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Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 23, § 3035 (2026)

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Nothing in sections 3031 to 3034 may be construed to extend the period for the bringing of an action or for the doing of any other required act under any statute of limitations. Nothing in those sections may be construed to affect the nature of any right or interest which may be claimed in property to which those sections apply, or to affect the law regarding the sale, release or other disposition of such a right or interest.   [PL 1987, c. 385, §2 (NEW).]
Sections 3031 to 3034 shall be liberally construed to affect the legislative purpose of enhancing the merits of title to land by eliminating the possibility of ancient claims to proposed, unaccepted, unconstructed ways that are outstanding on the record but unclaimed.   [PL 1987, c. 385, §2 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1987, c. 385, §2 (NEW).
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Notes of Decisions
Cited in 8 cases, 1996–2020 · leading case: Fournier v. Elliott, 966 A.2d 410 (Me. 2009).
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Fournier v. Elliott, 966 A.2d 410 (Me. 2009). · cites it 3× “The purpose of the Act was to clarify title to “old, proposed, unaccepted streets shown on subdivision plans,” L.”
Driscoll v. Mains, 2005 ME 52 (Me. 2005). · cites it 2× “See 23 M.R.S.A. § 3035 (1992). Title 23 M.R.S.”
Glidden v. Belden, 684 A.2d 1306 (Me. 1996). “See 23 M.R.S.A. § 3035' (1992) (“Sections 3031 to 3034 shall be liberally construed to affect [sic] the legislative purpose of enhancing the merits of title to land by eliminating the possibility of ancient claims to proposed, unaccepted, unconstructed ways that are outstanding…”
Brooks v. Carson, 48 A.3d 224 (Me. 2012). “See generally 23 M.R.S. § 3035 (stating that sections 3031 to 3034 “shall be liberally construed to [e]ffect the legislative purpose of enhancing the merits of title to *230 land by eliminating the possibility of ancient claims to proposed, unaccepted, un-constructed ways that…”
Gloria Carignan v. Paul R. Dumas Jr., 2017 ME 15 (Me. 2017). “23 M.R.S. § 3035 (2016). [¶ 16] Section 3031 of the Act grants the public rights of incipient dedication to ways laid out in a recorded subdivision plan, but terminates those rights if the proposed way is not accepted by the municipality within twenty years from the date of…”
Brooks v. Carson (Me. Super. Ct 2011). · cites it 2× “The plain purpose of the statutory procedure is to balance the competing policy objectives of extinguishing unused and unnecessary rights in paper streets on the one hand, and protecting reasonable rights of access by subdivision lot owners to important resources on the otl1er…”
Kinderhaus North LLC v. Nicolas (Me. Super. Ct 2020). “See 23 M.R.S. § 3035. 8 unaccepted way deemed vacated under Section 3032 may record, in the registry of deeds where the subdivision plan is recorded, a confirmed copy of the notice set forth in Section 3033.”
Hartwell v. Town of Medway (Me. Super. Ct 2001). “23 M.R.S.A. § 3035. As is noted above, the legislature itself has built considerable delay into the process by which public and private claims can be terminated by passive operation of Statute.”
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