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CITY OF AUGUSTA v. INHABITANTS OF TOWN OF ALNA

370 A.2d 1381 (1977)

CITY OF AUGUSTA v. INHABITANTS of the TOWN OF ALNA, et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

March 17, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sanborn, Moreshead, Schade & Dawson by Peter T. Dawson, Augusta, for plaintiff.

Joseph M. Kozak, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Health & Welfare, Augusta, for Dept. of Human Services.

David B. Soule, Jr., Wiscasset, for Town of Alna.

Before DUFRESNE, C. J., and POMEROY, WERNICK, ARCHIBALD, DELAHANTY and GODFREY, JJ.

WERNICK, Justice.

This case presents a question of statutory interpretation concerning the transition from the traditional "poor laws" which operated as a fundamentally municipal system (22 M.R.S.A. §§ 4451-4494) to the new program of "general relief" based on State reimbursement (22 M.R.S.A. §§ 4450-4508, as effective October 3, 1973).

Defendant Department of Human Services (Department) has appealed from a judgment, ordered entered by...

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