VILLAGE SOUP • March 11, 2023
Rep. William “Billy Bob” Faulkingham (R-Winter Harbor) is co-sponsoring legislation that would give Maine sovereign rights over up to 12 miles off its coastline. This follows maritime law, which allows a coastal state to claim and exercise sovereignty over a territorial sea that extends seaward up to 12 nautical miles, the airspace above it and the seabed and subsoil beneath it. Sovereignty includes the power to make laws and exercise power without interference.