§549. Personnel and equipment
The commissioner shall establish and maintain at such ports within the State, and other places as the commissioner determines, employees and equipment necessary to carry out this subchapter. The commissioner, subject to the Civil Service Law, may employ personnel necessary to carry out the purposes of this subchapter, and shall prescribe the duties of those employees. The salaries of those employees and the cost of that equipment must be paid from the Maine Ground and Surface Waters Clean-up and Response Fund established by this subchapter. The commissioner and the Director of the Division of Geology, Natural Areas and Coastal Resources shall periodically consult with each other relative to procedures for the prevention of oil discharges into the coastal waters of the State from offshore drilling production facilities. Inspection and enforcement employees of the department in their line of duty under this subchapter have the powers of a constable. [PL 2015, c. 319, §15 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1969, c. 572, §1 (NEW). PL 1971, c. 544, §134 (AMD). PL 1971, c. 618, §12 (AMD). PL 1979, c. 541, §A267 (AMD). PL 1983, c. 483, §10 (AMD). PL 1985, c. 496, §A12 (AMD). PL 1985, c. 785, §B178 (AMD). PL 1989, c. 890, §§A40,B115 (AMD). PL 1995, c. 502, §E32 (AMD). PL 1999, c. 556, §36 (AMD). PL 2011, c. 655, Pt. KK, §29 (AMD). PL 2011, c. 655, Pt. KK, §34 (AFF). PL 2013, c. 405, Pt. C, §23 (AMD). PL 2015, c. 319, §15 (AMD).
Structure Maine Revised Statutes
TITLE 38: WATERS AND NAVIGATION
Chapter 3: PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF WATERS
Subchapter 2-A: OIL DISCHARGE PREVENTION AND POLLUTION CONTROL
38 §543. Pollution and corruption of waters and lands of the State prohibited
38 §544. Powers and duties of the board
38 §545. Operation without license prohibited
38 §545-A. Underground oil storage facilities (REPEALED)
38 §545-B. Registration of transportation of oil in inland areas
38 §546. Regulatory powers of department
38 §546-A. State marine oil spill contingency plan
38 §546-B. Sensitive area identification and protection
38 §546-C. Wildlife rehabilitation plan
38 §547. Emergency proclamation; Governor's powers
38 §548. Removal of prohibited discharges
38 §549. Personnel and equipment
38 §550. Enforcement; penalties
38 §551. Maine Ground and Surface Waters Clean-up and Response Fund
38 §551-A. Oil Spill Advisory Committee (REPEALED)
38 §552-A. Detention of vessels
38 §552-B. Financial responsibility and facility closure
38 §553. Interstate Compact, authority
38 §554. Reports to the Legislature (REPEALED)