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Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 — Taxation

36 M.R.S. § 893

Tax collector liable to inhabitants

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A delinquent tax collector is at all times answerable to the inhabitants of the tax collector's municipality for all sums that they have been obliged to pay by means of the tax collector's deficiency and for all consequent damages.

Last amended: PL 2025, c. 113, Pt. D, §40 (AMD).

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In this chapter (40 sections)
  1. 844-F · Place of hearing
  2. 844-G · Appeal to State Board of Assessment Review
  3. 844-H · Hearing procedure
  4. 844-I · Production of documents
  5. 844-J · Evidence
  6. 844-K · Compensation
  7. 844-L · Appeal to the Superior Court
  8. 844-M · County board of assessment review
  9. 844-N · Primary assessing area board of assessment review
  10. 845 · Appeals; to Superior Court
  11. 846 · -- hearing
  12. 847 · -- Commissioner's hearing and report
  13. 848 · -- Trial
  14. 848-A · Assessment ratio evidence
  15. 849 · -- judgment and execution
  16. 850 · Assessment of costs
  17. 891 · Collection of delinquent county taxes
  18. 891-A · School subsidies withheld from delinquent municipalities
  19. 892 · Interest on delinquent state taxes
  20. 892-A · Interest on delinquent county taxes
  21. 893 · Tax collector liable to inhabitants
  22. 894 · Delinquent tax collectors; fine
  23. 895 · Warrant form; for completion of collection by treasurer
  24. 896 · Personal property distrained; sold as on execution
  25. 897 · Real estate levied on; sold as on execution
  26. 898 · Tax collector to account when taken on execution
  27. 899 · Municipalities may choose another tax collector
  28. 900 · Payments to former tax collector in dispute; procedure
  29. 901 · Remedy of owners of property taken for default of others
  30. 902 · Amendments permitted in actions to collect taxes
  31. 903 · Defendant estopped to deny title; exceptions
  32. 904 · Treasurer's receipt as evidence of redemption
  33. 905 · Municipalities may set off moneys due against taxes
  34. 906 · Application of payments to unpaid taxes
  35. 941 · Civil action with special attachments; procedure
  36. 942 · Tax lien certificate; procedure
  37. 942-A · Aggregate tax lien certificate for time-share units; procedure
  38. 943 · Tax lien mortgage; redemption; discharge; foreclosure
  39. 943-A · Application for abatement
  40. 943-B · Credit reporting; payment during redemption period
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