2005 Maine Code - §909 — Evacuation--Article IX

    Plans for the orderly evacuation and reception of the civilian population as the result of an emergency or disaster shall be worked out from time to time between representatives of the party states and the various local civil emergency preparedness areas within them. Those plans shall include the manner of transporting such evacuees, the number of evacuees to be received in different areas, the manner in which food, clothing, housing and medical care will be provided, the registration of the evacuees, the providing of facilities for the notification of relatives or friends and the forwarding of the evacuees to other areas or the bringing in of additional materials or supplies. The plans shall provide that the party state receiving evacuees shall be reimbursed generally for the out-of-pocket expenses incurred in receiving and caring for those evacuees, for expenditures for transportation, food, clothing, medicines and medical care and like items. Those expenditures shall be reimbursed by the party state of which the evacuees are residents or by the United States Government under plans approved by it. After the termination of the emergency or disaster, the party state of which the evacuees are resident shall assume the responsibility for the support or repatriation of the evacuees. [1983, c. 460, § 3 (new).]