§ 1450a — Rulemaking

The Secretary may adopt rules necessary for the purposes of implementing, administering, or enforcing the requirements of this chapter, including best management practices for the construction of impervious surfaces or the creation of cleared area in a protected shoreland area, including standards for:
(1) managing vegetative cover that may be required as a best management practice in order to ensure that some level of the required vegetative cover is maintained in the protected shoreland area;
(2) allowing reasonable use of the protected shoreland area subject to a vegetative cover requirement for construction, creation, or expansion of an impervious surface or cleared area;
(3) minimizing and mitigating the creation of an impervious surface or cleared area in a protected shoreland area. (Added 2013, No. 172 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)