Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 942

  • 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.
Each party jurisdiction shall provide for the payment of workers’ compensation and death benefits to injured members of the emergency forces of that party jurisdiction and to representatives of deceased members of those forces if the members sustain injuries or are killed while rendering aid pursuant to this compact, in the same manner and on the same terms as if the injury or death were sustained within their own party jurisdiction. [PL 1999, c. 696, §1 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY

PL 1999, c. 696, §1 (NEW).