Maine Revised Statutes > Title 26 > Chapter 19 > Subchapter 2 > Article 8 – Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing and Late-Deafened Persons
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| § 1420-B | Motor vehicle drivers |
| § 1420-C | Penalty |
Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 26 > Chapter 19 > Subchapter 2 > Article 8 - Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing and Late-Deafened Persons
- Adult: means a person 18 years of age or over. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003
- Advanced emergency medical person: means an emergency medical services person licensed to perform advanced emergency medical treatment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83
- Advanced emergency medical treatment: means those portions of emergency medical treatment:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83Ambulance: means any vehicle, whether an air, ground or water vehicle, that is designed, constructed or routinely used or intended to be used for the transportation of ill or injured persons. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Ambulance equipment: means those materials and devices which are carried in ambulances. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Ambulance service: means any person, persons or organization that holds itself out to be a provider of transportation of ill or injured persons or that routinely provides transportation for ill or injured persons. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it. Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant. Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority. Basic emergency medical services person: means a person licensed to perform basic emergency medical treatment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Basic emergency medical treatment: means those portions of emergency medical treatment:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83Board: means the Emergency Medical Services' Board established pursuant to section 88. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Public Safety. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Commit: means to transfer legal custody. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time. Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed. Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries. Department: means the Department of Public Safety. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Detention: means the holding of a person in a facility characterized by either physically restrictive construction or intensive staff supervision that is intended to prevent a person who is placed in or admitted to the facility from departing at will. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 Director: means the Director of Maine Emergency Medical Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Dispositional hearing: means a hearing to determine what order of disposition should be made concerning a juvenile who has been adjudicated as having committed a juvenile crime. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 Emergency medical services ambulance operator: means a person associated with a licensed ground ambulance service who operates an ambulance in emergency mode or transports patients and is not licensed under section 85. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Emergency medical treatment: means those skills, techniques and judgments, as defined by the board, which are directed to maintaining, improving or preventing the deterioration of the medical condition of the patient and which are appropriate to be delivered by trained persons at the scene of a patient's illness or injury outside the hospital and during transportation to the hospital. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other. Facility: means any physical structure. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 Flight nurse: means any registered professional nurse, currently licensed in the State, who has completed a prehospital care curriculum authorized by the Emergency Medical Services' Board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Hard-of-hearing person: means a person whose sense of hearing is defective, but still functional, with or without amplification. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1419 Health care practitioner: has the meaning set forth in Title 24, section 2502, subsection 1?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 in writing: include printing and other modes of making legible words. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases. Juvenile: means a person who had not attained 18 years of age at the time the person allegedly committed a juvenile crime. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 Juvenile community corrections officer: means an agent of the Department of Corrections authorized:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003Juvenile crime: has the meaning set forth in section 3103. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 Late deafened: means that the sense of hearing of an individual is nonfunctional for the purpose of communication and that the individual must depend primarily upon visual communication. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1419 Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC Legal custodian: means a person who has legal custody of a juvenile. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 License: means a full, temporary, provisional or conditional license issued by the board under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Maine Emergency Medical Services: means the board, the emergency medical services director and staff within the Department of Public Safety responsible for carrying out the purposes of this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Maine Emergency Medical Services protocol: means the written statement, developed by the Medical Direction and Practices Board and filed with the board, specifying the conditions under which some form of emergency medical care is to be given by emergency medical services persons. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Medical control physician: means a physician who supervises emergency medical services persons. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Medical Direction and Practices Board: means the board consisting of each regional medical director, an emergency physician representing the Maine Chapter of the American College of Emergency Medicine Physicians, an at-large member, a toxicologist or licensed pharmacist, a person licensed under section 85 to provide basic emergency medical treatment, a person licensed under section 85 to provide advanced emergency medical treatment, a pediatric physician, the statewide associate emergency medical services medical director and the statewide emergency medical services medical director. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Month: means a calendar month. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Municipal officers: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83Nontransporting emergency medical service: means any organization, person or persons who hold themselves out as providers of emergency medical treatment and who do not routinely provide transportation to ill or injured persons, and who routinely offer or provide services to the general public beyond the boundaries of a single recreational site, business, school or other facility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Online medical control: means the online physician, physician assistant or nurse practitioner, licensed by the State, authorized by a hospital to supervise and direct the actions of emergency medical services persons. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Order of adjudication: means any document, including but not limited to a judgment and commitment order including conditions of juvenile probation if imposed, any dismissal form or any written order that constitutes the final disposition of a juvenile petition. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 Physician: has the meaning set forth in Title 24, section 2502, subsection 3. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law. Probation: means a legal status created by court order in cases involving a juvenile adjudicated as having committed a juvenile crime that permits the juvenile to remain in the juvenile's own home or other placement designated by the Juvenile Court subject to revocation for violation of any condition imposed by the court. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed. Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land. Regional council: means a business entity recognized by the board that represents a geographical area of the State, as designated by the board, with respect to matters subject to this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Regions: means those geographical areas of the State designated by the board to be represented by a regional council. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant. Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action. Specialized customer communications equipment: includes but is not limited to teletypewriters, artificial larynges, signaling devices, amplified handsets, telecoil technology, large number dial overlays, direct telephone dialing and fax machines. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1419 Speech-impaired person: means a person whose speech is nonfunctional or defective for the purpose of ordinary communication. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1419 Statewide associate emergency medical services medical director: means a licensed physician appointed by the board pursuant to section 84, subsection 1, paragraph C. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system. Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident. Town: includes cities and plantations, unless otherwise expressed or implied. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Trauma: means a single or multisystem life-threatening or limb-threatening injury requiring immediate medical or surgical intervention or treatment to prevent death or permanent disability. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Trauma care system: means a subsystem within the emergency medical services system, consisting of an organized arrangement of personnel, equipment and facilities, designed to manage the treatment of the trauma patient. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 United States: includes territories and the District of Columbia. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72