Maine Mineral Value and Municipal Property Tax Reimbursement, Constitutional Amendment 8 (1983)
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The Maine Mineral Value and Municipal Property Tax Reimbursement Referendum, also known as Constitutional Amendment 8, was on the November 8, 1983 ballot in Maine as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment, where it was approved.[1] The measure permitted the legislature to reimburse municipalities for more than 50 percent of the property tax revenues loss caused by the enactment of statutory property tax exemptions or credits. It also permitted, but did not require, the legislature to reimburse municipalities for statutory property tax exemptions or credits for unextracted minerals. The measure also extended a penalty for a change in use of property to be determined without considering the presence of minerals in that property, so long as the mining of minerals would have been subject to a state excise tax at the time the determination of change of use was made. This amended Section 23 of Article IV, Part Third and Section 8 of Article IX of the Maine Constitution.[2][3]
Background
In 1978, a legislatively referred constitutional amendment was passed that required the state to reimburse municipalities each year for one-half of the property tax losses suffered by that municipality during the previous calendar year because of statutory property tax exemptions and credits enacted after April 1, 1978.[1][4]
Election results
| Maine Constitutional Amendment 8 (1983) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 140,680 | 52.89% | ||
| No | 125,309 | 47.11% | ||
Election results via: Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library, Proposed Constitutional Amendments 1820-
Text of measure
The language appeared on the ballot as:[3]
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"Shall the Constitution of Maine be amended to change the municipal property tax loss reimbursement provisions and to change the penalty payable upon the change of use of land containing minerals which is being valued at current use?" [5] |
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Constitutional changes
The full text of the constitutional changes made by this measure can be read here.
Similar measures
- Maine Municipal Reimbursement of Property Tax Losses, Proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 5 (1978)
See also
- Maine 1983 ballot measures
- 1983 ballot measures
- List of Maine ballot measures
- History of Initiative & Referendum in Maine
External links
- Bangor Daily News, "State of Maine Special Election November 8, 1983: Important Notice to All Voters of the State of Maine," November 1, 1983
- Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library, Proposed Constitutional Amendments 1820-
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library, "Proposed Constitutional Amendments 1820-," accessed April 23, 2014
- ↑ Bangor Daily News, "State of Maine Special Election November 8, 1983: Important Notice to All Voters of the State of Maine," November 1, 1983
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Constitutional Resolutions of the State of Maine as Passed at the First Regular Session of the One Hundred and Eleventh Legislature, 1983, "Chapter 2," accessed April 23, 2014
- ↑ Constitutional Resolutions of the State of Maine As Passed at the First Regular Session of the One Hundred and Eighth Legislature, "Chapter 5," accessed April 21, 2014
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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