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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST SPECIAL SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 1681H.P. 1116House of Representatives, April 17, 2025
An Act to Consider Municipal Shelter Facilities and Housing
Projects Essential for Public Health, Welfare and Safety by
Updating the Definition of "Public Service Infrastructure"
Reference to the Committee on Housing and Economic Development suggested and
ordered printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative LOOKNER of Portland.
Cosponsored by Senator CURRY of Waldo and
Representatives: ARATA of New Gloucester, DOUDERA of Camden, FARRIN of Jefferson,
Speaker FECTEAU of Biddeford, GERE of Kennebunkport, JULIA of Waterville, ROLLINS
of Augusta, SALISBURY of Westbrook. Page 1 - 132LR1279(01)
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5 facilities that are essential for public health, welfare and safety. Those facilities include,
6 without limitation, sewage treatment facilities, municipal water supply and treatment
7 facilities, solid waste facilities, public safety equipment and facilities, roads, traffic control
8 devices and other transportation facilities, sidewalks, trees, buried utility lines and other
9 streetscape improvements, parks and other open space or recreational areas, public access
10 to coastal and inland waters, geographic information systems, municipal shelter facilities
11 and housing projects managed and operated by a municipality or a municipal housing
12 authority, as defined in section 4702, subsection 10-A, and any other public facility that
13 benefits the public.
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15 This bill adds municipal shelter facilities and housing projects managed and operated
16 by a municipality or a municipal housing authority to the definition of "public service
17 infrastructure."
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