Emergency plan rules in Maine
One license type researched, regulated by Maine DHHS — Division of Licensing and Certification. Every requirement below carries the rule that imposes it.
Assisted living / residential care
Licensed in Maine as Assisted Housing Program (assisted living, residential care, or private non-medical institution), by Maine DHHS — Division of Licensing and Certification.
10-144 C.M.R. ch. 113 (assisted housing programs); safety standards at §144-113-I-13; fire safety inspection under 22 M.R.S. §7855
Drills or rehearsals of the emergency steps at IRREGULAR TIMES OF DAY, at least six a year and SPACED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, with two of the six conducted while residents are asleep.
- Maine licenses assisted living, residential care and private non-medical institutions under one chapter with different levels. Confirm which level you hold — the standards differ by level within the same rule.
- The 'irregular times' and 'spaced throughout the year' wording is a real constraint: six drills clustered in one month satisfies the count and fails the rule.
Reviewed 2026-07-30
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Everything else we’ve researched about Maine
Same state, the problems either side of this one. Each carries its own statute and the date we last checked it.
What this page is
The requirements Maine places on a facility emergency preparedness plan, taken from the state’s own rules rather than a national template. Where we have confirmed something against primary text it is stated plainly; where we have not, it says so and names what to check. Nothing here is inferred from what other states do.
The part that is the same everywhere
The federal layer does not vary by state, and it is narrower than it is usually described. OSHA 29 CFR §1910.38 does not bind every employer on its own — by its applicability paragraph it governs an emergency action plan whenever another OSHA standard requires the employer to have one, and it then settles what that plan must contain. The CMS emergency preparedness rule applies by certified provider type rather than by building. That layer, plus the exit-route, alarm and first-aid rules and the fire code’s plan structure, is covered in the main crash course rather than repeated on all fifty state pages.
Write the plan
The Emergency Plan Builder produces the document itself and is driven by this same research, so the two cannot disagree about what Maine requires. The Compliance Calendar puts the drills and inspections on dates.