The purpose of establishing the board is to enable municipalities that have fallen into financial difficulties to receive assistance from the State and to be reestablished on a sound financial basis and to assure the State of the collection of the taxes due from those municipalities to the State. [PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. C, §106 (NEW); PL 1989, c. 6 (AMD); PL 1989, c. 9, §2 (AMD); PL 1989, c. 104, Pt. C, §§8, 10 (AMD).]