{"data":{"id":"us-me/30-a-m.r.s.-5723","jurisdiction":"us-me","citation":"30-A M.R.S. §5723","heading":"Public works","body":"A municipality may raise or appropriate money to:\n1.  Parks and construction projects.  Provide for public buildings, ways, bridges, parks, parking places, sewers and drains;\n2.  Dumps.  Provide for public dumps either within or outside its boundaries;\n3.  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;\n4.  Flood control.  Provide for projects which have been approved by the Governor for improving navigation or preventing property damage by erosion or flood;\n5.  Fuel yard.  Provide a fuel yard for the purpose of selling fuel to its residents without financial profit to itself; and\n6.  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.","path":["TITLE 30-A: MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES","PART 2: MUNICIPALITIES","CHAPTER 223: MUNICIPAL FINANCES","SUBCHAPTER 4: EXPENDITURES"],"source_url":"https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/30-A/title30-Asec5723.html","current_through":"October 1, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:12:36Z","sha256":"3f884a148bdfadd71ce464f1689e557139ffd30a4754ee54bc0f667695a2191f","source_id":"us-me","stale":false,"prev":"us-me/30-a-m.r.s.-5722","next":"us-me/30-a-m.r.s.-5724"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}