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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘An Act To Allow Counties To Better Provide Rescue Services’
Amend the bill by striking out all of section 1 and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA §456, as enacted by PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. A, §2 and Pt. C, §106 and amended by PL 1989, c. 6; c. 9, §2; and c. 104, Pt. C, §§8 and 10, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:
§ 456. Rescue services
 
1.  Scope of service.     Each county may provide rescue services:
 
A.  To the entire county, omitting only those municipalities that request not to be included; or
 
B.  By municipal-county contracts under section 107 or chapter 115 to those municipalities that enter into contracts as long as county tax revenues are not used to support the rescue services.
Sec. 2. 30-A MRSA §457, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. A, §2 and Pt. C, §106 and amended by PL 1989, c. 6; c. 9, §2; and c. 104, Pt. C, §§8 and 10, is further amended to read:
 
1. Scope of service.   Each county may provide ambulance service:
 
A. To the entire county, omitting only those municipalities whothat request not to be included; or
 
B. By municipal-county contracts under section 107 or chapter 115, to those municipalities whothat enter into contracts, provided thatas long as county tax revenues are not used to support the ambulance services.’
 
SUMMARY
This amendment replaces the substance of the bill, which applies only to York County. It changes the title and removes language in current law that provides that a county may provide rescue services through the sheriff's department and deputies and instead provides that each county may provide rescue services to the entire county, omitting municipalities that ask to be excluded, or by municipal-county contracts to municipalities that enter into contracts as long as county tax revenues are not used to support the services. It also makes minor nonsubstantive technical changes to reflect current usage.