Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 873 – Advisory committee
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There is established a Franklin County Budget Advisory Committee comprised as follows. [PL 1991, c. 495 (NEW).]
1. (TEXT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 11/5/24) Municipal officers. Municipal officers within each commissioner district shall caucus and shall elect municipal officers from that district to fill vacancies as they arise, for terms as provided in paragraph A.
A. Members shall serve for 3-year terms, except that initially each district caucus shall select one member for a one-year term, one member for a 2-year term and one member for a 3-year term. There must be 3 members from each commissioner district. If a committee member ceases to be a municipal officer during the term of membership, the committee member shall resign the membership and the next district caucus shall elect a qualified municipal officer to fill the membership for the remainder of the unexpired term. [PL 1991, c. 495 (NEW).]
[PL 1991, c. 495 (NEW).]
Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 873
- 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.
- County legislative delegation: means all state legislators whose legislative districts, in whole or in part, lie within the boundaries of a county. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 1
- 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
- Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
- Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
1. (TEXT EFFECTIVE 11/5/24) Municipal officers. By April 1st of each year, municipal officers within each commissioner district shall caucus and shall elect municipal officers from that district to fill vacancies for terms as provided in paragraph B.
A. [PL 2023, c. 262, §1 (RP); PL 2023, c. 262, §5 (AFF).]
B. Each commissioner district has 2 permanent members. Members serve for 3-year terms. There is a rotating member who serves a one-year term, selected in 2025 by commissioner district one, selected in 2026 by commissioner district 2, selected in 2027 by commissioner district 3, selected in 2028 by commissioner district 4, selected in 2029 by commissioner district 5 and selected in 2030 and succeeding years in the same order as the first 5 years under this paragraph. If a committee member ceases to be a municipal officer during the term of membership, the committee member shall resign the membership and the next district caucus shall elect a qualified municipal officer to fill the membership for the remainder of the unexpired term. [PL 2023, c. 262, §1 (NEW); PL 2023, c. 262, §5 (AFF).]
[PL 2023, c. 262, §1 (AMD); PL 2023, c. 262, §5 (AFF).]
2. Legislative member. The Franklin County legislative delegation shall select one of the delegation’s members to serve as a nonvoting member on the committee.
[PL 1991, c. 495 (NEW).]
3. Committee chair. The committee shall select its own chair each year.
[PL 1991, c. 495 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
RR 1991, c. 1, §39 (COR). PL 1991, c. 204, §2 (NEW). PL 1991, c. 495 (NEW). PL 2023, c. 262, §1 (AMD). PL 2023, c. 262, §5 (AFF).