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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. |
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| | | 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. |
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| | | 2.__County agency director.__The county commissioners shall | | appoint the director of that county's emergency management | | agency. |
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| | | 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. |
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| | | 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. |
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| | | Sec. 56. 37-B MRSA §783, first ¶, as amended by PL 2001, c. 614, §15 | | and c. 662, §84, is repealed and the following enacted in its | | place: |
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| | | Each municipal, county and regional emergency management | | agency shall prepare and keep a current disaster emergency | | plan for the area subject to its jurisdiction. That plan must | | include without limitation: |
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