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Maine Revised Statutes Title 10. Commerce and Trade § 8001. Department; organization

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

There is created and established the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, in this chapter referred to as the “department,” to regulate financial institutions, insurance companies, grantors of consumer credit and to license and regulate professions and occupations. The mission of the department is to encourage sound, ethical business practices through high-quality, impartial and efficient regulation of insurers, financial institutions, creditors, investment providers and numerous professions and occupations for the purpose of protecting consumers. The department is composed of the following:

1. Bureau of Financial Institutions. Bureau of Financial Institutions;

2. Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection. Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection;

3. Bureau of Insurance. Bureau of Insurance;

3-A. Office of Securities. Office of Securities; and

4 to 9. Repealed. Laws 1995, c. 397, § 5.

10. Repealed. Laws 1995, c. 397, § 5; Laws 1995, c. 505, § 4, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.

11 to 22. Repealed. Laws 1995, c. 397, § 5.

22-A. Repealed. Laws 1995, c. 397, § 6.

23 to 32. Repealed. Laws 1995, c. 397, § 7.

32-A. Repealed. Laws 1995, c. 397, § 8.

33. Repealed. Laws 1995, c. 397, § 9.

34. Repealed. Laws 1993, c. 428, § 2.

35, 36. Repealed. Laws 1995, c. 397, § 10; Laws 1995, c. 625, § A-17, eff. April 8, 1996.

37. Repealed. Laws 1995, c. 502, § H-7, eff. Nov. 30, 1995.

38. Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation. Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation. The Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation is composed of the following:

A. Board of Accountancy;

B. Repealed.Laws 1995, c. 671, § 6.

C. Repealed.Laws 1999, c. 386, § B-1.

D. Maine State Board for Licensure of Architects, Landscape Architects and Interior Designers;

E. Deleted.Laws 2011, c. 286, § B-1.

F. Board of Licensing of Auctioneers;

G. Deleted.Laws 2009, c. 369, § A-22.

H. Board of Chiropractic Licensure;

H-1. Board of Complementary Health Care Providers;

I. Deleted.Laws 2011, c. 286, § B-1.

J. Board of Counseling Professionals Licensure;

K. Board of Licensing of Dietetic Practice;

L. Electricians' Examining Board;

M. Board of Licensure of Foresters;

N. State Board of Funeral Service;

O. State Board of Licensure for Geologists and Soil Scientists;

P. Repealed. Laws 2007, c. 369, § B-2, eff. Dec. 1, 2007.

Q. Board of Licensure for Professional Land Surveyors;

R. Manufactured Housing Board;

S. Nursing Home Administrators Licensing Board;

T. Board of Occupational Therapy Practice;

U. Repealed. Laws 2009, c. 344, § B-1, eff. Jan. 1, 2010.

V. Maine Board of Pharmacy;

W. Board of Examiners in Physical Therapy;

X. Repealed. Laws 1997, c. 727, § C-1.

Y. Plumbers' Examining Board;

Z. Board of Licensure of Podiatric Medicine;

AA. State Board of Examiners of Psychologists;

BB. Radiologic Technology Board of Examiners;

CC. Board of Real Estate Appraisers;

DD. Board of Respiratory Care Practitioners;

EE. State Board of Social Worker Licensure;

FF. Repealed.Laws 2007, c. 369, § B-3, eff. Dec. 1, 2007.

GG. State Board of Alcohol and Drug Counselors;

HH. State Board of Veterinary Medicine;

II. Repealed. Laws 2009, c. 344, § B-2, eff. Jan. 1, 2010.

JJ. Real Estate Commission;

KK. Deleted. Laws 2013, c. 70, § B-1, eff. Oct. 9, 2013.

LL. Deleted. Laws 2013, c. 70, § B-1, eff. Oct. 9, 2013.

MM. Board of Speech, Audiology and Hearing;

NN. Maine Fuel Board; and

OO. Board of Dental Practice.

The Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation also administers the following regulatory functions: licensure of athletic trainers; licensure of massage therapists; licensure of interpreters for the deaf and hard-of-hearing; licensure of persons pursuant to the Charitable Solicitations Act; licensure of transient sellers, including door-to-door home repair transient sellers; licensure of persons pursuant to the Barbering and Cosmetology Licensure Act;  1 licensure of persons pursuant to the laws governing boiler and pressure vessel safety and elevator and tramway safety; and inspection and certification requirements for boilers, pressure vessels, elevators and tramways pursuant to the laws governing boiler and pressure vessel safety and elevator and tramway safety.

1 9 M.R.S.A. § 5001 et seq.
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