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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘An Act To Improve the Department of Corrections' Response to Emergency Situations by Amending Provisions Related to Vehicles Operated by Certain Department Employees’
Amend the bill in section 1 in paragraph B by striking out all of subparagraph (6) (page 1, lines 13 to 17 in L.D.) and inserting the following:
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(6) A Department of Corrections vehicle used for responding to the escape of or performing the high-security transfer of a prisoner, juvenile client or juvenile detainee or a Department of Corrections vehicle operated by a person who is certified by the Board of Trustees of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy as a law enforcement officer;
Amend the bill by adding after section 1 the following:
‘Sec. 2. 29-A MRSA §2054, sub-§5, ¶C, as amended by PL 2001, c. 360, §7, is further amended to read:
 
C. Exceed the maximum speed limits as long as life or property is not endangered, except that a capital security officersofficer and employees of thea person operating a Department of Corrections vehicle who is not certified as a law enforcement officer by the Board of Trustees of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy may not exercise this privilege;’
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section number to read consecutively.
 
SUMMARY
This amendment expands the definition of an authorized emergency vehicle to include a Department of Corrections vehicle operated by a person certified by the Board of Trustees of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy as a law enforcement officer and allows a person certified by the Board of Trustees of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy as a law enforcement officer who is operating a Department of Corrections vehicle to exceed the maximum speed limits as long as life or property is not endangered.