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§283
Title 7: AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Part 1: ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 8-F: MAINE FOOD SOVEREIGNTY ACT
§285

§284. Authority

Pursuant to the home rule authority granted to municipalities by Title 30‑A, section 3001 and by the Constitution of Maine, Article VIII, Part Second, pursuant to the authority granted to plantations by Title 30‑A, section 7051, and notwithstanding any provision of law regulating food in this Title or Title 22 to the contrary, except as contained in section 285, a municipality or plantation may adopt ordinances regarding direct producer-to-consumer transactions and the State shall recognize such ordinances by not enforcing those laws or implementing rules with respect to those direct producer-to-consumer transactions that are governed by the ordinance.   [PL 2021, c. 625, §3 (AMD).]
Pursuant to the authority granted to county commissioners by Title 30‑A, section 7505 and notwithstanding any provision of law regulating food in this Title or Title 22 to the contrary, except as contained in section 285, a county may adopt ordinances regarding direct producer-to-consumer transactions within one or more unorganized territories within that county and the State shall recognize such an ordinance by not enforcing those laws or implementing rules with respect to those direct producer-to-consumer transactions that are governed by the ordinance.   [PL 2021, c. 625, §3 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 2017, c. 314, §1 (NEW). PL 2021, c. 625, §3 (AMD).
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