Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 892 – Advisory committee
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This section establishes the Oxford County Budget Advisory Committee. [PL 1991, c. 204, §2 (NEW).]
1. Appointment. Each county commissioner shall appoint a municipal officer from the commissioner’s respective county commissioner district at least 100 days before the end of the county’s fiscal year.
[PL 2007, c. 663, §18 (AMD).]
Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 892
- Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Municipal officers: means the mayor and municipal officers or councilors of a city, the members of the select board or councilors of a town and the assessors of a plantation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- Municipality: includes cities, towns and plantations, except that "municipality" does not include plantations in Title 10, chapter 110, subchapter IV; or Title 30?A, Part 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
2. Municipal officer elections. No later than 100 days before the end of the county’s fiscal year, the county commissioners shall notify all municipal officers to caucus by county commissioner district at a specified date, time and place for the purpose of electing 2 municipal officers from each district as members of the county budget advisory committee. The county commissioner shall serve as nonvoting moderator for that district caucus. Nominations must be received from the floor. The 2 nominees receiving the most votes are the budget advisory committee members. The names of those elected by the caucus must be recorded and forwarded to the county commissioners. When the district meeting fails to produce 2 budget committee member nominees, the county commissioner of the district may appoint a municipal officer from that district to each vacant seat within 10 days of the district caucus. The county commissioner shall include notice of this appointment provision in the original notice to convene the caucus if the commissioner plans to exercise the appointment authority granted in this subsection. A municipality may not at any time have more than one representative serving on the budget advisory committee.
[PL 2007, c. 663, §19 (AMD).]
3. Vacancy; replacement. If a budget advisory committee member ceases to be a municipal officer during the term of membership, the committee member vacates membership and a replacement must be appointed by the county commissioner from the district in which the vacancy occurred.
[PL 1991, c. 204, §2 (NEW).]
4. Municipal officer; definition. The term “municipal officer,” as it refers to the Oxford County Budget Advisory Committee in this section, means a member of the select board or council member.
[PL 2021, c. 275, §19 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
RR 1991, c. 1, §39 (RNU). PL 1991, c. 204, §2 (NEW). PL 1999, c. 31, §1 (AMD). PL 2007, c. 663, §§18, 19 (AMD). PL 2021, c. 275, §19 (AMD).