Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 549 – Personnel and equipment
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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 549
- Coastal waters: means all waters of the State within the rise and fall of the tide and to a distance of 12 miles from the coastline of the State but does not include areas above any fishway or dam when the fishway or dam is the dividing line between tidewater and fresh water. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 542
- Fund: means the Maine Ground and Surface Waters Clean-up and Response Fund. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 542
- Oil: means oil, oil additives, petroleum products and their by-products of any kind and in any form, including, but not limited to, petroleum, fuel oil, sludge, oil refuse, oil mixed with other wastes, liquid asphalt, bunker fuel, crude oils and all other liquid hydrocarbons regardless of specific gravity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 542
The commissioner shall establish and maintain at such ports within the State, and other places as the commissioner determines, employees and equipment necessary to carry out this subchapter. The commissioner, subject to the Civil Service Law, may employ personnel necessary to carry out the purposes of this subchapter, and shall prescribe the duties of those employees. The salaries of those employees and the cost of that equipment must be paid from the Maine Ground and Surface Waters Clean-up and Response Fund established by this subchapter. The commissioner and the Director of the Division of Geology, Natural Areas and Coastal Resources shall periodically consult with each other relative to procedures for the prevention of oil discharges into the coastal waters of the State from offshore drilling production facilities. Inspection and enforcement employees of the department in their line of duty under this subchapter have the powers of a constable. [PL 2015, c. 319, §15 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1969, c. 572, §1 (NEW). PL 1971, c. 544, §134 (AMD). PL 1971, c. 618, §12 (AMD). PL 1979, c. 541, §A267 (AMD). PL 1983, c. 483, §10 (AMD). PL 1985, c. 496, §A12 (AMD). PL 1985, c. 785, §B178 (AMD). PL 1989, c. 890, §§A40,B115 (AMD). PL 1995, c. 502, §E32 (AMD). PL 1999, c. 556, §36 (AMD). PL 2011, c. 655, Pt. KK, §29 (AMD). PL 2011, c. 655, Pt. KK, §34 (AFF). PL 2013, c. 405, Pt. C, §23 (AMD). PL 2015, c. 319, §15 (AMD).