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PART OO<br />

SUMMARY<br />

This Part consolidates the Dairy Industry Fund, Other Special Revenue Funds account<br />

into the Maine Milk Commission, Other Special Revenue Funds account within the same Milk<br />

Commission program to gain administrative efficiencies.<br />

PART PP<br />

Sec. PP-1. 7 MRSA §3906-B, sub-§16, as amended in PL 2009, c. 548, §1, is further<br />

amended to read:<br />

16. Animal welfare auxiliary fund. The commissioner may accept gifts, donations,<br />

bequests, endowments, grants and matching funds from any private or public source for the<br />

purposes of ensuring the humane and proper treatment of animals and enhancing the<br />

administration and enforcement of this Part and Title 17, chapter 42. The commissioner shall<br />

deposit all funds accepted for these purposes and all proceeds from sales authorized under<br />

subsection 17 into a separate, nonlapsing account known as the animal welfare auxiliary fund<br />

operating as a unit within the Animal Welfare Fund program. All gifts, donations, bequests,<br />

endowments, grants, proceeds and matching funds received must be used for the benefit of and<br />

accomplishment of the objectives in this Part and Title 17, chapter 42 and any gift, donation,<br />

bequest, endowment, grant or matching funds accepted with a stipulated purpose may be used<br />

only for that purpose.<br />

All money deposited in the animal welfare auxiliary fund in accordance with section 1820-<br />

A, subsection 4 must be used for investigating alleged cases of mistreatment or abuse of equines<br />

and enhancing enforcement of this Part and Title 17, chapter 42 as these laws pertain to equines.<br />

PART PP<br />

SUMMARY<br />

This Part consolidates the Animal Welfare Auxiliary Fund, Other Special Revenue Funds<br />

account into the Animal Welfare Fund, Other Special Revenue Funds account within the same<br />

Animal Welfare Fund program to recognize administrative efficiencies.<br />

PART QQ<br />

Sec. QQ-1. 12 MRSA §541-A, as amended by PL 2013, c. 405, Pt. C, §3, is further<br />

amended to read:<br />

The Division of Geology, Natural Areas and Coastal Resources is established within the<br />

Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry and is administered by the commissioner.<br />

The division consists of the Maine Geological Survey, referred to in this chapter as the “survey,”<br />

and the Natural Areas Program and the Maine Coastal Program. The director of the bureau is the<br />

director of the survey.<br />

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