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their political subdivisions, and coordinate mutual aid plans | | between political subdivisions of the State.__If an | | arrangement is entered into with a jurisdiction that has | | enacted the Interstate Civil Defense and Disaster Compact, | | chapter 15, the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, | | chapter 16, or the International Emergency Management | | Assistance Compact, chapter 16-A, any resulting agreement or | | agreements may be considered supplemental agreements pursuant | | to those compacts.__If the other jurisdiction or jurisdictions | | with which the Governor proposes to cooperate have not enacted | | one of those compacts, the Governor may negotiate special | | agreements with the jurisdiction or jurisdictions.__Any | | agreement, if sufficient authority for its making does not | | otherwise exist, becomes effective only after approval by the | | Legislature; and |
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| | | H.__Delegate any authority vested in the Governor under this | | chapter and provide for the subdelegation of that authority. |
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| | | Sec. A-35. 37-B MRSA §782, as amended by PL 2001, c. 614, §14 and c. | | 662, §83, is repealed and the following enacted in its place: |
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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 |
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