CHAPTER 413

H.P. 412 - L.D. 557

An Act To Provide Relief from the Cost of Rescue Services

to Certain Communities

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA §461 is enacted to read:

§461.__State reimbursement for costs of rescue services supported

by communities with populations of less than 200

1.__Reimbursement for costs.__The State may reimburse communities with populations of less than 200 that have no Interstate 95 exit within the town limits of that town for those communities' costs of providing fire, ambulance or other rescue services for accidents that occur on Interstate 95.

2.__Reimbursement for Rescue Services Fund.__There is established within the Department of Public Safety the Reimbursement for Rescue Services Fund, referred to in this subsection as "the fund," as a dedicated fund to provide reimbursement for costs of rescue services as provided in subsection 1.__The Commissioner of Public Safety may accept money into the fund from gifts, grants, bequests and donations and any appropriation or allocation that the commissioner determines necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.