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94-391 - State Board of Property Tax Review
2001-2002 Regulatory Agenda
UMBRELLA-UNIT NUMBER:
94-391
AGENCY NAME: State Board of Property Tax Review
CONTACT PERSON:
Eric E. Wright, Chairman, 6 Micmac Lane, Brunswick, Maine 04011. Tel:
207-725-6760. E-mail: rlleew@blazenetme.net or Maine Community Policing
Institute, University of Maine At Augusta, 46 University Drive, Augusta,
Maine 04330. Tel: 207-621-3068. E-mail: wrighte@maine.edu
EMERGENCY RULES
ADOPTED SINCE THE LAST REGULATORY AGENDA: None
EXPECTED 2001-2002
RULE-MAKING ACTIVITY:
CHAPTER 101,
Subchapter II-A
TITLE: Property Tax Appeals
STATUTORY AUTHORITY: 36 M.R.S.A. § 271(2)(C)
PURPOSE OF PROPOSED RULE CHANGES: To correct technical and grammatical
errors and matters of style, to make the rules gender neutral, to amend
the rules where appropriate to conform to statutory changes, and to
establish sanctions for noncompliance with the Board's rules.
SCHEDULE FOR ADOPTION OF THE RULES: Publication and hearing by April
1, 2001
AFFECTED PARTIES: Municipalities; municipal tax assessors; municipal
officers; the State of Maine Bureau of Taxation; taxpayers, including
individuals, businesses, and organizations within the jurisdiction of
the Board; and the attorneys of such parties.
CONSENSUS-BASED RULE DEVELOPMENT: Not contemplated. Such procedures
are designed to avoid the filing of litigation in the District and Superior
Courts. The State Board of Property Tax Review is itself another mechanism
to avoid litigation in court. Further, we have found that parties to
property tax disputes on their own go far to attempt to settle any differences
and that they come to the Board only as necessary to resolve seriously
contested factual issues or to have rulings made on a questions of law.
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