An Act To Place the Emergency Services Communication Bureau within the Department of Public Safety
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 0407
Committee: Utilities and Energy
Sponsors: HOBBINS, PARADIS, DAVIS, SNOWE-MELLO, BLANCHETTE, GERZOFSKY
Amends: 25 MRSA §2921, 25 MRSA §2926, 35-A MRSA §103

Legislative Document 
No. 407 
S.P. 131 
In Senate, January 25,2005 
An Act To Place the Emergency Services Communication Bureau 
within the Department of Public Safety 
Submitted by the Department of Public Safety pursuant to Joint Rule 204. 
Reference to the Committee on Utilities and Energy suggested and ordered printed. 
Presented by Senator HOBBINS of York. 
Cosponsored by Representative PARADIS of Frenchville and 
JOY 1. O'BRIEN 
Secretary of the Senate 
Senators: DAVIS of Piscataquis, SNOWE-MELLO of Androscoggin, Representatives: 
BLANCHETTE of Bangor, GERZOFSKY of Brunswick. 
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 25 MRSA §2921. sub-§2-A. as amended by PL 2003, c. 
359, §l, is further amended to read: 
2-A. 
Bureau. 
"Bureau" 
means 
the 
Emergency 
Services 
Communication 
Bureau 
within 
the 
PHslie--Y~ili~ies--~emmissien 
department, which is responsible for the statewide implementation 
and management of E-9-1-l. 
Sec. 2. 25 MRSA §2926. sub-§l. as amended by PL 2003, c. 359, 
§2, is further amended to read: 
1. 
Bureau 
estab1ished. 
The 
Emergency 
Services 
Communication Bureau is established wi thin the PHslie-tJ-t.-iJ-i£ies 
Gemmissien ggpartment to implement and manage E-9-1-1. 
Sec. 3. 35-A MRSA §103, sub-§2, ~D. as enacted by PL 2003, c. 
359, §5, is repealed. 
Sec. 4. Transition. 
1. 
The provisions of this Act that move 
the Emergency 
Services Communication Bureau from within the Public Utilities 
Commission to within the Department of Public Safety are intended 
to change the oversight and management of the bureau but are not 
intended to affect and may not be interpreted as affecting in any 
manner 
the 
purposes, 
powers, 
duties 
or 
functions 
or 
any 
contracts, agreements, obligations or other legal arrangements of 
the bureau, and all existing contracts, agreements, obligations 
or other legal arrangements of the bureau currently in effect 
continue in effect until rescinded, revised or amended. 
2. 
All 
existing 
rules, 
regulations 
and 
procedures 
in 
effect, in operation or adopted in or by the Emergency Services 
Communication Bureau remain in effect until rescinded, revised or 
amended. 
3. 
All positions authorized and allocated to the Emergency 
Services 
Communication 
Bureau 
within 
the 
Public 
Utilities 
Commission are authorized and allocated to the Emergency Services 
Communication Bureau within the Department of Public Safety. 
4. 
All buildings, 
other property belonging 
real 
to 
property, 
equipment, 
or allocated for the 
records 
use of 
or 
the 
Emergency 
Services 
Communication 
Bureau 
wi thin 
the 
Public 
Utili ties Commission are the property of and allocated to the 
Emergency Services Communication Bureau within the Department of 
Public Safety. 
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5. 
All existing forms, letterheads or other supplies of the 
Emergency Services Communication Bureau may continue to be used 
by the bureau. 
SUMMARY 
This bill moves the Emergency Services Communication Bureau 
from 
within 
the 
Public 
Utilities 
Commission 
to 
within 
the 
Department of Public Safety.