Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 782 – Agency directors
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A director must be appointed for each municipal and county or regional emergency management agency. A director of an emergency management agency may not be at the same time an executive officer or member of the executive body of a municipality or interjurisdictional or county or regional agency of the State or a county commissioner. Notwithstanding this section or any other law, a town manager or administrative assistant may also be appointed to serve as the director of an emergency management agency. A director may be removed by the appointing authority for cause. [PL 2003, c. 510, Pt. A, §35 (RPR).]
1. Municipal emergency management director. The municipal officers shall appoint the director of the municipality’s emergency management agency. In each municipality that has not established an agency of its own, the municipal officers shall designate an emergency management director to facilitate cooperation in the work of disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. The emergency management director shall serve as liaison to the appropriate county or regional agency.
[PL 2003, c. 510, Pt. A, §35 (RPR).]
Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 782
- Disaster: means the occurrence or imminent threat of widespread or severe damage, injury or loss of life or property resulting from any natural or man-made cause, including, but not limited to, fire, flood, earthquake, wind, storm, wave action, oil spill or other water contamination requiring emergency action to avert danger or damage, epidemic, extreme public health emergency pursuant to Title 22, section 802, subsection 2-A, air contamination, blight, drought, critical material shortage, infestation, explosion, riot or hostile military or paramilitary action. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 703
- Emergency management: means the coordination and implementation of an organized effort to mitigate against, prepare for, respond to and recover from a disaster. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 703
- Mitigation: means those activities that actually eliminate or reduce the chance of occurrence or the effects of a disaster. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 703
- Municipal officers: means the mayor and municipal officers or councilors of a city, the members of the select board or councilors of a town and the assessors of a plantation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- Municipality: includes cities, towns and plantations, except that "municipality" does not include plantations in Title 10, chapter 110, subchapter IV; or Title 30?A, Part 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- Preparedness: means planning how to respond in case an emergency or disaster occurs and working to increase resources available to respond effectively. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 703
- Recovery: means activities that, in the short term, return vital life support systems to minimum operating standards and, in the long term, redevelop a disaster area to preexisting conditions or to conditions that are less disaster prone and activities that assist families and businesses to return to a normal or improved state of being. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 703
- Response: means those activities designed to provide emergency assistance to victims of a disaster and reduce the likelihood of secondary damage. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 703
- Town: includes cities and plantations, unless otherwise expressed or implied. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
2. County agency director. The county commissioners shall appoint the director of that county’s emergency management agency.
[PL 2003, c. 510, Pt. A, §35 (RPR).]
3. Interjurisdictional and regional agency directors. The director of an interjurisdictional or regional emergency management agency must be appointed in the manner prescribed by the director in accordance with section 781, subsection 3.
[PL 2003, c. 510, Pt. A, §35 (RPR).]
4. Annual meeting with Director of the Maine Emergency Management Agency. The director of each county or regional organization for emergency management in the State and the respective appointing authority shall meet each year with the Director of the Maine Emergency Management Agency or the agency’s successor, in order to review the performance of the county or regional emergency management organization in carrying out its federal and state mandate and to jointly set new goals for the coming year.
[PL 2003, c. 510, Pt. A, §35 (RPR).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1983, c. 460, §3 (NEW). PL 1987, c. 582, §B6 (AMD). PL 1991, c. 324, §§1,2 (AMD). PL 1991, c. 376, §66 (AMD). PL 2001, c. 614, §14 (AMD). PL 2001, c. 662, §83 (AMD). PL 2003, c. 510, §A35 (RPR).