§781. Municipal, county and regional agencies 1. Municipal or interjurisdictional agencies. Each municipality of the State must be served by a municipal or interjurisdictional agency responsible for emergency management. A. [PL 2003, c. 510, Pt. C, §14 (RP).] B. [PL 2003, c. 510, Pt. C, §14 (RP).] C. [PL 2003, c. […]
§782. Agency directors 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 […]
§783. Disaster emergency plan Each municipality, county and regional emergency management agency shall prepare and keep a current disaster emergency plan for the area subject to its jurisdiction. The plan must be approved by the jurisdiction’s governing body. The plan must follow the risk assessment and planning guidance provided by the director under section 704, […]
§784-A. Right to call for and employ assistance The Maine Emergency Management Agency and local organizations for emergency management may employ any person considered necessary to assist with emergency management activities. All persons called and employed for assistance shall proceed as directed by the Maine Emergency Management Agency or the local organization. Any person called […]
§784-B. Maine First Responders State-wide Mutual Aid Agreement All political subdivisions within the State are covered by the Maine First Responders State-wide Mutual Aid Agreement, dated November 2008, as drafted by the agency and referred to in this section as “the agreement,” except that a political subdivision may withdraw from the agreement by enacting a […]
§784. Mutual aid arrangements The director of each local organization for emergency management shall, in collaboration with other public and private agencies within the State, develop or cause to be developed mutual aid arrangements for reciprocal emergency management aid and assistance in case of a disaster too great to be dealt with unassisted. These arrangements […]
§785. State Civil Service Appeals Board services Local emergency management agencies organized pursuant to this subchapter may accept the services of the Bureau of Human Resources and adopt board rules for the purpose of qualifying for federal funds. The Bureau of Human Resources may enter into agreements with the emergency management agencies for the purpose […]
§786. Enforcement 1. Law enforcement officers. Duly appointed law enforcement officers of local, state and sheriffs’ organizations are empowered to enforce any of the provisions of this chapter or any rules promulgated thereunder in times of an emergency or during authorized alerts, including partial or full mobilization necessary to carry out section 742. Failure to […]
