Resolve, Directing the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation To Convene a Working Group To Review the Laws and Rules Governing Boilers

Emergency preamble. Whereas,  acts and resolves of the Legislature do not become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; and

Whereas,  the laws and rules governing the periodic inspections of boilers are critical to protecting Maine citizens from the danger of boilers failing and exploding; and

Whereas,  the lack of uniformity in the State's regulation and inspection of boilers within public places should be reviewed to determine how to improve safety standards and the overall process for inspection of boilers throughout the State; and

Whereas,  this resolve requires that a working group be convened in time for a report to be submitted to the Second Regular Session of the 125th Legislature; and

Whereas,  in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create an emergency within the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and require the following legislation as immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now, therefore, be it

Sec. 1. Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation to convene a working group to review the laws and rules governing boilers. Resolved: That the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation shall convene a working group with the Board of Boilers and Pressure Vessels as well as other interested parties to review the current lack of uniformity in the laws and rules governing boilers, to develop recommendations to resolve conflicts and improve the regulation of boilers and to consider options for expanding inspections of boilers located in public places; and be it further

Sec. 2. Reporting date established. Resolved: That no later than January 15, 2012 the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation shall submit a report of the findings and recommendations of the working group under section 1 to the Joint Standing Committee on Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development. That committee is authorized to introduce a bill on the subject matter of the report to the Second Regular Session of the 125th Legislature.

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