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Sec. 30. 22 MRSA §5118, sub-§4, ¶C, as enacted by PL 1981, c. 470,
Pt. A, §117, is amended to read:

 
C. In the administration of the plan, there is a failure
to comply substantially with any such provision of
subsection 1, paragraphs A to I, the director shall notify
the area agency that no further payments from its
allotments under sections 306 337 and 5115 will be made to
the agency or, in his the director's discretion, that
further payments to the agency will be limited to projects
under or portions of the area plan not affected by the
failure, until he the director is satisfied that there
will no longer be any failure to comply. Until he the
director is so satisfied, no further payments may not be
made to the agency from its allotments under section 5115,
or payments may be limited to projects under or portions
of the area plan not affected by the failure. The director
shall, in accordance with regulations he shall prescribe
rules adopted by the director, disburse funds so withheld
directly to any public or nonprofit private organization
or agency of the area, submitting an approved plan in
accordance with section 5116. Any payment or payments
shall must be matched in the proportions specified in
section 5116.

 
Sec. 31. 22 MRSA §8103, sub-§1, as amended by PL 2001, c. 515, §1
and c. 596, Pt. B, §19 and affected by §25, is repealed and
the following enacted in its place:

 
1.__Procedures.__All procedures and other provisions
included in section 7855, subsections 1 and 2 for residential
care facilities also apply to children's homes, except that
the written statement referred to in section 7855, subsection
1 need not be furnished annually by the Commissioner of Public
Safety to the department for a facility licensed as a family
foster home or a specialized children's home.__In these
instances an inspection must be performed every 2 years.

 
Sec. 32. 24-A MRSA §2808-B, sub-§1, ¶D, as amended by PL 2001, c. 258,
Pt. E, §3 and c. 400, §1 and affected by §2, is repealed and
the following enacted in its place:

 
D.__"Eligible group" means any person, firm, corporation,
partnership, association or subgroup engaged actively in a
business that employed an average of 50 or fewer eligible
employees during the preceding calendar year.

 
(1)__If an employer was not in existence throughout the
preceding calendar year, the determination must be based on
the average number of employees that the


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