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Getting To The Shore On Foot: Sustaining Harvester Access, Bill Zoellick, Pauline V. Angione, Emily Farr, Ada Fisher, Jessica Gribbon Joyce, B Lauer, Marissa Mcmahan Ph.D., Michael Pinkham, Vicki Rea
Getting To The Shore On Foot: Sustaining Harvester Access, Bill Zoellick, Pauline V. Angione, Emily Farr, Ada Fisher, Jessica Gribbon Joyce, B Lauer, Marissa Mcmahan Ph.D., Michael Pinkham, Vicki Rea
Maine Policy Review
"Working Waterfront" conjures images of the Portland Fish Exchange, Belfast shipyards, or wharves and piers in Stonington. Ensuring that such sites continue as essential elements of Maine's marine economy is increasingly the focus of innovative action and policy development. But policies to address Maine's working waterfronts must also attend to waterfront access required by those who reach it on foot. Such access rights are rarely conferred by private ownership. Instead, they depend on public ownership and, more frequently, on informal social arrangements between harvesters and property owners. In this article, we describe the nature of the shore access needed by …
Legislative Amendment Of Citizen Initiatives: Where The “Will Of The Voter” Meets The “Consent Of The Elector”, Derek P. Langhauser
Legislative Amendment Of Citizen Initiatives: Where The “Will Of The Voter” Meets The “Consent Of The Elector”, Derek P. Langhauser
Maine Policy Review
This article discusses the issues involved in legislative amendment of citizen initiatives in Maine by explaining the legislature’s authority to amend or repeal citizen initiatives, how and why the Maine Constitution specifically provides for that authority, and how and why that approach is conceptually consistent with numerous other provisions and principles of our Constitution. This article further suggests the types of issues that, regardless of the subject matter in question, the legislature should consider in determining whether, and if so how and when, to change a directly democratic act of the people. Such considerations when earnestly applied can serve to …
Maine State Law And Legislative Reference Library, John Barden
Maine State Law And Legislative Reference Library, John Barden
Maine Policy Review
The Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library provides reference assistance to legislators, the judiciary, state agencies, members of the bar, and citizens across the state of Maine and beyond from its rich and unique collection of legal and legislative materials.