Title 23, Title 23

The authority is authorized to provide by resolution for the issuance of turnpike revenue refunding bonds of the authority, including notes or other obligations defined as bonds under this chapter for the purpose of refunding any bonds then outstanding, including the payment of a…

1. Maintenance and repair. The turnpike shall be maintained and repaired by and under the control of the authority and, at the discretion of the authority, the services of the Department of Transportation, as far as the services are available or expedient, may be utilized for thi…

1. Expenditures. Expenditure of all tolls collected from the Maine Turnpike toll facilities and all other revenues derived from the turnpike operations after the effective date of this chapter shall be limited to the following purposes: A. Maintenance, repair and operation of the…

Except as may otherwise be provided in a bond resolution or trust indenture or loan or security agreement, in the event that the authority shall default in the payment of principal or interest on any of its bonds after the principal or interest falls due and that default shall co…

Prior to the issuance of any bonds, the authority may issue interim certificates in such manner and with such conditions as the authority may determine to be exchanged for the bonds when issued.

Subject to any agreement with the bondholders, all revenue received from the operation of the turnpike after deducting expenditures required for the construction, reconstruction, operation and maintenance of the turnpike and for the payment of the principal and the interest on th…

The authority shall not be dissolved until such time as: [PL 1981, c. 595, §3 (NEW).] 1. Legislature provide for termination. The Legislature shall provide for its termination; and 2. Payment of bonds, premiums and interest. All bonds, the premium, if any, and the interest thereo…

It is declared that the purposes of this chapter are public and that the authority shall be regarded as performing a governmental function in the carrying out of the provisions of this chapter.

Regulatory rules and laws shall be observed as follows. [PL 1981, c. 595, §3 (NEW).] 1. Traffic infraction. Except as provided in subsection 1‑A, a violation of published rules relating to the turnpike or its use or services is a traffic infraction and is punishable by a fine of …

This chapter shall take effect when approved, except that the authority may not, at any time before any bonds outstanding on the effective date and the interest thereon shall have been paid or a sufficient amount for the payment of any such bonds, premium, if any, and the interes…

A log or record identifying the name, address or travel patterns of a patron of the turnpike, whether prepared for enforcement of authority tolls or other purposes of the authority, is for the exclusive use of the authority in the discharge of its duties under this chapter. This …

The authority is authorized to enter from time to time into agreements with another party, on terms and conditions that the authority determines are necessary or convenient, in which the authority agrees to make a payment to, or to receive a payment from, the other party based on…

Organized plantations have like powers and are subject to like liabilities and penalties as towns, respecting ways. Their assessors have like powers and shall perform like duties as municipal officers of towns, respecting them.

A person entitled to receive payment of damages or costs may, after 30 days from demand on the treasurer of the county or town or on the party liable therefor, recover them in a civil action.

Purchasers of land sold for nonpayment of assessments for opening and making roads have no claim against the county for any defect in the title under such sale, notwithstanding any irregularities in the proceedings or failure to comply with the law under which the sales were made…

Any person having a legal interest in a tract so advertised, sold or forfeited may redeem his interest by paying within the times prescribed the amount so required to discharge the claim thereon. The rate of interest upon unpaid assessments by county commissioners for opening and…

Whenever the location of any state, state aid or town way that was designated as a 3rd class highway at the time the 3rd class highway designations were rescinded is changed, added to, discontinued or a new location is established within a county, the county commissioners of said…

1. Layout, maintenance and discontinuance of roads in unorganized areas. County commissioners may lay out, alter, close for maintenance or discontinue highways within the unorganized areas of their counties and grade hills in such a highway. The county commissioners may close a c…

Being satisfied that the petitioners are responsible and that an inquiry into the merits is expedient, the county commissioners shall cause 30 days' notice to be given of the time and place of their meeting by posting copies of the petition, with their order thereon, in 3 public …

When their decision is against the prayer of the petitioners, the county commissioners shall order them to pay to the treasurer of the county, at a time fixed, all expenses incurred on account of it, and if they are not then paid, they shall issue a warrant of distress against th…

The county commissioners shall meet at the time and place appointed and view the way, and there, or at a place in the vicinity, hear the parties interested. If they judge the way to be of common convenience and necessity or that any existing way shall be altered, graded or discon…

The return of the commissioners, made at their next regular statute session after the hearing provided for in section 2054, shall be placed on file and remain in the custody of their clerk for inspection without record. The case shall be continued to their next regular term of re…

When a notice of appeal for increase of damages is presented within the time allowed, the case shall be further continued until a final decision respecting damages is made. If the county commissioners then are of opinion that their proceedings, or any part thereof, ought not to t…

If any person's property is damaged by laying out, altering or discontinuing a county highway, the county commissioners shall estimate the amount, and in their return state the share of each separately. Damages shall be determined as if the land were taken for highway purposes un…

Any person aggrieved by the estimate of damages by the county commissioners, on account of the laying out or discontinuing of a way, may appeal therefrom, at any time within 30 days after the commissioners' return is made, to the Superior Court, in the county where the land is si…

The owners of land taken under sections 2051 to 2060 shall be allowed not exceeding one year after the proceedings regarding the location are finally closed to take off timber, wood or any erection thereon. A time not exceeding 2 years shall be allowed for making and opening the …

1. General procedures. When the Department of Transportation has constructed a highway over substantially the same route as that of a county or town way and has recorded the plans of that highway in the registry of deeds, the county commissioners or municipal officers may, on the…

When the way is discontinued before the time limited for the payment of damages, the commissioners may revoke their order of payment, and estimate the damages actually sustained and order them paid. Any person aggrieved may have them assessed by a committee or jury as provided.

Parties interested may appear, jointly or severally, at the time of hearing before the commissioners on a petition for laying out, altering, grading or discontinuing a highway. Any such party may appeal from their decision thereon within 30 days after it has been placed on file t…

If no person appears to prosecute the appeal provided for in section 2063, the judgment of the commissioners may be affirmed. If the appellant appears, the court may appoint a committee of 3 disinterested persons, who shall be sworn, and if one of them dies, declines or becomes i…

If the judgment of the commissioners in favor of laying out, grading or altering a way, as prayed for, is wholly reversed on appeal, they shall proceed no further. In all cases when the judgment of the commissioners is reversed on appeal, no petition praying substantially for the…

All such committees provided for in section 2064, whether agreed on or appointed on appeal from the county commissioners, may be sworn at any time before viewing the route and hearing the parties.

The county commissioners of any county may lay out, alter or discontinue paths or trails, for pedestrian use only, in the unorganized territory of the county which will provide a right of access to great ponds, provided a request therefor is made by petition signed by not less th…

When the true boundaries of highways or town ways duly located, or of which the location is lost, or which can only be established by user, are doubtful, uncertain or lost, the county commissioners of the county wherein such highway or town way is located, upon petition of the mu…

When a highway is laid out through a town and an agent appointed by the county commissioners to open and make it, and the record location thereof cannot be found on the face of the earth or consistently applied thereto or said agent is not making said highway according to the rec…

When a highway survey has not been properly recorded or preserved or the termination and boundaries cannot be ascertained, the select board or municipal officers of any municipality may use and control for highway purposes 1 1/2 rods on each side of the center of the traveled por…

When a petition is presented respecting a way in 2 or more counties, the commissioners receiving the petition, being satisfied as aforesaid, may call a meeting of the commissioners of all the counties, to be held at a time and place named, by causing an attested copy of such peti…

Each county must be represented at such meeting by a majority of its commissioners. A majority of those present may decide upon the whole matter. The duty of carrying that judgment into effect shall be performed in each county by its own commissioners in the manner respecting way…

When proceedings have been had by the county commissioners on a petition for laying out, altering, grading or discontinuing a way in 2 or more counties, an appeal may be taken in the manner provided in case of a way wholly in one county.

When an appeal is taken as provided for in section 2153, it shall be filed with the commissioners of, and subsequent proceedings shall be had in, the county where proceedings originated, and the commissioners with whom such appeal is filed shall immediately give notice of such ap…

The road commissioner, under the direction of a majority of the members of the select board, has charge of the repairs of all highways and bridges within the towns and has authority to employ the necessary personnel and equipment and purchase material for the repair of highways a…

Road commissioners shall go over the roads in their towns, or cause it to be done, in April, May, June, August, September, October and November in each year, remove the loose obstructions to the public travel and, whenever so directed by the select board, remove all shrubbery and…

The road commissioner shall keep accurate accounts, showing in detail all moneys paid out by him, to whom and for what purpose. He shall settle his accounts on or before the 20th day of February, annually, and the same shall be reported in the annual town report in detail.

Towns may authorize their road commissioners or other persons to make contracts for opening or repairing their ways.

When the amount appropriated is not sufficient to repair or maintain the ways, a road commissioner may, with the written consent of the municipal officers, pay an amount not exceeding 15% of the amount so appropriated in addition to the amount appropriated.

When a way is established on a line between towns, their municipal officers shall divide it crosswise and assign to each town its portion thereof by metes and bounds, which, within one year thereafter, being accepted by each town at a legal meeting, renders each town liable in th…