Statutes : maine
Title : Title 23. HIGHWAYS
Chapter : Chapter 311. FISCAL MATTERS
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Title 23 - §3551. Raising of money
Title 23: HIGHWAYS
Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW
Chapter 311: FISCAL MATTERS
Subchapter 1: APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES
§3551. Raising of money
Towns shall annually raise money to be expended on town ways and highways and for the repair of bridges, and the same shall
be assessed and collected as other town taxes and expended for said purposes by a road commissioner or commissioners.
The Revisor's Office cannot provide legal advice or
interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
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Office of the Revisor of Statutes
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State House Room 108
Augusta, Maine 04333-0007
This page created on: 2005-10-01
Title 23 - §3552. Expenditures to be spaced (REPEALED)
Title 23: HIGHWAYS
Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW
Chapter 311: FISCAL MATTERS
Subchapter 1: APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES
§3552. Expenditures to be spaced (REPEALED)
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advice, please consult
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Office of the Revisor of Statutes
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Augusta, Maine 04333-0007
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Title 23 - §3601. Apportionment of damages or benefits
Title 23: HIGHWAYS
Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW
Chapter 311: FISCAL MATTERS
Subchapter 2: ASSESSMENTS ON ABUTTING OWNERS
§3601. Apportionment of damages or benefits
Whenever the city government lays out any new street or public way, or widens or otherwise alters or discontinues any street
or way in a city, and decides that any persons or corporations are entitled to damage therefor, and estimates the amount thereof
to each in the manner provided by law, it may apportion the damages so estimated and allowed, or such part thereof as to it
seems just, upon the lots adjacent to and bounded on such street or way, other than those for which damages are allowed, in
such proportions as in its opinion such lots are benefited or made more valuable by such laying out or widening, alteration
or discontinuance, not exceeding in case of any lot the amount of such benefit, but the whole assessment shall not exceed
the damages so allowed. Before such assessment is made, notice shall be given to all persons interested of a hearing before
said city government, at a time and place specified, which notice shall be published in some newspaper in said city at least
one week before said hearing.
The Revisor's Office cannot provide legal advice or
interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
advice, please consult
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Office of the Revisor of Statutes
7 State House Station
State House Room 108
Augusta, Maine 04333-0007
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Title 23 - §3602. Notification to owners
Title 23: HIGHWAYS
Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW
Chapter 311: FISCAL MATTERS
Subchapter 2: ASSESSMENTS ON ABUTTING OWNERS
§3602. Notification to owners
After said assessment provided for in section 3601 has been made upon such lots or parcels and the amount fixed on each, the
same shall be recorded by the city clerk, and notice shall be given within 10 days after the assessment by delivering to each
owner of said assessed lots resident in said city a certified copy of such recorded assessment, or by leaving it at his last
and usual place of abode and by publishing the same 3 weeks successively in some newspaper published in said city, the first
publication to be within said 10 days. Said clerk within 10 days shall deposit in the post office of said city, postage paid,
a certified copy of such assessment directed to each owner or proprietor residing out of said city whose place of residence
is known to said clerk, and the certificate of said clerk shall be sufficient evidence of these facts, and in the registry
of deeds shall be the evidence of title in allowing or assessing damages and improvements, so far as notice is concerned.
The Revisor's Office cannot provide legal advice or
interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
advice, please consult
a qualified attorney.
Office of the Revisor of Statutes
7 State House Station
State House Room 108
Augusta, Maine 04333-0007
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Title 23 - §3603. Board of arbitration
Title 23: HIGHWAYS
Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW
Chapter 311: FISCAL MATTERS
Subchapter 2: ASSESSMENTS ON ABUTTING OWNERS
§3603. Board of arbitration
Any person not satisfied with the amount for which he is assessed under section 3601 may, within 10 days after service of
the notice provided for by section 3602 in either manner therein provided, by request in writing given to the city clerk,
have the assessment upon his lot or parcel of land determined by arbitration. The municipal officers shall nominate 6 persons
who are residents of said city, 2 of whom selected by the applicant with a 3rd resident person selected by said 2 persons
shall fix the sum to be paid by him, and the report of such referees, made to the clerk of said city and recorded by him,
shall be final and binding upon all parties. Said reference shall be had and their report made to said city clerk within 30
days from the time of hearing before the municipal officers as provided in section 3601.
The Revisor's Office cannot provide legal advice or
interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
advice, please consult
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Office of the Revisor of Statutes
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State House Room 108
Augusta, Maine 04333-0007
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Title 23 - §3604. Collection procedure
Title 23: HIGHWAYS
Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW
Chapter 311: FISCAL MATTERS
Subchapter 2: ASSESSMENTS ON ABUTTING OWNERS
§3604. Collection procedure
All assessments and charges made under sections 3601 to 3603, shall be certified by the municipal officers and filed with
the tax collector for collection. If the person assessed, within 30 days after written notice of the amount of such assessments
and charges, fails, neglects or refuses to pay said municipality the expense thereby incurred, a special tax in the amount
of such assessment and charges may be assessed by the municipal assessors upon each and every lot or parcel of land so assessed
and buildings upon the same, and such assessment shall be included in the next annual warrant to the tax collector for collection,
and shall be collected in the same manner as state, county and municipal taxes are collected.
The Revisor's Office cannot provide legal advice or
interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
advice, please consult
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Office of the Revisor of Statutes
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State House Room 108
Augusta, Maine 04333-0007
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Title 23 - §3605. Action for collection; amount recovered
Title 23: HIGHWAYS
Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW
Chapter 311: FISCAL MATTERS
Subchapter 2: ASSESSMENTS ON ABUTTING OWNERS
§3605. Action for collection; amount recovered
If said assessments under section 3601 are not paid and said city does not proceed to collect said assessments by a sale of
the lots or parcels of land upon which such assessments are made, or does not collect, or is in any manner delayed or defeated
in collecting such assessments by a sale of the real estate so assessed, then the said city, in the name of said city, may
maintain an action against the party so assessed for the amount of said assessment, as for money paid, laid out and expended,
in any court competent to try the same, and in such action may recover the amount of such assessment with 12% interest on
the same from the date of said assessment and costs.
The Revisor's Office cannot provide legal advice or
interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
advice, please consult
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Office of the Revisor of Statutes
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State House Room 108
Augusta, Maine 04333-0007
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Title 23 - §3606. Assessment for improvements
Title 23: HIGHWAYS
Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW
Chapter 311: FISCAL MATTERS
Subchapter 2: ASSESSMENTS ON ABUTTING OWNERS
§3606. Assessment for improvements
Whenever a majority of the abutters in number and value upon any street or road in the thickly settled portion of any city
or town shall in writing petition the city government or municipal officers of the town to improve said street or road by
grading, parking, curbing, graveling, macadamizing, paving or in any other way making a permanent street of the same, or any
part thereof, and to provide for the making and reconstructing of such street improvements, and such improvements are made,
23 of the cost thereof may be assessed on the property adjacent to and bounded on said street or road in the manner and with
the same right of appeal provided in sections 3601 to 3605, which are made applicable to such assessments.
The Revisor's Office cannot provide legal advice or
interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
advice, please consult
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Office of the Revisor of Statutes
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State House Room 108
Augusta, Maine 04333-0007
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Title 23 - §3607. Damages for raising or lowering streets
Title 23: HIGHWAYS
Part 3: LOCAL HIGHWAY LAW
Chapter 311: FISCAL MATTERS
Subchapter 2: ASSESSMENTS ON ABUTTING OWNERS
§3607. Damages for raising or lowering streets
When a way or street is raised or lowered by a road commissioner or person authorized to the injury of an owner of adjoining
land, he may within a year apply in writing to the municipal officers, and they shall view such way or street and assess the
damages, if any have been occasioned thereby, to be paid by the town. Any person aggrieved by said assessment may have them
determined, on complaint to the Superior Court, in the manner prescribed in section 3005. Said complaint shall be filed in
the Superior Court in the county where the land is situated within 60 days from the date of assessment.
The Revisor's Office cannot provide legal advice or
interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
advice, please consult
a qualified attorney.
Office of the Revisor of Statutes
7 State House Station
State House Room 108
Augusta, Maine 04333-0007
This page created on: 2005-10-01
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