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their political subdivisions, and coordinate mutual aid plans | between political subdivisions of the State.__If an | arrangement is entered into with a jurisdiction that has | enacted the Interstate Civil Defense and Disaster Compact, | chapter 15, the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, | chapter 16, or the International Emergency Management | Assistance Compact, chapter 16-A, any resulting agreement or | agreements may be considered supplemental agreements pursuant | to those compacts.__If the other jurisdiction or jurisdictions | with which the Governor proposes to cooperate have not enacted | one of those compacts, the Governor may negotiate special | agreements with the jurisdiction or jurisdictions.__Any | agreement, if sufficient authority for its making does not | otherwise exist, becomes effective only after approval by the | Legislature; and |
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| H.__Delegate any authority vested in the Governor under this | chapter and provide for the subdelegation of that authority. |
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| | Sec. A-35. 37-B MRSA §782, as amended by PL 2001, c. 614, §14 and c. | 662, §83, is repealed and the following enacted in its place: |
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| | A director must be appointed for each municipal and county or | regional emergency management agency.__A director of an emergency | management agency may not be at the same time an executive | officer or member of the executive body of a municipality or | interjurisdictional or county or regional agency of the State or | a county commissioner. Notwithstanding this section or any other | law, a town manager or administrative assistant may also be | appointed to serve as the director of an emergency management | agency.__A director may be removed by the appointing authority | for cause. |
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| | 1.__Municipal emergency management director.__The municipal | officers shall appoint the director of the municipality's | emergency management agency.__In each municipality that has not | established an agency of its own, the municipal officers shall | designate an emergency management director to facilitate | cooperation in the work of disaster mitigation, preparedness, | response and recovery.__The emergency management director shall | serve as liaison to the appropriate county or regional agency. |
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| | 2.__County agency director.__The county commissioners shall | appoint the director of that county's emergency management | agency. |
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| | 3.__Interjurisdictional and regional agency directors.__The | director of an interjurisdictional or regional emergency |
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