In order to understand the reason we have the leadership crises at hand during COVID, read these sections of title 37-B

37-B, chap 13.

• sec. 703 Definitions:  Sub Sec 2 Disaster & sec 6 recovery. 2.  Disaster.  “Disaster” means the occurrence or imminent threat of widespread or severe damage, injury or loss of life or property resulting from any natural or man-made cause, including, but not limited to, fire, flood, earthquake, wind, storm, wave action, oil spill or other water contamination requiring emergency action to avert danger or damage, epidemic, extreme public health emergency pursuant to Title 22, section 802, subsection 2-A, air contamination, blight, drought, critical material shortage, infestation, explosion, riot or hostile military or paramilitary action.  
  Sec 6.  Recovery.  “Recovery” means activities that, in the short term, return vital life support systems to minimum operating standards and, in the long term, redevelop a disaster area to preexisting conditions or to conditions that are less disaster prone and activities that assist families and businesses to return to a normal or improved state of being.  
• sec. 705 Appeals: The director shall adopt reasonable rules to carry out this chapter in accordance with the Maine Administrative Procedure Act, Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter II. Those rules shall not become effective until approved in writing by the Governor.   [PL 1983, c. 460, §3 (NEW).]Any person aggrieved by rule or an act or order of the director enforcing a rule may appeal by filing a complaint in the Superior Court within 30 days. The court may affirm or reverse the rule, act or order of the director and the decision of the court shall be final. 

• sec 741 Governors powers: http://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/37-B/title37-Bsec741.html
• sec 742 Emergency Proclamation: http://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/37-B/title37-Bsec742.html
• sec 743 termination o Emergency: http://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/37-B/title37-Bsec743.html

Maine Constitution: https://www.maine.gov/legis/const/