2025 Maine Revised Statutes
TITLE 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 1: SOVEREIGNTY AND JURISDICTION
1 §8. Transfer of legislative jurisdiction

§8. Transfer of legislative jurisdiction

1.  Notice.  In order to acquire all, or any measure of, legislative jurisdiction of the kind involved in the Constitution of the United States, Article I, Section 8, Clause 17 over any land or other area; or in order to relinquish such legislative jurisdiction, or any measure thereof, that may be vested in the United States; the United States acting through a duly authorized department, agency or officer shall file a notice of intention to acquire or relinquish such legislative jurisdiction, hereinafter called notice, together with a sufficient number of duly authenticated copies of the notice to meet the recording requirements of subsection 3, with the Governor. The notice must contain a description adequate to permit accurate identification of the boundaries of the land or other area for which the change in jurisdictional status is sought and a precise statement of the measure of legislative jurisdiction sought to be transferred. Immediately upon receipt of the notice, the Governor shall furnish the Attorney General with a copy of the notice and shall request the Attorney General's comments and recommendations on the notice.  

[PL 2019, c. 475, §1 (AMD).]

2.  Legislative approval of transfer of jurisdiction.  The Governor shall transmit the notice filed pursuant to subsection 1 together with the Governor's comments and recommendations, if any, and the comments and recommendations of the Attorney General, if any, to the next session of the Legislature that is constitutionally competent to consider the transfer of jurisdiction. Unless prior to the expiration of the legislative session to which the notice is transmitted the Legislature adopts an Act approving the transfer of legislative jurisdiction as proposed in the notice, the transfer does not take effect.  

[PL 2019, c. 475, §1 (AMD).]

3.  Recordation.  The Governor shall cause a duly authenticated copy of the notice and Act to be recorded in the registry of deeds of the county where the land or other area affected by the transfer of jurisdiction is situated, and upon such recordation the transfer of jurisdiction takes effect. If the land or other area is situated in more than one county, a duly authenticated copy of the notice and Act must be recorded in the registry of deeds of each such county.  

[PL 2019, c. 475, §1 (AMD).]

4.  Filing. 

[PL 1981, c. 456, Pt. A, §1 (RP).]

SECTION HISTORY

PL 1981, c. 456, §A1 (AMD). PL 2019, c. 475, §1 (AMD). RR 2019, c. 1, Pt. A, §78 (COR).