PUBLIC LAWS
Second Regular Session of the 122nd

CHAPTER 683, PART D

     Sec. D-1. 25 MRSA §1534, as enacted by PL 2005, c. 519, Pt. OO, §1, is amended to read:

§1534.   Consolidated Emergency Communications Fund

     The Consolidated Emergency Communications Fund is created as an enterprise fund for the deposit of any payments made by municipal, county and state governmental entities in Kennebec County. The fund may not lapse but must be carried forward to carry out the purposes of this chapter.

     Sec. D-2. PL 2005, c. 519, Pt. OO, §§2 and 3 are amended to read:

     Sec. OO-2. Transfer budget and positions. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Budget Officer at the request of the Commissioner of Public Safety and the Maine Communications System Policy Board may transfer position counts and available balances by financial order to the Consolidated Emergency Services Communication Communications Bureau within the Department of Public Safety. These transfers are considered adjustments to authorized position counts, appropriations and allocations in fiscal year 2006-07. The State Budget Officer shall provide the Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs a report of the transferred amounts no later than September 1, 2006.

     Sec. OO-3. Establish positions. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Consolidated Emergency Services Communication Communications Bureau within the Department of Public Safety may establish positions by financial order when municipal, county and state governmental entities in Kennebec County voluntarily consolidate communications systems with the bureau's communications systems. The financial order must identify the entity entering the consolidation and the position or positions being eliminated by that entity. In order for a position that is established by financial order to become permanent, it must be presented to the next session of the Legislature through the normal budgetary process. These positions must be funded by the entity and reimbursement funds for Personal Services, All Other and Capital Expenditures must be made to the Consolidated Emergency Communications Fund established in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 25, section 1534.

     Sec. D-3. Retroactivity. This Part applies retroactively to March 29, 2006.

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