2. Advisory council. The advice and consent of the advisory council shall is not be required prior to an emergency adoption of a rule or amendment to a rule.

3. Effective period. Any emergency regulation shall be rule is effective only for 90 days, or any lesser period of time specified in the emergency regulation rule. After the expiration of the emergency period, the regulation shall not thereafter rule may only be adopted except in the manner as provided by section 6191. This subsection shall does not apply to emergency regulations rules authorized under section 6172, which shall be are effective until repealed.

4. Effective date. Except as provided in this subsection, emergency regulations rules become effective immediately upon publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the area of the State affected, provided it is those rules are submitted to the Attorney General and filed with the Secretary of State as required under the Maine Administrative Procedure Act, Title 5, chapter 375, within the next business day following publication.

Notwithstanding any provisions of the Maine Administrative Procedure Act, an emergency regulation rule authorized by section 6172, subsection 2 or 3 is effective immediately upon signature by the commissioner or the commissioner's authorized designee. Upon signing an emergency regulation rule that closes or opens an area or waters to the taking of marine organisms, the commissioner or the commissioner's authorized designee shall give oral notice of that action to local governmental authorities and shall publish notice of a closure as soon as possible in a newspaper of general circulation in the area of the State affected. Marine patrol officers shall take action to prevent taking of shellfish from a closed area, including the embargo of