CHAPTER 340

H.P. 1113 - L.D. 1520

An Act To Amend the Motor Vehicle Laws

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 29-A MRSA §555, sub-§2-B, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 507, §1, is amended to read:

2-B. Participation in federal pilot program; temporary exemptions from hours-of-service regulations. The Commissioner of Public Safety shall bureau may grant temporary exemptions from the weekly restrictions in the intrastate hours-of-service regulations for the transportation of home heating oil during the winter months for the purpose of enabling intrastate motor carriers conducting such operations to do so under terms and conditions identical to those used in the Pilot Program for Drivers Delivering Home Heating Oil published in the Federal Register Vol. 66, No. 135. Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection are routine technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter II-A 2-A.

Sec. 2. 29-A MRSA §1769, sub-§2, as repealed and replaced by PL 1999, c. 183, §4, is amended to read:

2. Review of rules by Legislature. Rules adopted under this section are major substantive routine technical rules pursuant to Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter II-A 2-A.

Sec. 3. 29-A MRSA §1909-A is enacted to read:

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