There Is a Newer Version of the Maine Revised Statutes
  1. 2025 Maine Rev. Stat.
  2. 2024 Maine Rev. Stat.
  3. 2023 Maine Rev. Stat.
  4. 2012 Maine Rev. Stat. (here)
  5. View All Versions
View Our Newest Version Here

2012 Maine Revised Statutes
TITLE 38: WATERS AND NAVIGATION
Chapter 3: PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF WATERS
38 §549. Personnel and equipment


38 ME Rev Stat § 549 (2012 through 125th Legis) What's This?

Subchapter 2-A: OIL DISCHARGE PREVENTION AND POLLUTION CONTROL

§549. Personnel and equipment

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 Coastal and Inland Surface Oil Clean-up Fund established by this subchapter. The commissioner and the Director of the Bureau 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. [2011, c. 655, Pt. KK, §29 (AMD); 2011, c. 655, Pt. KK, §34 (AFF).]

SECTION HISTORY

1969, c. 572, §1 (NEW). 1971, c. 544, §134 (AMD). 1971, c. 618, §12 (AMD). 1979, c. 541, §A267 (AMD). 1983, c. 483, §10 (AMD). 1985, c. 496, §A12 (AMD). 1985, c. 785, §B178 (AMD). 1989, c. 890, §§A40,B115 (AMD). 1995, c. 502, §E32 (AMD). 1999, c. 556, §36 (AMD). 2011, c. 655, Pt. KK, §29 (AMD). 2011, c. 655, Pt. KK, §34 (AFF).

Disclaimer: These codes may not be the most recent version. Maine may have more current or accurate information. We make no warranties or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the information contained on this site or the information linked to on the state site. Please check official sources.