Initiative: Effective October 1, 2002, provides funds to continue the pilot program for homeless youth conducted in Portland, Lewiston and Bangor at $125,000 $105,000 each.

Sec. 19. Resolve 2001, c. 112, §1, sub-§2 is amended to read:

2. The person was the owner of a vessel named on a sea urchin dragging license under Title 12, section 6748-A in 2001 2000 but not the person named on that license and the holder of that license did not authorize a transfer of the license pursuant to Title 12, section 6748-A, subsection 2-A;

Sec. 20. Retroactivity. That section of this Act that amends Resolve 2001, chapter 112 takes effect retroactively to April 9, 2002.

Emergency clause. In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this Act takes effect when approved.

SUMMARY

This bill makes the following corrections in the sections specified.

Section 1 clarifies that any errors in the numbering of subchapters or articles in the law, such as occurred in Public Law 2001, chapter 640, may be taken care of administratively and will ensure greater consistency in the future by allowing Roman numerals to be cited by their Arabic number equivalents.

Sections 2, 3 and 4 resolve a conflict created by the enactment of 2 subparagraphs with the same number designation by Public Law 2001, chapter 642 and chapter 652, correct a cross- reference to the subparagraphs being renumbered and provides an appropriate effective date.

Sections 5 and 6 correct an error in Public Law 2001, chapter 617 that imposed surcharges, fines and forfeitures imposed for violations of the animal welfare laws. The Joint Standing Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry intended that a $10 surcharge be added to the civil forfeiture imposed for civil violations of the animal welfare laws codified in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 7. The surcharge for