Maine Statutes
§ 23 §3601 — Apportionment of damages or benefits
Maine § 23 §3601
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Bluebook
Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 23, § 23 §3601 (2026).
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Whenever the city government lays out any new street or public way, or widens or otherwise alters or discontinues any street or way in a city, and decides that any persons or corporations are entitled to damage therefor, and estimates the amount thereof to each in the manner provided by law, it may apportion the damages so estimated and allowed, or such part thereof as to it seems just, upon the lots adjacent to and bounded on such street or way, other than those for which damages are allowed, in such proportions as in its opinion such lots are benefited or made more valuable by such laying out or widening, alteration or discontinuance, not exceeding in case of any lot the amount of such benefit, but the whole assessment shall not exceed the damages so allowed. Before such assessment is ma
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Nearby Sections
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§ 23 §3601
Apportionment of damages or benefits§ 23 §3602
Notification to owners§ 23 §3603
Board of arbitration§ 23 §3604
Collection procedure§ 23 §3605
Action for collection; amount recovered§ 23 §3606
Assessment for improvements§ 23 §3607
Damages for raising or lowering streets§ 23 §3652
Notice of defect; hearing on petition§ 23 §3653
Manner of presenting petition§ 23 §3657
Loads exceeding 6 tons; no liability§ 23 §3658
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Bluebook (online)
Maine § 23 §3601, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/statute/me/23%20%C2%A73601.