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CONCISE SUMMARY: Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention is adopting this rule to coincide with the expiration of the rule adopted on an emergency basis (effective January 31, 2025), ensuring the additional $5.00 for burial-transit permits issued in Maine remains in rule as required by Public Law 2023, Chapter 677, § 4. This routine technical rule adopts changes that reflect the collection of an additional $5.00 above the current fee charged for the permit required for the transportation, temporary storage, disinterment, or final disposition of a dead human body, which is in accordance with 13 MRS § 1374. This fee collection must be deposited into the Cemetery Preservation Fund and used to support the Maine State Preservation Commission. Additional rule changes include technical amendments to conform to agency format standards. This rulemaking is concurrent with related Chapter 1 rulemaking that also proposes this vital records fee change.
EFFECTIVE DATE: April 30, 2025
AGENCY CONTACT PERSON: Andrew Hardy
ADDRESS: 11 SHS - 286 Water Street Augusta, ME 04333-0011
TELEPHONE: (207) 287-4490
E-MAIL ADDRESS: andrew.hardy@maine.gov
AGENCY WEBSITE: http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mecdc/rules/ https://www.maine.gov/dhhs/about/rulemaking
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Office: Maine CDC
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