Title 30-A, Title 30-A

1. Salaries; time of payment. Except as provided in section 82, the county commissioners in the several counties shall receive annual salaries as set forth in section 2 from the county treasurer in weekly, biweekly, monthly, semiannual or annual payments, as determined by the cou…

1. Municipal offices. A person holding the office of county commissioner may not at the same time hold either the office of mayor or assessor of a city or be a member of a select board or hold the office of assessor of a town. 2. County offices. No county commissioner, during the…

The county commissioners may establish, after a public hearing, a County Personnel Board. The County Personnel Board has the duties and powers set forth in section 501 and this article.

The County Personnel Board shall be composed of 3 or 5 members who may not be county officers or employees. The county commissioners shall appoint the members. The term of office of the members is 3 years, except that for the first appointment approximately 1/3 of the members sha…

1. Duties. The board shall: A. Appoint a director; [PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. C, §106 (NEW); PL 1989, c. 6 (AMD); PL 1989, c. 9, §2 (AMD); PL 1989, c. 104, Pt. C, §§8, 10 (AMD).] B. Approve appointments as authorized under section 501; [PL 1987, c. 73…

At the time of appointment, the director must be a person familiar with the principles, methods and techniques of public personnel administration on the merit basis. The director's tenure of office is at the will of the personnel board and the director shall receive the compensat…

No commissioner may be appointed to expend money assessed or raised for any purpose by the board of which that commissioner is a member.

There is a 30-day transition period for all newly elected county officers from December 1st to January 1st in each year. During this period, each newly elected county officer may, without pay, attend the office to which that county officer has been elected in order to become fami…

There shall be a board of commissioners for each county consisting of a chairman and 2 other persons. Each of the commissioners of a county must represent one of the commissioner districts established by law for the commissioner's county. [PL 2003, c. 43, §1 (AMD).] 1. Residency;…

Notwithstanding section 61, there shall be a Board of Commissioners for York County consisting of a chair and 4 other citizens. All other provisions of section 61 apply to York County.

Vacancies to occur by expiration of the term of office at the end of any year in which a biennial election is held shall be filled by election on the Tuesday following the first Monday of November in that year. [PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. C, §106 (NEW)…

When no choice is effected or a vacancy happens in the office of county commissioner by death, resignation, removal from the county, permanent incapacity or for any other reason, the Governor shall appoint a person to fill the vacancy. That person shall hold office until the firs…

Whenever a county commissioner during the commissioner's term of office in time of war, contemplated war or emergency, enlists, enrolls, is called or ordered or drafted into the military or naval service of the United States, that commissioner is not deemed to have thereby resign…

1. Redistricting, generally. In 2021 and every 10 years thereafter, the apportionment commission established under the Constitution of Maine, Article IV, Part Third, Section 1-A shall review the existing county commissioner districts and, as necessary, reapportion those districts…

1. Creation of Androscoggin County Commissioner Districts. Androscoggin County is divided into the following 7 districts. A. Commissioner District Number 1 consists of the following census units in the minor civil division of Lewiston: Census Tract 201; Block 2010, Block 2011, Bl…

Any agent or officer who willfully violates section 701, 921, 922, 923, 924 or 951 is guilty of a Class E crime.

A majority of the commissioners constitutes a quorum. When fewer attend, they may adjourn to a convenient time and place. When no commissioner attends, the clerk may adjourn the meeting.

Any county officer who fails to follow the requirements of this chapter or chapter 3 commits a civil violation for which a forfeiture of not more than $200 may be adjudged.

1. Appointment of clerk; term; clerk pro tempore. The county commissioners in each county may appoint a suitable person to serve as clerk to the county commissioners. If the county has a county administrator, the commissioners may not appoint a clerk. The clerk of the county comm…

The county commissioners of each county may appropriate funds for the hiring of a county administrator. If the county commissioners do not hire a full-time county administrator, then no county employee, other than county commissioners, may perform any of the administrative functi…