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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
A municipality may raise or appropriate money to:
1. Parks and construction projects. Provide for public buildings, ways, bridges, parks, parking places, sewers and drains;
2. Dumps. Provide for public dumps either within or outside its boundaries;
3. Cemeteries. Provide for public cemeteries; maintain private cemeteries established before 1880; care for graves of veterans and maintain fences around cemeteries in which veterans are buried;
4. Flood control. Provide for projects which have been approved by the Governor for improving navigation or preventing property damage by erosion or flood;
5. Fuel yard. Provide a fuel yard for the purpose of selling fuel to its residents without financial profit to itself; and
6. Water or sewer districts. Provide financial assistance to a water or sewer district which is a quasi-municipal corporation, within or outside, or partly within or outside, the corporate limits of the municipality to the extent that the assisted district serves the municipality providing assistance.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A. Municipalities and Counties § 5723. Public works - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/me/title-30-a-municipalities-and-counties/me-rev-st-tit-30-a-sect-5723/
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