LD 1600
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emergency that requires specialized personnel or equipment of the
Maine National Guard to prevent human suffering, increased health
risk or loss of life, the Governor or the Governor's designee may
order into active state service the necessary personnel and
equipment of the Maine National Guard. Human health emergencies
may include medical evacuation and search and rescue under Title
6, section 303 and Title 12, section 7035 10105, which may
include providing emergency helicopter airlift service. Any
person ordered into active state service, for the purposes of
this subsection, is considered a state employee for purposes of
the Maine Tort Claims Act and that person's liability is limited
by that Act.

 
Sec. B-70. 38 MRSA §423, as amended by PL 1989, c. 502, Pt. B, §49,
is further amended to read:

 
§423. Discharge of waste from watercraft

 
No A person, firm, corporation or other legal entity may not
discharge, spill or permit to be discharged sewage, garbage or
other pollutants from watercraft, as defined in Title 12, section
7791 13001, subsection 14 28, and including houseboats, into
inland waters of this State, or on the ice thereof of inland
waters, or on the banks thereof of inland waters in such a manner
that the same may fall or be washed into such waters, or in such
manner that the drainage therefrom from the sewage, garbage or
other pollutants may flow into such waters.

 
Any watercraft, as defined in Title 12, section 7791 13001,
subsection 14 28, including houseboats, operated upon the inland
waters of this State and having a permanently installed sanitary
waste disposal system shall must have securely affixed to the
interior discharge opening of such sanitary waste disposal system
a holding tank or suitable container for holding sanitary waste
material so as to prevent its discharge or drainage into the
inland waters of the State.

 
Sec. B-71. 38 MRSA §480-R, sub-§2, as amended by PL 1989, c. 546, §7
and affected by c. 890, Pt. A, §40 and amended by Pt. B, §82, is
further amended to read:

 
2. Enforcement. In addition to department staff, inland
fisheries and wildlife game wardens, Department of Marine
Resources marine patrol officers and all other law enforcement
officers enumerated in Title 12, section 7055, 10401 shall
enforce the terms of this article.

 
Sec. B-72. 38 MRSA §1861, sub-§3, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 434, Pt.
A, §7, is amended to read:


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