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Proclamation of State of Civil Emergency to Further Protect Public Health (Maine, Governor Janet T. Mills)

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Proclamation by Governor Janet T. Mills declaring a state of civil emergency in Maine over COVID-19, which it calls a highly infectious agent that poses an imminent threat of substantial harm. Acting under Me. Const. Art. V, Pt. 1, the Governor finds that these conditions constitute a state of emergency under provisions of 37-B M.R.S. and 22 M.R.S. The proclamation activates all authority under emergency management, public health and other laws to issue oral and written directives that the Governor, on the advice of public health and other expert officials, reasonably deems necessary, and authorizes the Maine Department of Health and Human Services to exercise emergency powers. It expires thirty (30) days from signature unless renewed or terminated, and was given at Augusta on the fifteenth day of March Two Thousand Twenty.

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State of Maine

Proclamation of State of Civil Emergency to Further Protect Public Health

WHEREAS, COVID-19 is a highly infectious agent that poses an imminent threat of substantial
harm to our citizens;

WHEREAS, to date the State has taken numerous actions to respond and protect against this
threat; and

WHEREAS, this Proclamation is necessary to authorize the use of emergency powers in order to
expand and expedite that response;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Janet T. Mills, Governor of the State of Maine, pursuant to Me. Const.
Art. V, Pt. 1, $$ 1 and 12, do hereby find and declare by this Proclamation that these conditions
constitute a state of emergency within the meaning of 37-B M.R.S. $703(2), $742(1)(A) and 37-B
MRS. Ch. 13, subch. I and 22 M.R.S. $801(4-A) and $802(2-A). This Proclamation activates any
and all authority delegated to me by any and all emergency management, public health and other
pertinent laws to issue any and all oral and written directives that I, upon the advice of public
health and other expert officials, reasonably deem necessary to respond to and protect against the
spread and impacts of COVID-19 in Maine. This Proclamation also authorizes the Maine
Department of Health and Human Services to exercise emergency powers pursuant to 22 M.R.S.
$820. Officials and other persons lawfully subject to any and all directives pursuant to this
Proclamation shall faithfully and timely execute the same. This Proclamation shall, pursuant to
37-B M.R.S. $743, expire thirty (30) days from the date of its signature unless earlier renewed or
terminated by me, or terminated by legislative joint resolution.

In testimony whereof, I have caused the Great
Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed
GIVEN under my hand at Augusta this
fifteenth day of March Two Thousand

Twenty
Janet T. Mills

Governor

Secretary of State
TRUE ATTESTED COPY

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