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An Act Regarding the Maine Length of Service Award Program Board of Trustees
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 5 MRSA §3372, sub-§3, ¶C, as enacted by PL 2015, c. 352, §1, is amended to read:
 
C. The terms of the trustees are determined as follows.
 
(1) Each trustee serves a term of 3 years.
 
(2) A trustee continues to serve after the expiration of that trustee's term until a successor is appointed and qualified, but the trustee's continuation as a trustee does not change the expiration date of the trustee's term.
 
(3) The term of a trustee appointed to succeed a trustee whose term has expired begins on the day after the expiration date of the 3-year term of the previous trustee, regardless of the effective date of the new appointment.
 
(4) An appointment to any vacancy caused by death, resignation or ineligibility is for the unexpired portion of the term. An appointment made by the Governor to a vacancy must be made within 60 days after the vacancy occurs. If the Governor does not make the appointment to fill the vacancy within 60 days, the chair of the Maine Fire Protection Services Commission shall make the appointment.
Sec. 2. Appointments to Maine Length of Service Award Program Board of Trustees. Notwithstanding the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, section 3372, subsection 3, paragraph A, if the appointments to the Maine Length of Service Award Program Board of Trustees under Title 5, section 3372, subsection 3, paragraph A, subparagraphs (1) to (3) have not been made within 30 days of the effective date of this Act, the chair of the Maine Fire Protection Services Commission shall make the appointments in the same manner.
 
SUMMARY
This bill amends the laws governing the Maine Length of Service Award Program Board of Trustees to require the chair of the Maine Fire Protection Services Commission to appoint initial members to the board of trustees if those appointments have not been made within 30 days of the effective date of this legislation. The bill also requires the chair of the Maine Fire Protection Services Commission to make an appointment to fill a vacancy on the board of trustees if the appointment is not made within 60 days of the vacancy.