Sec. QQ-1. 12 MRSA §5012, first ¶, as amended by PL 1983, c. 819, Pt. A, §15, is further amended to read:
The commissioner is the chief executive officer of the Department of Conservation. He The commissioner shall coordinate and supervise the activities and programs of the bureaus and agencies which that are part of the department; undertake comprehensive planning and analysis with respect to the functions and responsibilities of the department; and develop and implement, whenever necessary, procedures and practices to promote economy, efficiency and coordination in and between the various agencies and bureaus of the department. He The commissioner shall reorganize or combine the bureaus of the department or the planning, operations and other functions among the bureaus of the department as he deems the commissioner considers necessary to improve the efficiency of department services. From time to time he the commissioner shall recommend to the Governor and Legislature such changes in the laws relating to the organization, functions, services or procedures of the agencies and bureaus of the department as he shall deem the commissioner considers desirable. The commissioner shall prepare a budget for the department; and shall organize and maintain within the department an administrative a general services division to which he the commissioner may assign personnel from the agencies and bureaus of the department.
Sec. QQ-2. 12 MRSA §5012, 2nd and 3rd ¶¶, as amended by PL 1987, c. 308, §6, are further amended to read:
The commissioner shall have has the power to appoint a director of administrative general services, a deputy commissioner and bureau heads and other staff of the department, subject to the Civil Service Law, and prescribe their duties as necessary for the proper performance of the duties of the department.
The director of administrative general services, the deputy commissioner and bureau heads shall serve at the pleasure of the commissioner, except that dismissal of the Executive Director of the Maine Land Use Regulation Commission shall require requires the consent of a majority of the members of that commission.
Sec. QQ-3. 12 MRSA §5013, last ¶, as amended by PL 1985, c. 785, Pt. B, §64, is further amended to read:
Every person appointed as a bureau director, a director of administrative general services or of planning and program services, or in another supervisory capacity in the department shall must have experience and skill in the field of the functions of such position. So far as is practicable in the judgment of the commissioner, appointments to such positions shall must be made by promoting employees of the State serving in positions which that are classified and in every instance when a person is promoted from a classified position upon termination of his that person's service in such classified supervisory position, the employee shall, if he shall the employee so request requests, must be restored to the classified position from which he shall have been the employee was promoted or to a position equivalent thereto in salary grade in the same state agency, without impairment of his the employee's personnel status or the loss of seniority, retirement or other rights to which uninterrupted service in the classified position would have entitled him the employee, provided that if his the employee's service in such unclassified supervisory position shall have has been terminated for cause, his the employee's right to be so restored shall must be determined by the State Civil Service Appeals Board.
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