An Act To Establish a Private Support Organization for the Maine Commission for Community Service
Maine Legislature, Session 127, LD 0916
Committee: State and Local Government
Sponsors: McLEAN, KATZ, POULIOT, TURNER, SAVIELLO
Amends: 5 MRSA §7505

Legislative Document 
No. 916 
H.P. 636 
House of Representatives, March 12, 2015 
An Act To Establish a Private Support Organization for the Maine 
Commission for Community Service 
Submitted by the Maine Commission for Community Service pursuant to Joint Rule 204. 
Reference to the Committee on State and Local Government suggested and ordered printed. 
ROBERT B. HUNT 
Clerk 
Presented by Representative McLEAN of Gorham. 
Cosponsored by Senator KATZ of Kennebec and 
Representatives: POULIOT of Augusta, TURNER of Burlington, Senator: SAVIELLO of 
Franklin. 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1.  5 MRSA §7505 is enacted to read: 
§7505.  Private support organization 
1.  Designation of private support organization.  The executive director of the 
commission, with the consent of the voting members of the commission, shall designate a 
nonprofit corporation as the private support organization for the commission.  The 
nonprofit corporation must be incorporated under the laws of this State and for purposes 
that are consistent with the goals, objectives, programs, responsibilities and functions of 
the commission. 
The commission's private support organization must be organized and operated 
exclusively to receive, hold, invest and administer property and funds and to make 
expenditures to and for the benefit of the commission. 
2.  Board of directors.  A member of the private support organization's board of 
directors may not also be a member of the commission.  The executive director of the 
commission, or the executive director's designee, shall serve as a nonvoting ex-officio 
member of the private support organization's board of directors. 
3.  Scope of work.  The private support organization shall operate under a 
memorandum of understanding negotiated annually by the commission that outlines a 
plan of work consistent with the purposes and goals of the commission and shall submit 
an annual budget for review and approval by the commission by June 1st.  
The memorandum of understanding must further stipulate the reversion to the 
commission, or to the State if the commission ceases to exist, of money and property held 
in trust by the private support organization if the private support organization is no longer 
designated by the commission pursuant to subsection 1. 
4.  Use of property.  The commission may authorize the private support organization 
to use the commission's facilities, equipment and other property, except money, in 
keeping with the purposes of the private support organization. 
SUMMARY 
This bill directs the Maine Commission for Community Service to designate a 
nonprofit corporation as the private support organization for the commission to support 
the commission's work.  The private support organization would be formed exclusively to 
receive, hold, invest and administer property and funds and to make expenditures to and 
for the benefit of the commission.