United States — Maine Act or statute

United States — Maine legislation

Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A, § 3496: Administration and enforcement; rulemaking, 2021

The Department of Environmental Protection and the Maine Land Use Planning Commission must administer and enforce this chapter for decommissioning of certain solar energy developments under their permitting role.

Source excerpt

feesrulemakingsolar energy development decommissioning

Jurisdiction: United States — Maine
Structure: 1 provisions
Official identity: Year 2021
Dates: Enacted 2021 · Source version 1 Oct 2025

More statute details

Dates: Enacted 2021 · Source version 1 Oct 2025

On this page

Professional statute overview

Enactment structure, operative effect and source provenance

Official source

Purpose and legislative effect

“The Department of Environmental Protection and the Maine Land Use Planning Commission must administer and enforce this chapter for decommissioning of certain solar energy developments under their permitting role.”

Use this record to locate individual provisions, understand the instrument’s recorded structure, and move from a research summary to the exact source text.

How the instrument operates

01
Start with the recorded version

Enacted 2021 · Source version 1 Oct 2025. The date shown identifies this source expression and should not be treated as proof that no later change exists.
02
Locate the controlling provision

Use the provision map, part headings and full-text filter to move from the broad subject to the exact legal language.
03
Read conditions and exceptions together

Keep subsections, definitions, provisos and cross-references in context before drawing a legal conclusion.
04
Verify currency and official wording

Confirm later legislation, commencement notices and corrections with the official publisher before advice, filing or reliance.

Research entry points

Selected provisions across the instrument. Open any row to continue with the exact stored text.

Administration and enforcement; rulemaking

Section 3496

Source and current-law status

Source record view

Source record from legislature.maine.gov · Enacted 2021 · Source version 1 Oct 2025

Verify current force

The source record does not state a definitive current-law status. Check the official publisher and later amendments before relying on this text.

For advice, pleadings, or compliance decisions, retain the official source and confirm the current consolidated provision.

Official record

Source-indexed provision map

Sections and provisions

Search by section, heading, part or exact legal wording. Every result remains linked to the stored source record.

Search within this statute

Search all stored provisions in this version.

Showing 1 of 1 provisions

Provision

§ 3496Administration and enforcement; rulemakingProvision

Source excerpt

The Department of Environmental Protection shall administer and enforce this chapter with respect to the decommissioning of solar energy developments for which it is the environmental permitting entity, subject to the same powers and authorities granted to it pursuant to Title 38, chapter 2, which may include, but are not limited to, the adoption of rules and the establishment of reasonable fees. The Maine Land Use Planning Commission shall administer and enforce this chapter with respect to the decommissioning of solar energy developments for which it is the environmental permitting entity, subject to the same powers and authorities granted to it pursuant to Title 12, chapter 206‑A, which may include, but are not limited to, the adoption of rules and the establishment of reasonable fees. [PL 2023, c. 215, §1 (AMD).] Rules adopted by the Department of Environmental Protection or by the Maine Land Use Planning Commission pursuant to this section are routine technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2‑A. [PL 2021, c. 151, §1 (NEW); PL 2021, c. 151, §2 (AFF).]

Section 3496Verify source

Legislative relationships

0 referenced instruments

Names are derived from the stored provision headings and citation-enrichment layer. Treat this as a research index and verify each relationship against the source text.

No structured legislative relationships were detected

The statute remains fully searchable by provision. Consult the source text for amendments and cross-references that have not yet been indexed.

Recorded versions and source checkpoint

1 version available in this collection

Current-law checkpoint

1 Oct 2025 · currentEnglish

This relationship view does not by itself establish whether another instrument remains in force.

Check official source

Source-linked research

Ask AI about this statute

The overview, provisions, and source records above are public. Continue in a separate conversation with this statute’s jurisdiction and source version attached.