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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 12 > Part 9 - Marine Resources

  • Abandonment: means any conduct on the part of the parent showing an intent to forego parental duties or relinquish parental claims. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
  • Abuse: includes , but is not limited to, rape or sexual assault, the striking of an individual, the use of excessive force in the use of bodily restraints, the use of bodily or chemical restraints in a manner that is not in compliance with federal and state laws, regulations and rules and verbal, nonverbal, mental and emotional harassment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19503
  • Abuse or neglect: means a threat to a child's health or welfare by physical, mental or emotional injury or impairment, sexual abuse or exploitation including under Title 17?A, sections 282, 852, 853 and 855 or deprivation of essential needs, or lack of protection from these, by a person responsible for the child. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
  • Abutting land: means real estate that shares a common boundary, or portion of a boundary, with land that is held in common ownership with land registered or being considered for registration under this chapter when the abutting real estate is within 50 feet of the land registered or being considered for registration. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 52
  • Academic detailing: means the provision of information regarding prescription drugs based on scientific and medical research, including information on therapeutic and cost-effective use of prescription drugs. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2685
  • Acceptable collateral: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Access to care: means the ability to obtain in a timely manner needed personal health services to achieve the best possible health outcomes balanced by the health system's resource limitations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Accessory dwelling unit: means a self?contained dwelling unit located within, attached to or detached from a single-family dwelling unit located on the same parcel of land. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Accompanied by an adult: means , with respect to operation of an ATV, within visual and voice contact and under the effective control of a child's parent or guardian or another person 21 years of age or older. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Accreditation: means a national federally recognized credentialing process resulting in the approval of a public health system or a municipal health department by a national federally recognized review board certifying that a public health system or a municipal health department has met specific performance requirements and standards. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 411
  • accumulated contributions: includes as much of the employer's contribution in the Retirement Allowance Fund as is needed to reach 7. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • activities following a traffic or pedestrian stop: include , but are not limited to, asking questions of a person, frisking a person, conducting consensual and nonconsensual searches of a person or property, seizing of property, requiring vehicle occupants to exit a vehicle during a traffic stop, issuing a citation and making an arrest. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 4751
  • Actuarial equivalent: means an amount of equal value when computed at the discount rate contained in actuarial assumptions adopted by the board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Actuary: means the individual or the organization designated by the board to be the technical advisor to the board under section 17107. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
  • Adjusted base minimum price: means the base minimum price plus any amounts established by the Maine Milk Commission to reflect the increased costs of production pursuant to section 2954, subsection 2, paragraph A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • Administrative unit: means the organization certified by the federal Small Business Administration to administer the Small Business Development Center Program in this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13031
  • Admitted assets: means assets recognized by the superintendent pursuant to section 901?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1110
  • Admitted assets: means assets recognized by the superintendent pursuant to section 901?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Adult: means a person who has attained the age of 18 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Adult care facilities: means facilities that are licensed by the Department of Health and Human Services and that offer programs for adults who need assistance or supervision and that are operated out of nonresidential commercial buildings. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
  • Advisory committee: means the Advisory Committee on the Fund To Address PFAS Contamination in section 320?L. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 320-K
  • Advisory council: means the Tobacco Prevention and Control Advisory Council. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 271
  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Affiliated business: means 2 businesses exhibiting either of the following relationships:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13080-P
  • Affiliated business: means 2 businesses exhibiting either of the following relationships:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5241
  • Affiliated business: means a member of a group of 2 or more businesses in which more than 50% of the voting stock of each member corporation or more than 50% of the ownership interest in a business other than a corporation is directly or indirectly owned by a common owner or owners, either corporate or noncorporate, or by one or more of the member businesses. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • Affiliated group: means a qualified business and its corresponding affiliated businesses. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13080-P
  • Affiliated group: means a designated business and its corresponding affiliated businesses. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5241
  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • Affordable housing: means a decent, safe and sanitary dwelling, apartment or other living accommodation for a household whose income does not exceed 80% of the median income for the area as defined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development under the United States Housing Act of 1937, Public Law 75-412, 50 Stat. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Affordable housing: means decent, safe and sanitary dwellings, apartments or other living accommodations for low-income and moderate-income households. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5002
  • Affordable housing: means a decent, safe and sanitary dwelling, apartment or other living accommodation for a household whose income does not exceed 120% of the median income for the area as defined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development under the United States Housing Act of 1937, Public Law 75-412, 50 Stat. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5246
  • AFIDA: means the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978, United States Code, title 7, § 3501, et seq. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 32
  • Age-friendly community: means a community where policies, services, settings and structures support and enable older people to actively age in place and that recognizes the capabilities, resources and needs of older adults, plans to meet the needs of older adults in flexible ways that support healthy and active aging, promotes the inclusion and contributions of older adults in all areas of community life, respects the self-determination and independence of older adults and protects those older adults who are most vulnerable. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Agency: means the protection and advocacy agency for persons with disabilities, designated by the Governor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19503
  • Agency enforcement action: means an enforcement action initiated by an agency against a small business. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 90-O
  • Agency liquor store: means a person that is licensed by the bureau to sell spirits, wine and malt liquor to be consumed off the premises. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Agency of jurisdiction: means the state agency which has use of and jurisdiction over the facility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1782
  • Agent: means an individual appointed to serve in the capacity of a superintendent. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1
  • Agent: means any person acting for or in behalf of another in any of the transactions which constitute being a dealer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1302
  • Agent: means any person who sells or distributes potatoes or rotation crops in commerce for or on behalf of producers or others and whose operations may include the planting, cultivating, harvesting, grading, packing and furnishing containers, supplies or other services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012
  • Aggravating factor: means any of the following circumstances with regard to the parent. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
  • Aggregate amount of investments: means the aggregate value of those investments as determined in accordance with statutory accounting principles pursuant to section 901?A and any rules adopted under that section. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1110
  • Aggregate amount of investments: means the aggregate value of those investments, as determined in accordance with statutory accounting principles pursuant to section 901?A and any rules adopted under that section, except as provided in section 1157, subsection 5. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Agricultural chemicals: means fungicides, insecticides, herbicides, and other pesticides. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 52
  • Agricultural composting operation: means composting that takes place on a farm. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 152
  • Agricultural land: means any land in Maine which is used or capable of use without substantial modification for production of agriculturally related products including, but not limited to, crops, livestock, poultry, dairy products and sod. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 32
  • Agricultural products: means those plants and animals and their products that are useful to humans and includes, but is not limited to, forages and sod crops, grains and feed crops, dairy and dairy products, poultry and poultry products, bees and bees' products, livestock and livestock products, manure and compost and fruits, berries, vegetables, flowers, seeds, grasses and other similar products, or any other plant, animal or plant or animal products that supply humans with food, feed, fiber or fur. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 152
  • Agricultural society: means a nonprofit organization or association incorporated in the State to promote education and encourage improvement in agriculture. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 81
  • Agricultural support services: means the aerial or surface application of seed, fertilizer, pesticides or soil amendments and custom harvesting. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 152
  • Agritourism activity: means any agricultural activity carried out on a farm or ranch that members of the general public are allowed to view or participate in, including farming, ranching, historical and cultural activities, harvest-your-own activities and attractions related to farming or ranching. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 251
  • Agritourism professional: means a person who is engaged in the business of farming or ranching and provides one or more agritourism activities, whether or not for compensation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 251
  • Aircraft: means a machine or device designed for flight. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Airmobile: means any vehicle propelled by mechanical power that is designed to travel upon a cushion of air on or within 2 feet of the water or land surface of the earth. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Alcohol: means the substance known as ethyl alcohol, hydrated oxide of ethyl or spirit of wine which is commonly produced by the fermentation or distillation of grain, starch, molasses, sugar, potatoes or other substances, and includes all dilutions and mixtures of these substances. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • All-weather road: means a public or private road that may be traversed during all seasons of the year. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 8881
  • Allegation: something that someone says happened.
  • Allocation: means the privilege of taking a specified number of passengers per day on whitewater trips on a particular river, as specified annually. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 12901
  • Alpine tundra: means high-elevation, treeless areas beyond the timberline that are dominated by low herbaceous or shrubby vegetation and, specifically, areas that are designated as alpine tundra by the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry by rule pursuant to Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Alternative working hours employment: means employment in the classified or unclassified service capable of being filled through flexible hours, job-sharing or part-time employment, as defined in subsections 2, 3 and 4. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 902
  • Ambulance services: means those emergency services primarily designed to transport ill or injured persons to available medical facilities and to administer first aid and emergency life-support systems in the interim period. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 451
  • Ambulatory surgical facility: means a facility, not part of a hospital, that provides surgical treatment to patients not requiring hospitalization. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • 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.
  • Amenities: means items of street furniture, signs and landscaping, including, but not limited to, plantings, benches, trash receptacles, street signs, sidewalks and pedestrian malls. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Amenities: means items of street furniture, signs and landscaping, including, but not limited to, plantings, benches, trash receptacles, street signs, sidewalks and pedestrian malls. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5246
  • Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
  • Ancillary obligation: means the obligation of the bond bank in connection with liquor operation revenue bonds issued under this subchapter under any of the following entered into by the bond bank:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 6052
  • Animal: means an animal entered in an event. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 81
  • Annual percentage rate: The cost of credit at a yearly rate. It is calculated in a standard way, taking the average compound interest rate over the term of the loan so borrowers can compare loans. Lenders are required by law to disclose a card account's APR. Source: FDIC
  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Antibody to HIV: means the specific immunoglobulin produced by the body's immune system in response to HIV. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19201
  • antique ATV: means an all-terrain vehicle more than 25 years old that is substantially maintained in its original or restored condition. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Antique snowmobile: means a snowmobile more than 25 years old that is registered as an antique snowmobile under section 13104, subsection 5. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Antlerless moose: means a moose without antlers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • 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.
  • Appeals board: means the State Civil Service Appeals Board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 7032
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Applicant: means any person applying for a license under this Article. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012
  • Appointing authority: means the officer, board, commission, person or group of persons having the power by virtue of the Constitution of Maine, a statute or lawfully delegated authority to make appointments. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 7032
  • Appointment of agent: means a statement appointing an agent for service of process filed by a domestic entity that is not a filing entity or a nonqualified foreign entity under section 112. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Appraised value: means the fair market value of property without the consideration of the effect, if any, of dedication or other preservation-related restrictions. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 6201
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Aquarium: means an enclosed container used in importing, possessing or displaying nonnative and exotic species of fish or other aquatic organisms that has a closed operating system, that is located within a home, exhibition building or other permanent all-season structure and that does not allow the discharge of water or aquatic organisms into the inland waters of the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Aquatic plant: means a plant species that requires a permanently flooded freshwater habitat. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Arborist: means a person who, for compensation, takes down or fells, diagnoses or evaluates the condition of shade or ornamental trees; solicits, recommends or supervises the treatment of those trees; or in any manner or for any purpose treats or cares for those trees. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2173
  • Archery equipment: means a bow or crossbow. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Artificial lure: includes , but is not limited to, artificial flies, spinners, spoons, poppers, plugs, jigs and plastic, rubber or other artificial imitations of natural bait. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Arts district: means a specified area within the corporate limits of a municipality or plantation that has been designated by the municipality or plantation for the purpose of providing employment and cultural opportunities through the development of arts opportunities, including, but not limited to, museums, galleries, arts education, art studios, performing arts venues and associated businesses. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Aseptically processed and packaged: means hermetically sealed in a container and thermally processed to render the product free of microorganisms capable of reproducing in the product under normal nonrefrigeration conditions of storage and distribution. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2900
  • Assessor: means the State Tax Assessor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13080-P
  • Assets of the investment trust fund: means the funds appropriated or otherwise provided to fund the investment trust fund, together with the interest, earnings and returns on the funds. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17431
  • Associate health officer: means a municipal employee who has knowledge of the community and meets the educational, training and experience standards established by the local health officer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 411
  • Association: means any corporation organized under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 2003
  • At-risk: means there is reasonable cause to suspect that a child's health, safety and welfare is in jeopardy due to abuse, neglect, abandonment or similar circumstances and that return to the child's or the child's parent's country of origin or country of last habitual residence would not be in the best interest of the child. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4099-I
  • Atlantic salmon: means the anadromous fish species Salmo salar that customarily migrates from inland waters to the ocean as part of its life cycle. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.
  • ATV: includes , but is not limited to, a multitrack, multiwheel or low-pressure tire vehicle; a motorcycle or related 2-wheel, 3-wheel or belt-driven vehicle; an amphibious machine; or other means of transportation deriving motive power from a source other than muscle or wind. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • auction: means the offering of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, equines, domesticated cervids, poultry and other animals raised for food or fiber for sale by means of exchanges between an auctioneer and bidders. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1452
  • Auditorium: means a commercially operated indoor or outdoor facility designed or used for the gathering of an audience for speeches and live performances of theater, music, dance or other performing arts that charges a fee and has adequate facilities for the sale and consumption of liquor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Authority: means the Loring Development Authority of Maine. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13080-A
  • Authority: means the Loring Development Authority of Maine. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13080-P
  • Authority: means the Washington County Development Authority. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13083-B
  • Authority: means the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority established in section 13083?G. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13083-H
  • Authority: means the Maine State Housing Authority. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4861
  • Authority: means the Maine State Housing Authority established pursuant to section 4722. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4961
  • Authority: means the Maine State Housing Authority. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4991
  • Authority: means the Maine State Housing Authority. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5246
  • Authorized agent: means employees of the department, veterinarians licensed by the State to practice veterinary medicine while performing official duties for the department, employees of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, or other persons designated by the commissioner. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1751
  • Automobile graveyard: includes an area used for automobile dismantling, salvage and recycling operations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3752
  • Automobile recycling business: means the business premises of a dealer or a recycler licensed under Title 29?A, sections 851 to 1112 who purchases or acquires salvage vehicles for the purpose of reselling the vehicles or component parts of the vehicles or rebuilding or repairing salvage vehicles for the purpose of resale or for selling the basic materials in the salvage vehicles, as long as 80% of the business premises specified in the site plan in section 3755?A, subsection 1, paragraph C is used for automobile recycling operations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3752
  • Available facility: means a facility in which all or a part of the facility is unused and available for leasing. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1782
  • Average final compensation: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Average personal income growth: means the average for the prior 10 calendar years, ending with the most recent calendar year for which data is available, of the percent change in personal income in this State, as estimated by the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1531
  • Average wholesale price: means the wholesale price charged on a specific commodity that is assigned by the drug manufacturer and is listed in a nationally recognized drug pricing file. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2681
  • Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
  • Baitfish: means only those species in the following list:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Baitfish trap: means a device used to take baitfish fitted with rigid entrance or exit holes and having a volume no greater than 50 cubic feet. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Balanced budget: A budget in which receipts equal outlays.
  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • base: means those properties and facilities within the geographic boundaries of the United States Department of Defense air force base at Limestone existing on July 13, 1993. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13080-A
  • base: means those properties and facilities within the geographic boundaries of the United States Department of Defense naval air station at Brunswick existing on the effective date of this section. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13083-H
  • Base area: means the area within the geographic boundaries of Loring Air Force Base. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13080-A
  • Base area: means the area within the geographic boundaries of Loring Air Force Base, as defined in section 13080?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13080-P
  • Base area: means the area within the geographical boundaries of any decommissioned federal military facility located within Washington County to which the authority has taken title. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13083-B
  • Base area: means the area within the geographic boundaries of Brunswick Naval Air Station. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13083-H
  • Base level of employment: means the total employment in the base area as of July 1, 1996. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13080-P
  • Base level of employment: means the greater of either the total employment in the State of a business as of March 31st, June 30th, September 30th and December 31st of the calendar year immediately preceding the year of the business's application to become a certified Pine Tree Development Zone business divided by 4 or its average employment during the base period. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • Base minimum price: means Class I, Class II and Class III prices established pursuant to the northeast marketing area milk marketing order. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • Base period: means the 3 calendar years preceding the calendar year in which an application for approval of a state tax increment financing district is submitted to the commissioner by a municipality. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5241
  • Base period: means the 3 calendar years prior to the year in which a business applies to be certified as a qualified Pine Tree Development Zone business. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
  • Bear bait: means an animal or plant or derivative of an animal or plant used to attract bear. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Bed and breakfast: means a place that advertises itself as a bed and breakfast where the public for a fee may obtain overnight accommodations that include a sleeping room or rooms and at least one meal per day. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Bed and breakfast guest: means a person whose name and address are registered on a registry maintained by a bed and breakfast and who is the bona fide occupant of a room of the bed and breakfast. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Beneficiary: means a person or persons designated by a member to receive a benefit under this Part or a person otherwise entitled to receive a benefit under this Part. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Benefit: means any payment made, or required to be made, to a beneficiary under chapter 423, subchapter V or chapter 425, subchapter V. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Beverage container: means a can, bottle, jar or other container made of aluminum or metal that is sealed by a manufacturer and contained, at the time of sale, a beverage, as defined by Title 38, section 3102, subsection 1, but does not include a beer keg. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3771
  • Bid: means a written offer or proposal by an exhibitor to a distributor, in response to an "invitation to bid" stating the terms under which the exhibitor will agree to exhibit a motion picture. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 1901
  • Biennial base year appropriation: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1531
  • Blend price: means the price of milk per hundredweight computed as the sum of the Class I price multiplied by the percentage of milk sold as Class I milk, the Class II price multiplied by the percentage sold as Class II milk and the Class III price multiplied by the percentage sold as Class III milk. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • Board: means the board of trustees, established under section 12004?F, subsection 9, to administer the Maine Public Employees Retirement System. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Board: means the Maine Retirement Savings Board under section 172. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 171
  • Board: means the Maine Potato Board established in Title 36, section 4603. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 970
  • Board: means the Maine Dairy Promotion Board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2991
  • Board: means the Maine Dairy Promotion Board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2997
  • Board: means the Victims' Compensation Board established in section 12004?J, subsection 11. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 3360-S
  • Board: means the Manufactured Housing Board or its employees. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9061
  • Board: means the Manufactured Housing Board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9002
  • Board: means the Advisory Board for the Licensing of Taxidermists established by Title 5, section 12004?I, subsection 23?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 12952
  • Board of directors: means the board of directors of the corporation established in section 13203, subsection 4. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13202
  • Boater safety and education course: means an online or in-person education course that:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Boater safety and education course certificate: means a certificate or other evidence of completion of a boater safety and education course or an equivalency exam specified or approved by the commissioner pursuant to section 13052, subsection 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Bona fide occupational exposure: means skin, eye, mucous membrane or parenteral contact of a person with the potentially infectious blood or other body fluids of another person that results from the performance of duties by the exposed person in the course of employment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19201
  • Bond: means a bond or note or other evidence of indebtedness authorized under this article, whether issued under or pursuant to a bond resolution, trust indenture, loan or other security agreement. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13080-A
  • Bond: means a bond or note or other evidence of indebtedness authorized under this article, whether issued under or pursuant to a bond resolution, trust indenture, loan or other security agreement. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13083-H
  • Bond: means a bond or note or other evidence of indebtedness authorized under this chapter, whether issued under or pursuant to a bond resolution, trust indenture, loan or other security agreement. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13202
  • Bonds: means any bonds, notes, interim certificates, debentures or other obligations issued by an authority under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4702
  • Bonds: means bonds of the bank issued under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5903
  • Books and records: means books, records, accounts, memoranda or other data pertaining to the purchase and distribution of milk. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2951
  • Boston market dealer: means any dealer as defined in subsection 4 who purchases milk from producers subject to the price regulations of the northeast marketing area milk marketing order. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • Boston market producer: means any Maine milk producer selling to a dealer marketing milk subject to the northeast marketing area milk marketing order, or any agricultural cooperative that buys milk from or handles milk for such a producer and sells it to such a dealer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • bottle: means to package spirits, wine or malt liquor for sale in containers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Bottler: means a person that extracts water in this State to be sold as bottled water. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2660-AA
  • Boundary waters between Maine and New Brunswick: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Bounds of the watercourse: means the high-water marks of the shorelines of the lakes and ponds, the high-water marks of the intervening and connecting waters and the high-water marks of the banks of the streams and rivers of the watercourse. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1872
  • bow: includes a compound bow, a recurve bow and a long bow. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Bow: means the forward half of a watercraft. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Brewery: means a person that engages in the activities under either paragraph A or B, or both:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Broker: means any person engaged in the business of negotiating sales of potatoes in commerce for or on behalf of the seller or the purchaser, respectively. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012
  • Budget authority: Authority provided by law to enter into obligations that will result in outlays of Federal funds. Budget authority may be classified by the period of availability (one-year, multiyear, no-year), by the timing of congressional action (current or permanent), or by the manner of determining the amount available (definite or indefinite).
  • Budget committee: means the Penobscot County Budget Committee. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 900-K
  • Bulk milk hauler and sampler: means a person who collects samples and transports raw milk from a farm or raw milk products to or from a farm, milk plant, receiving station or transfer station and has in that person's possession a permit from any state to sample such products. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2900
  • Bureau: means the Bureau of Health. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 271
  • Bureau: means the Bureau of Revenue Services, which may be referred to as "Maine Revenue Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111
  • Bureau: means the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Bureau: means the Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Health. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19251
  • Business: means any corporation, partnership, limited liability corporation, professional corporation or any other legal business entity recognized under the laws of the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 4651
  • Business concern: means a person, partnership or corporation engaged in providing property, products or services for the purpose of gain, benefit or advantage, either direct or indirect, whether or not the concern is organized for profit or not for profit. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1552
  • Business entity: means a sole proprietorship, corporation, limited liability company, association, general or limited partnership, joint stock company, joint venture, mutual fund, bank, trust, real estate investment trust, joint tenancy or other similar form of business organization, whether organized as a for-profit or nonprofit organization. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Buyer: means a person who buys or contracts to buy goods. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 2-103
  • Buyer: means any person other than a consumer who purchases or contracts to purchase potatoes or rotation crops. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012
  • Cabinet: means the Children's Cabinet established in section 19131. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 24051
  • Cable television company: means any person owning, controlling, operating, managing or leasing a cable television system within the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001
  • Call center: means a business enterprise that employs 50 or more full-time employees for the purpose of customer service. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • Canoe: means a form of small watercraft with no rudder or sails that is long and narrow, sharp on both ends or sharp on one end and blunt on the other end usually propelled by paddles or a small motor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1872
  • Cap: means an agreement obligating the seller to make payments to the buyer with each payment based on the amount by which a reference price or level or the performance or value of one or more underlying interests exceeds a predetermined number, sometimes called the "strike rate" or "strike price. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Capital expenditure: means an expenditure, including a force account expenditure or predevelopment activities, that under generally accepted accounting principles is not properly chargeable as an expense of operation and maintenance and, for the purposes of this chapter, includes capitalized interest on borrowed funds and the fair market value of any property or equipment that is acquired under lease or comparable arrangement or by donation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Capital reserve fund: means any capital reserve fund created or established as provided in section 6006, subsection 1?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5903
  • Captured assessed value: means the amount, as a percentage or stated sum, of increased assessed value that is utilized from year to year to finance the project costs contained within the development program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Captured assessed value: means the amount, as a percentage or stated sum, of increased assessed value that is utilized from year to year to finance the project costs contained within the development program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5241
  • Captured assessed value: means the amount, as a percentage or stated sum, of increased assessed value that is utilized from year to year to finance the project costs contained within the affordable housing development program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5246
  • Case plan prescription: means a plan developed by the family support team. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4092
  • Cash equivalents: means highly rated, highly liquid and readily marketable obligations that are readily convertible into known amounts of cash without a penalty and have a remaining term to maturity of one year or less. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Casualty insurance: means all contracts of insurance covered by section 707. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 2932
  • Catastrophic injury: means an extremely serious injury that may result in permanent disability or a long-lasting medical condition. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 3360
  • Catastrophic occurrence: means a fire, flood, hurricane, windstorm, earthquake or other similar event that is not within the control of a business to prevent. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • Catering: means service of liquor with or without food by a person to groups at a prearranged function. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
  • Cave: includes natural subsurface water and drainage systems, but does not include any mine, tunnel or other artificial excavation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 544-J
  • Certificate of approval holder: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • certified seed: as used in this Title shall be deemed to mean potato, vegetable, forage crop or grain seeds as shall have been grown and prepared for sale in accordance with regulations laid down by the commissioner and for which a certificate or tag has been issued as provided in section 2103. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2101
  • Certified seed source: means a source of hemp seeds that are certified by a 3rd party as producing hemp having a delta?9?tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2231
  • Cervid: means a member of the cervidae family and hybrids, including deer, elk, caribou, reindeer and related species, specified by the commissioner by rule with the written concurrence of the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1333
  • Chambers: A judge's office.
  • Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
  • Chief executive officer: means the Chief Executive Officer of the Maine Public Employees Retirement System. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Chief Information Officer: means the person who holds the lead information technology position within the executive branch that directs, coordinates and oversees information technology policy making, planning, architecture and standardization. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1972
  • Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
  • Child: means any natural or legally adopted, born or unborn, progeny of a member. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • child: means an unmarried person who has not attained 21 years of age. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4099-I
  • Child care facilities: means facilities that are licensed by the Department of Health and Human Services that provide care for at least 6 children who are less than 18 years of age by persons who are not family members, legal guardians or other custodians of the children and that are operated out of nonresidential commercial buildings. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Child or children: means a person who has not attained the age of 18 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Child protection proceeding: means a proceeding on a child protection petition under subchapter VI, a subsequent proceeding to review or modify a case disposition under section 4038, an appeal under section 4006, a proceeding on a termination petition under subchapter VI, or a proceeding on a medical treatment petition under subchapter VIII. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
  • Child sex trafficking: means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision or obtaining of a child for the purposes of a commercial sex act as defined in 22 United States Code § 7102(4). See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
  • Civic auditorium: means a municipal, county or state or a quasi-municipal, quasi-county or quasi-state owned or operated auditorium or civic center. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Civil deputy: means a deputy who meets the requirements for a civil deputy adopted by the sheriff and has been designated by the sheriff to enforce civil laws and serve civil process. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 351
  • Class A lounge: means a place where liquor is sold at tables, booths and counters. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Class A restaurant: means a place that is regularly used for the purpose of providing full meals for the public on the premises, that is equipped with a separate and complete kitchen and that maintains adequate dining room equipment and capacity for preparing and serving full meals upon the premises. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Class I milk: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2991
  • Classified service: means all offices and positions of trust and employment in state service, except those placed in the unclassified service by chapter 71. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 7032
  • Clear-cut: means any timber harvesting on a forested site greater than 5 acres in size that results in a residual basal area of trees over 4 1/2 inches in diameter measured at 4 1/2 feet above the ground of less than 30 square feet per acre, unless, after harvesting, the site has a well-distributed stand of acceptable growing stock, as defined by rule, of at least 3 feet in height for softwood trees and 5 feet in height for hardwood trees that meets the regeneration standards defined under section 8869, subsection 1. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 8868
  • Clerk: means the person described in Title 13?C, chapter 5?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Clerk filing: means the public organic document of a domestic filing entity formed under Title 13?C. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
  • Clone: means a hemp plant produced using any part of another hemp plant other than the seeds of that hemp plant. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2231
  • Club: means a group of individuals incorporated and operating in a bona fide manner solely for purposes of recreational, social, patriotic or fraternal nature and not for pecuniary gain. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Cluster development: means a form of development that allows a subdivision design in which individual lot sizes and setbacks are reduced in exchange for the creation of common open space and recreation areas, the preservation of environmentally sensitive areas, agriculture and silviculture and the reduction in the size of road and utility systems. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Code: means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Code: means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and amendments to that Code as of December 31, 2022. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111
  • code enforcement officer: means a person certified under this section and employed by a municipality to enforce all applicable laws and ordinances in the following areas:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4451
  • Collar: means an agreement to receive payments as the buyer of an option, cap or floor and to make payments as the seller of a different option, cap or floor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • commerce: shall include the advertising, offering for sale, sale or distribution of any services and any property, tangible or intangible, real, personal or mixed, and any other article, commodity or thing of value wherever situate, and shall include any trade or commerce directly or indirectly affecting the people of this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 206
  • Commercial: means for financial compensation or other remuneration. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 12901
  • Commercial clerk: means a clerk who is listed under section 106. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Commercial farm: means a farm that produces any farm product with the intent that the farm product be sold or otherwise disposed of to generate income. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 320-K
  • Commercial farming: means the production of any farm product with the intent that that farm product be sold or otherwise disposed of to generate income. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 52
  • Commercial fisheries business: includes , but is not limited to:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 6201
  • Commercial large game shooting area: means an enclosed area in which large game are kept and a fee is charged to pursue and kill or pursue and attempt to kill large game. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1341
  • Commercial registered agent: means an individual or a domestic or foreign entity listed under section 106. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Commercial unit: means such a unit of goods as by commercial usage is a single whole for purposes of lease and division of which materially impairs its character or value on the market or in use. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 2-1103
  • Commercially: means , with regard to the buying, selling, bartering or trading of wildlife parts, for the purpose of resale or profit or receiving any form of remuneration. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Commission: means the Maine Milk Commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2951
  • Commission: means the Public Utilities Commission established pursuant to Title 35?A, section 103. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4961
  • Commission: means the Maine Small Business and Entrepreneurship Commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13031
  • Commission: means the State Liquor and Lottery Commission established in Title 5, section 12004?G, subsection 14. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 1-A
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Administrative and Financial Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1972
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Education or the commissioner's designee. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry or the commissioner's duly authorized agent. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1302
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry or the commissioner's duly authorized agent. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1751
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Administrative and Financial Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17431
  • Commissioner: includes a designee of the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2211
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry or the commissioner's duly authorized agent. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2900
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Administrative and Financial Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1531
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Administrative and Financial Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1552
  • Commissioner: shall mean the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 3322
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9061
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 544
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development or the commissioner's designee. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13031
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5241
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1801
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry or the commissioner's authorized agents. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 32
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13054
  • Committee: means a joint standing committee of the Legislature. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 11111
  • Committee: means the Revenue Forecasting Committee established in Title 5, section 1710?E. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5241
  • Committee membership: Legislators are assigned to specific committees by their party. Seniority, regional balance, and political philosophy are the most prominent factors in the committee assignment process.
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Communications: means a system for sending and receiving information to aid in law enforcement or law enforcement functions between fixed or mobile points, including telephone, teletype or radio systems. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 451
  • Community conservation project: means a conservation project of local or regional significance that promotes one or more of the following: public outdoor recreational access to land and waters, including for underserved populations; public health; connection between conserved lands and population centers; local or regional agriculture; conservation of cultural and historical resources on undeveloped lands; protection of lakes, rivers or streams; conservation of fish or wildlife habitat; protection of public drinking water supplies; conservation of community forests; local economic development; opportunities for environmental learning; nonmotorized transportation options; or other priorities as determined by the board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 6201
  • Community-based AIDS organization: means a nonprofit community organization whose primary purpose is to provide educational information on HIV-related illnesses, support to persons with HIV-related illnesses and assistance to families and others providing care and support to persons with HIV-related illnesses. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19251
  • Community-based organization: means a nonprofit organization that has:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13063-J
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Complaint: means a request to the special advocate for assistance under section 90?Q. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 90-O
  • Complaint: means , but is not limited to, any report or communication, formal or informal, written or oral, including media accounts and telephone calls from any source, including anonymous calls, alleging abuse or neglect of a person with a disability. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19503
  • complex: means the Maine Space Complex established pursuant to section 13203, subsection 1. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13202
  • Composting: means the controlled aerobic decomposition of organic materials to produce a soil-like product beneficial to plant growth and suitable for agronomic use. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 152
  • Comprehensive community health coalition: means a multisector coalition that serves a defined local geographic area and is composed of designated organizational representatives and interested community members who share a commitment to improving their communities' health and quality of life and that includes public health in its core mission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 411
  • Comprehensive economic impact area: means the geographic area affected by a proposed large-scale retail development. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4366
  • Comprehensive economic impact study: means a municipal study that estimates the effects of a large-scale retail development on the local economy, downtown and community pursuant to section 4367, subsection 4. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4366
  • Comprehensive plan: means a document or interrelated documents containing the elements established under section 4326, subsections 1 to 4, including the strategies for an implementation program which are consistent with the goals and guidelines established under subchapter II. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Conditional zoning: means the process by which the municipal legislative body may rezone property to permit the use of that property subject to conditions not generally applicable to other properties similarly zoned. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Construction: when used in connection with "health care facility" means the establishment, erection, building, purchase or other acquisition of a health care facility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Consumer: means any person other than a milk dealer who purchases milk for fluid consumption. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2951
  • Consumer: means any person other than a milk dealer who purchases milk for fluid consumption. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2991
  • Consumer lease: means a lease that a lessor regularly engaged in the business of leasing or selling makes to a lessee who is an individual and who takes under the lease primarily for a personal, family or household purpose, if the total payments to be made under the lease contract, excluding payments for options to renew or buy, do not exceed $25,000. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 2-1103
  • Consumer pack: means a unit of 50 pounds or less net weight of potatoes contained in a bag or other type of container. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1032
  • Consumer Price Index: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Contaminant: means any physical, chemical, biological or radiological substance or matter in water. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2601
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Contract for sale: includes both a present sale of goods and a contract to sell goods at a future time. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 2-106
  • Contract zoning: means the process by which the property owner, in consideration of the rezoning of that person's property, agrees to the imposition of certain conditions or restrictions not imposed on other similarly zoned properties. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Control station: means a regular stopping place maintained by the bureau where users of the waterway may be registered. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1872
  • Controller: means the State Controller. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1552
  • Conversion: means a change in character of residential real property from a rental to an ownership basis. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1742
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Cooperating entities: means those private nonprofit organizations, municipal conservation commissions, local governments, federal agencies or other bodies designated by the Land for Maine's Future Board pursuant to section 6203?E or 6203?F. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 6201
  • Cooperative affordable housing corporation: means a domestic corporation that is organized under or elects to be governed by the provisions of this subchapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1742
  • Cooperative interest: means the ownership interest in a cooperative affordable housing corporation that is evidenced by a membership share. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1742
  • Cooperative property: means the real and personal property, including mobile and manufactured homes, in this State owned or leased by a cooperative affordable housing corporation for the primary purpose of residential use. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1742
  • Corporation: means the Maine Space Corporation established in section 13201. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13202
  • cost: includes the fair market value. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Cost of issuance: means an item of expense directly or indirectly payable or reimbursable by the bond bank and related to the authorization, sale or issuance of liquor operation revenue bonds, including, but not limited to, underwriting fees and fees and expenses of professional consultants and fiduciaries. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 6052
  • Council: means the Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2991
  • Council: means the Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2997
  • Council: means the Statewide Homeless Council. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5002
  • Council: means the Maine Children's Cabinet Early Childhood Advisory Council established in subsection 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 24051
  • Counter-party: means a business entity that is the other party to an investment practices transaction with an insurer or, as to a securities lending transaction, the custodian bank or agent, if any, acting on behalf of an insurer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • counter-party exposure amount: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
  • county commissioners: means the county commissioners of Knox County. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 751
  • County commissioners: means the elected county commissioners of Piscataquis County. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 822
  • county commissioners: means the county commissioners of York County and "county" means York County. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 831
  • County commissioners: means the county commissioners of Waldo County. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 852
  • County commissioners: means the county commissioners of Kennebec County. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 861
  • county commissioners: means the county commissioners of Somerset County. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 895
  • County legislative delegation: means all state legislators whose legislative districts, in whole or in part, lie within the boundaries of a county. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 1
  • County officers: means the commissioners, treasurer, sheriff, register of deeds and register of probate of a county. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 1
  • County or municipal law enforcement officer: means a person who by virtue of employment by a county or municipal government in the State is vested by law with the power to make arrests for crimes or serve criminal process, whether that power extends to all crimes or is limited to specific crimes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 286-M
  • Court: includes , but is not limited to, the Probate Court and District Court, or any other state court with juvenile jurisdiction. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4099-I
  • Court: means any District Court and, with regard to section 4659, the tribal court of the Passamaquoddy Tribe or the Penobscot Nation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 4651
  • Court reporter: A person who makes a word-for-word record of what is said in court and produces a transcript of the proceedings upon request.
  • Covered drugs: means drugs that are on the MaineCare preferred drug list established and revised from time to time by the department pursuant to its authority to operate the MaineCare program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2681
  • Covered employee: means an individual who is 18 years of age or older who is employed by a covered employer and who has wages or other compensation that are allocable to the State during a calendar year. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 171
  • Covered employer: means a person or entity engaged in a business, industry, profession, trade or other enterprise in the State, whether for profit or not for profit, that has not offered to its employees, effective in form or operation at any time within the current calendar year or 2 preceding calendar years, a specified tax-favored retirement plan. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 171
  • Cowling: means the forward or rear portion of a snowmobile, usually of fiberglass or similar material, surrounding the motor and clutch assembly. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. Source: OCC
  • Creditable service: means a person's membership service, the person's prior service and service for which credit is allowable under sections 17755 and 17756; section 17760, subsection 3; section 18258; sections 18355 and 18356; and section 18360, subsection 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Crime: means one of the following:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 3360
  • Crime: means a criminal offense committed under the laws of the State that resulted in verifiable property loss of a person other than a person who committed the crime. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 3360-S
  • Criminal proceeding: includes the investigation and prosecution of criminal charges. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 4701
  • Critical area: means any natural area documented by the Natural Areas Program that is conserved or protected in its natural condition through voluntary action. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 544
  • Critical rural area: means a rural area that is specifically identified and designated by a municipality's or multimunicipal region's comprehensive plan as deserving maximum protection from development to preserve natural resources and related economic activities that may include, but are not limited to, significant farmland, forest land or mineral resources; high-value wildlife or fisheries habitat; scenic areas; public water supplies; scarce or especially vulnerable natural resources; flood buffer areas and flood-prone areas; and open lands functionally necessary to support a vibrant rural economy. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Critical waterfront area: means a shorefront area characterized by functionally water-dependent uses, as defined in Title 38, section 436?A, subsection 6, and specifically identified and designated by a municipality's or multimunicipal region's comprehensive plan as deserving maximum protection from incompatible development. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Crossbow: means a device for propelling an arrow or bolt by means of traverse limbs and a string, mounted on a stock and having a working mechanical trigger safety device and a minimum draw weight of 100 pounds. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Current assessed value: means the assessed value of the district certified by the municipal or plantation assessor as of April 1st of each year that the development district remains in effect. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Current assessed value: means the assessed value of the district certified by the municipal assessor as of April 1st of each year that the affordable housing development district remains in effect. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5246
  • Custodial parent: means a parent with custody. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
  • Custodian: means the person who has legal custody and power over the person of a child. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
  • Dairy or dairy farm: means any place or premises where one or more cows, goats or sheep are kept and from which milk or milk products are provided, sold or offered for sale. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2900
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Data processing: means the process that encompasses all computerized and auxiliary automated information handling, including systems analysis and design, conversion of data, computer programming, information storage and retrieval, data and facsimile transmission, requisite system controls, simulation and all related interactions between people and machines. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1972
  • Dealer: means any person or entity engaged in the business of buying livestock or poultry primarily for resale, whether the purchase or sale is completed by cash, delayed payment, transfer, exchange, barter or shipment on commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1302
  • Dealer: means any person engaged in the business of buying or selling potatoes or rotation crops in wholesale or jobbing quantities in commerce and includes:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012
  • Dealer: means any person who purchases or receives milk for sale as the consignee or agent of a producer, or handles for sale, shipment, storage or processing within the State and shall include a producer-dealer and a sub-dealer, but shall not include a store other than an integrated operation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2951
  • Dealer: includes a producer dealer or a store. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2991
  • Dealer: includes a producer dealer, a subdealer or a store. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2997
  • Dealer: means any person or entity who purchases or receives milk from a producer within the State for processing and sale within or outside the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • Dealer: means any person engaged in the sale, leasing, or distribution of new manufactured homes primarily to persons who in good faith purchase or lease a manufactured home for purposes other than resale. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9061
  • Dealer: means a person engaged in the sale, offering for sale, brokering or distribution of manufactured housing to a licensed dealer, developer dealer or consumer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9002
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Demonstrated use: means for a given outfitter for a given river the average number of passengers carried on the 10 Saturdays or Sundays with greatest use during the year. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 12901
  • Densely developed area: means any commercial, industrial or compact residential area of 10 or more acres with an existing density of at least one principal structure per 2 acres. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4401
  • Department: means the Department of Economic and Community Development or its successor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13080-A
  • Department: means the Department of Education. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1
  • Department: means any department, commission, institution or agency of State Government including the Maine Community College System. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Department: means the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Department: means the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation or its employees. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9061
  • Department: means the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Department: means the Department of Economic and Community Development. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13031
  • Department: means the Department of Economic and Community Development. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Department: means the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1801
  • Department: means the Department of Economic and Community Development. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • Department: means the Department of Economic and Community Development. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13054
  • Dependent: means a spouse, an unmarried child under 19 years of age, a child who is a student under 23 years of age and financially dependent upon the enrollee, a child of any age who is disabled and dependent upon the enrollee or a domestic partner. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 286-M
  • Dependent child: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
  • Deputy: means either a full-time or part-time county law enforcement officer appointed under section 381. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 351
  • derivative instrument: includes options, warrants not attached to another financial instrument purchased by the insurer, caps, floors, collars, swaps, forwards, futures and any other substantially similar agreements, options or instruments, or any series or combinations of those agreements, options or instruments. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Derivative proceeding: means a civil suit in the right of a domestic corporation or, to the extent provided in section 758, in the right of a foreign corporation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13-C Sec. 751
  • Derivative transaction: means a transaction involving the use of one or more derivative instruments. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Designated agent: means a person, firm, company, corporation or other legal entity representing the landowner in timber sales or land management. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 8881
  • Designated beneficiary: means the beneficiary designated under section 17952. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17951
  • Designated beneficiary: means the beneficiary designated under section 18552. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 18551
  • Designated business: means a business located within the boundaries of a development district and designated by the municipality as a "designated business" for purposes of state tax increment financing. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5241
  • detention: means the confining of an adult held in lawful custody in a specially constructed or modified facility designed to ensure continued custody and control. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 451
  • Developer dealer: means a person who purchases state-certified manufactured housing from a licensed manufacturer or dealer for placement on property owned by the developer dealer and who offers the manufactured housing for sale to the initial purchaser of the manufactured housing. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9002
  • Development: means a change in land use involving alteration of the land, water or vegetation, or the addition or alteration of structures or other construction not naturally occurring. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Development: when used in connection with health service, means the undertaking of those activities that on their completion will result in the offering of a new health service to the public. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Development district: means a specified area within the corporate limits of a municipality or plantation that has been designated as provided under sections 5223 and 5226 and that is to be developed under a development program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Development district: means a specified area within the corporate limits of a municipality that has been designated as provided under section 5226 and that is to be developed by the municipality under a development program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5241
  • Development program: means a statement of means and objectives designed to provide new employment opportunities, retain existing employment, improve or broaden the tax base, construct or improve the physical facilities and structures or improve the quality of pedestrian and vehicular transportation, as described in section 5224, subsection 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Development program: means a statement of means and objectives designed to provide new employment opportunities, retain existing employment, improve or broaden the tax base and improve the physical facilities and structures or the quality of pedestrian and vehicular transportation, as described in section 5224. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5241
  • Developmental disability: means a disability attributable to a mental or physical impairment or combination of mental and physical impairments that:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Direct producer-to-consumer transaction: means an exchange of food or food products directly between a food producer and a consumer by barter, trade or purchase on the property or premises owned, leased or rented by the food producer; at roadside stands, fundraisers, farmers' markets and community social events; or through buying clubs, deliveries or community-supported agriculture programs, herd-share agreements and other private arrangements. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 282
  • Director: means the Director of the Bureau of General Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1782
  • Director: means the Director of the Office of Policy Innovation and the Future established by section 3102. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 3101
  • Director: means the Executive Director of the Legislative Council. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 11111
  • Director: means the Director of the Maine State Housing Authority. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5246
  • Director: means the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1801
  • Dirigo Health insurance: means the program of health coverage provided under Title 24-A, section 6910. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2685
  • disabled: means mentally or physically incapacitated: [PL 1985, c. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17901
  • Disabled: means that the member is mentally or physically incapacitated under the following conditions:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17921
  • disabled: means mentally or physically incapacitated: [PL 1985, c. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 18501
  • Disabled: means that the member is mentally or physically incapacitated under the following conditions:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 18521
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Discrepancy: means an instance in which a holder of a license under subsection 2 has failed to comply with a requirement under this Part. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1333
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Disqualified person: means an individual or entity that for any reason is or becomes ineligible under this chapter to be issued shares by a professional corporation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 723
  • Distillery: means a person that engages in the activities under either paragraph A or B, or both:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Distributor: means any person engaged in the business of distributing or supplying motion pictures to exhibitors by rental, sale or licensing. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 1901
  • Distributor: means any person engaged in the sale and distribution of manufactured homes for resale. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9061
  • District: means one of the 8 districts of the department, including Aroostook District, composed of Aroostook County; Penquis District, composed of Penobscot County and Piscataquis County; Downeast District, composed of Washington County and Hancock County; Midcoast District, composed of Waldo County, Lincoln County, Knox County and Sagadahoc County; Central District, composed of Kennebec County and Somerset County; Western District, composed of Androscoggin County, Franklin County and Oxford County; Cumberland District, composed of Cumberland County; and York District, composed of York County, and the tribal district, composed of any lands belonging to the Indian tribes in the State and including any member of a tribe living outside of tribal lands. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 411
  • district: means a specified area within the corporate limits of a municipality that has been designated as provided under sections 5247 and 5250 to be developed under an affordable housing development program and financed under section 5250?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5246
  • District coordinating council for public health: means a representative districtwide body of local public health stakeholders working toward collaborative public health planning and coordination to ensure effectiveness and efficiencies in the public health system. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 411
  • District public health unit: means a unit of public health staff set up whenever possible in a district in department offices. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 411
  • Division: means the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Office of Employee Health and Wellness. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 286-M
  • Division: means the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Division of Licensing, Registration and Engineering. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
  • Documentary material: shall include the original or a copy of any book, record, report, memorandum, paper, communication, tabulation, map, chart, photograph, mechanical transcription or other tangible document or recording wherever situate. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 206
  • Dollar roll transaction: means 2 simultaneous transactions with settlement dates no more than 96 days apart so that in one transaction an insurer sells to a counter-party and in the other transaction the insurer is obligated to purchase from the same counter-party substantially similar securities of the following types:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Domestic animals: means cattle, equines, goats, sheep, swine, cats, dogs, domesticated cervids or other domesticated animals; large game as defined in section 1341, subsection 5; and poultry. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1751
  • Domestic entity: means an entity whose internal affairs are governed by the laws of this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Domestic institution: means an institution created or existing under the laws of the United States or any state, district or territory. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Domestic partner: means one of 2 unmarried adults who are domiciled together under long-term arrangements that evidence a commitment to remain responsible indefinitely for each other's welfare. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Domestic professional corporation: means a professional corporation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 723
  • Domestic relations order: means a judgment, decree or order, including approval of a property settlement agreement, that:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Domesticated bison: means the genus and species Bison bison. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1341
  • Domesticated boar: means a member of a species of Sus scrofa commonly known as the Eurasian boar or Wild Russian boar. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1341
  • Domicile: means the place where a person's true, fixed and permanent home is located. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Downtown: means the central business district of a community that serves as the center for socioeconomic interaction in the community and is characterized by a cohesive core of commercial and mixed-use buildings, often interspersed with civic, religious and residential buildings and public spaces, typically arranged along a main street and intersecting side streets, walkable and served by public infrastructure. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4366
  • Downtown: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Downtown: means the traditional central business district of a community that has served as the center of socioeconomic interaction in the community, characterized by a cohesive core of commercial and mixed-use buildings, often interspersed with civic, religious and residential buildings and public spaces, that are typically arranged along a main street and intersecting side streets and served by public infrastructure. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Downtown: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5903
  • Downtown improvement: includes facade, utility relocation or extension, historic preservation and parking and road improvement; elevator, sprinkler system and traffic control devices installation; purchase of development rights for a park or open space and construction of park and open space amenities; and public toilet, streetscape, sidewalk and curb installation or upgrade. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5903
  • Downtown tax increment financing district: means a tax increment financing district described in a downtown redevelopment plan that is consistent with the downtown criteria established pursuant to rules of the department. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Driver: means a person who drives or controls the animal that is pulling in a pulling event. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 81
  • Drowning set: means a trap set for wild animals that is:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Drug treatment center: means a facility as defined in Title 22, section 8001, which provides substance use disorder treatment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 9701
  • Dwelling: means any building used as a permanent residence or place of domicile. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Dwelling unit: means any part of a structure which, through sale or lease, is intended for human habitation, including single-family and multifamily housing, condominiums, apartments and time-share units. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4401
  • Earnable compensation: includes :
    (1) Workers' compensation benefits;
    (2) Maintenance, if any;
    (3) Any money paid by an employer to a 3rd party under a tax sheltered annuity contract or a deferred compensation plan for the future benefit of an employee provided that the money is not derived from amounts excluded from earnable compensation by paragraph B; and
    (4) Pick-up contributions. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Economic development incentive: means federal and state statutorily defined programs that receive state funds, dedicated revenue funds and tax expenditures as defined by section 1666 whose purposes are to create, attract or retain business entities related to business development in the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13070-J
  • Economic development investments: means commitments of state funds, dedicated revenue funds and tax expenditures as defined by section 1666 for research and development activities and economic development incentive programs. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13070-J
  • Economic development proposal: means proposed legislation that establishes a new program or that expands an existing program that:
    (1) Is intended to encourage significant business expansion or retention in the State; and
    (2) Contains a tax expenditure, as defined in section 1666, or a budget expenditure with a cost that is estimated to exceed $100,000 per year. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13070-J
  • Eel: means a member of the species Anguilla rostrata in that stage of its life cycle when it is 9 inches or more in length. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Eel pot: means a cylindrical or rectangular trap with funnels that is baited and used to harvest eels. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Elderly: means a person or family as defined in the United States Housing Act of 1937, Public Law 75-412, 50 Stat. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4702
  • Elderly low-cost drug program: means the elderly low-cost drug program provided under section 254-D. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2685
  • Electric assistance: means assistance as established by the commission pursuant to Title 35?A, section 3214 and rules adopted pursuant to that section, based on an eligible household's income level and electricity usage and paid to an electric utility on behalf of an eligible household. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4961
  • Electric utility: means a transmission and distribution utility as defined in Title 35?A, section 102, subsection 20?B. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4961
  • Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) Source: OCC
  • Elementary school: means that portion of a school that provides instruction in any combination of kindergarten through grade 8. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1
  • Eligible entity: means a domestic or foreign unincorporated entity or a domestic or foreign nonprofit corporation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13-C Sec. 1101
  • Eligible expenses and losses: means expenses and losses resulting from a personal injury sustained by an individual as a direct result of a crime specified in subsection 3 and may include medical and medically related expenses, psychological or mental health counseling expenses, lost wages, funeral, burial and other homicide-related expenses and travel expenses and loss of income of a claimant or family member for providing or obtaining care for the personal injury of a minor or incapacitated victim. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 3360
  • Eligible household: means a household that is eligible to receive fuel assistance through the Maine State Housing Authority pursuant to section 4722, subsection 1, paragraph W; section 4741, subsection 15; and subchapter XIII and rules adopted pursuant to these laws. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4961
  • Eligible interests: means interests and memberships. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13-C Sec. 1101
  • Eligible marketing cooperative: means an association of milk producers organized to negotiate producer prices higher than the minimum producer prices established pursuant to the northeast marketing area milk marketing order and that the commissioner has determined will not, through its operation, evade, impair or undermine the purposes of this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • Eligible register: means any book or other type of record or list on which the names of persons are placed who are qualified for the specific job classification for which the register is created. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 7032
  • Eligible student: means any resident of the State between the ages of 5 and 20 years who is otherwise eligible for public schooling under this Title. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 9701
  • Elver: means a member of the species Anguilla rostrata in that stage of its life cycle when it is less than 9 inches in length. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Emergency: refers to a situation in which:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3472
  • Emergency management: means the coordination and implementation of an organized effort to mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from a disaster. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 451
  • emergency medical services line personnel: means persons who are career employees employed full-time by a public sector agency or employer and whose primary responsibility is to provide emergency medical services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 286-M
  • Emergency services: means assistance given to one or more persons or areas, when there is imminent danger of damage or injury to property or personal health and safety, and includes ambulance services, emergency management agency services and rescue services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 451
  • Emergency services: refers to those services necessary to avoid serious harm. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3472
  • Emergency use: means a use resulting from unforeseen circumstances that calls for immediate action to protect persons or property. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1872
  • Employee: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Employee: means any person whether appointed, elected or under contract, providing services for the State, county, municipality or other political subdivision, for which compensation is paid. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 891
  • employee: includes an officer of a political subdivision of the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19002
  • Employee: means any person holding a position subject to appointment by an appointing authority. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 7032
  • Employee cooperative: means a corporation which has duly elected to be governed by this subchapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1972
  • Employee from the executive branch in the unclassified service: means all executive branch employees listed in section 931, but does not include any elective or constitutional officers listed in that section or their direct appointees. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 7032
  • Employee of this State: means an employee in the classified or unclassified service as defined in chapters 71 and 372. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 20
  • employer of the person exposed: include a self-employed person who is exposed to the potentially infectious blood or other body fluids of another person. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19201
  • employment: means any service performed by an employee in the employ of any political subdivision of the State, for such employer, except service which in the absence of an agreement entered into under this chapter would constitute "employment" as defined in the Social Security Act; or service which under the Social Security Act may not be included in an agreement between the State and the Federal Security Administrator entered into under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19002
  • Employment position: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17921
  • Employment position: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 18521
  • Employment tax increment: means that level of state income withholding taxes attributed to employees employed within the base area, adjusted pursuant to section 13080?R. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13080-P
  • Endangered species: means a species of fish or wildlife that has been determined by the commissioner to be in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range and that is listed as a state endangered species under section 12803, subsection 3. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Enrollee: means a county or municipal law enforcement officer or municipal firefighter who has enrolled in the program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 286-M
  • Enterprise fund: means the Maine Retirement Savings Program Enterprise Fund established in section 178. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 171
  • Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
  • Entity: means a person that has a separate legal existence or has the power to acquire an interest in real property in its own name other than:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Equipment purchases: means the purchase of new or updated equipment and any capital improvements necessary to use the new or updated equipment by career and technical education centers or career and technical education regions. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5903
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • ERISA: means the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, 29 United States Code § 1001 et seq. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 171
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Essential public health services: means core public health functions identified by a national public health performance standards program, a national federally recognized review board or a national federally recognized review board for Indian health that help provide the guiding framework for the work and accreditation of public health systems or municipal health departments. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 411
  • Estates: shall be construed to mean both real estate and personal property. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 501
  • Event: means a pulling competition or livestock exhibition. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 81
  • Executive body: means the official or body of officials who, in their official capacity, have the general powers and duties of administering, supervising and managing the affairs of an organization or governmental unit. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Exotic: means of foreign nature or character, not native. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Expenditure minimum for annual operating costs: means , for services commenced after October 1, 1998, $400,000 for the 3rd fiscal year, including a partial first year. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Experiential tourism: means tourism that allows individuals to be active participants in outdoor recreational activities including but not limited to: hiking, camping, birding and other wildlife viewing, nature photography, visits to historical and cultural sites and museums, nature tourism, adventure tourism and ecotourism. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • Exploitation: means the illegal or improper use of an individual or the individual's resources for another's profit or advantage. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19503
  • facility: includes a pharmacy licensed pursuant to Title 32. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19201
  • Facility: includes any facility providing services, supports and other assistance or residential services or treatment that operates without a license that is required by law, ordinance or rule. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19503
  • fair: means an exhibition that is designed to promote education and encourage improvement in agriculture and that includes, but is not limited to, the following:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 81
  • Fair Fund: means the fund established in section 85. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 81
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • Fair share fee: means a fee deducted by a dealer or processor from a producer who is not an association member. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1091-A
  • Family farm corporation: means a corporation founded for the purpose of farming and the ownership of agricultural land; the majority of the voting stock must be held by, and a majority of the shareholders must be, persons or the spouses of persons related to each other within the 3rd degree of kindred and at least one of the related persons must reside on or actively operate the farm; and none of the shareholders may be a corporation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 32
  • Family or household member: means : the parent, stepparent, sibling, grandparent, spouse, child or stepchild of a victim or a person who bears an equally significant relationship to the victim; or a person who at the time or discovery of the crime was living in the household of the victim or who previously had lived in the household of the victim for a period of not less than 2 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 3360
  • Family support team: means a specialized team of professionals evaluating children who are suspected victims of child abuse and neglect as defined in section 4002, subsection 1. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4092
  • Farm: means the land, plants, animals, buildings, structures, ponds and machinery used in the commercial production of agricultural products. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 152
  • Farm operation: means a condition or activity that occurs on a farm in connection with the commercial production of agricultural products and includes, but is not limited to, operations giving rise to noise, odors, dust, insects and fumes; operation of machinery and irrigation pumps; disposal of manure; agricultural support services; and the employment and use of labor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 152
  • Farm partnership: means an association of 2 or more individuals formed for the purpose of farming. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 32
  • Farm product: means those plants and animals useful to humans and includes, but is not limited to, forages and sod crops, grains and food crops, dairy products, poultry and poultry products, bees, livestock and livestock products and fruits, berries, vegetables, flowers, seeds, grasses, Christmas trees and other similar products. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 52
  • Farm product or raw product: shall mean potatoes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 3322
  • Farm support arrangement: means an arrangement that meets requirements established by the department by rule under which:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 60
  • Farm support payments: means annual payments by a municipality during the term of a qualified easement:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 60
  • Farmland: means a parcel consisting of 5 or more acres of land that is:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4401
  • Farmland: means any tract or tracts of land used for commercial farming:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 52
  • Fault: means wrongful act, omission, breach or default. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 2-1103
  • Federal Government: means the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States of America. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001
  • Federal grant application: shall mean any request or proposal for financial assistance made by a state agency or by an employee of such an agency acting in his official capacity to the United States Government, whether for a loan, grant, subsidy, augmentation, advance, reimbursement, or any other form where such financial assistance will be expended by the state agency or employee acting in his official capacity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1706
  • Federal Insurance Contributions Act: means the Federal Internal Revenue Code, chapter 9, subchapter A, as such Code has been and may from time to time be amended. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19002
  • Federal manufactured home construction and safety standard: means the standard for the construction, design and performance of a manufactured home that meets the needs of the public including the need for quality, durability and safety and that has been duly adopted by the Federal Government pursuant to the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, as amended by the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000, 42 United States Code § 5401, et seq. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9002
  • Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. Source: OCC
  • Federal Security Administrator: includes any individual to whom the Federal Security Administrator has delegated any of his functions under the Social Security Act with respect to coverage under such Act of employees of states and their political subdivisions. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19002
  • Federal waters: means all waters that are not internal waters and are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: means a condition whose effects include having facial characteristics, growth restriction, central nervous system abnormalities or other characteristics consistent with prenatal alcohol exposure identified in a child from birth to 12 months of age. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Filing entity: means an entity that is created by the filing of a public organic document. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Finance charge: The total cost of credit a customer must pay on a consumer loan, including interest. The Truth in Lending Act requires disclosure of the finance charge. Source: OCC
  • Finance lease: means a lease with respect to which:
    (i) The lessor does not select, manufacture or supply the goods;
    (ii) The lessor acquires the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods in connection with the lease; and
    (iii) One of the following occurs:
    (A) The lessee receives a copy of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods before signing the lease contract;
    (B) The lessee's approval of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods is a condition to effectiveness of the lease contract;
    (C) The lessee, before signing the lease contract, receives an accurate and complete statement designating the promises and warranties, and any disclaimers of warranties, limitations or modifications of remedies, or liquidated damages, including those of a third party, such as the manufacturer of the goods, provided to the lessor by the person supplying the goods in connection with or as part of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods; or
    (D) If the lease is not a consumer lease, the lessor, before the lessee signs the lease contract, informs the lessee in writing: of the identity of the person supplying the goods to the lessor, unless the lessee has selected that person and directed the lessor to acquire the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods from that person; that the lessee is entitled under this Article to the promises and warranties, including those of any third party, provided to the lessor by the person supplying the goods in connection with or as part of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods; and that the lessee may communicate with the person supplying the goods to the lessor and receive an accurate and complete statement of those promises and warranties, including any disclaimers and limitations of them or of remedies. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 2-1103
  • Financial exploitation: means the use of deception, intimidation, undue influence, force or other unlawful means to obtain control over the property of a dependent adult for another's profit or advantage. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3472
  • Financial institution: means any bank or trust company, savings bank, savings and loan association, industrial bank, national banking association, federal savings and loan association, mortgage banker, credit union or other such institution authorized to do business in the State, or a government agency which customarily provides service or otherwise aids in the financing of mortgage loans. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4702
  • Financial interest: means any voting or nonvoting security, partnership interest whether limited or general, trust interest, joint venture interest or any other beneficial interest in any form of business association. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 12901
  • Financial plan: means a statement of the project costs and sources of revenue required to accomplish the development program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Financial plan: means a statement of the project costs and sources of revenue required to accomplish the development program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5241
  • Financial plan: means a statement of the project costs and sources of revenue required to accomplish the affordable housing development program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5246
  • Financial services: means services provided by an insurance company subject to taxation under Title 36, chapter 357; a captive insurance company formed or licensed under Title 24?A, chapter 83; a financial institution subject to taxation under Title 36, chapter 819; or a mutual fund service provider. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • Financing costs: means all costs of issuance, capitalized interest, capitalized operating expenses and debt service reserves, fees and costs of any ancillary obligation or other fees, expenses and costs related to issuing, securing and marketing liquor operation revenue bonds. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 6052
  • Finished product: shall mean any manufactured or processed form of potatoes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 3322
  • Finished wildlife products: means tanned animal hides and finished taxidermy mounts, including full or partial body mounts or antlers mounted on a plaque. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Firearm: means any instrument used in the propulsion of pellets, shot, shells or bullets by action of gunpowder, compressed air or gas exploded or released within it. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Fiscal agent: means an incorporated community organization, agency or institution designated by a community-based AIDS organization and authorized by the bureau to receive and distribute grants to that community-based AIDS organization. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19251
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Fish: means a cold-blooded, completely aquatic vertebrate characteristically having gills, fins and an elongated streamlined body usually covered with scales and includes any physical part of a fish. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Fisheries and wildlife or marine resources project: means a project approved by the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife or the Department of Marine Resources undertaken for the purpose of improving public access to freshwater or saltwater fisheries and wildlife resources of the State for fishing, hunting, research or observation or for conservation or improvement of the freshwater or saltwater fisheries and wildlife resources of the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Fishery products: includes fish, crustaceans, mollusks and marine products for human consumption. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 2003
  • Fishing derby: means an organized fishing event conducted on inland waters during which contestants compete for cash awards or other prizes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Fishway: means an artificial device, including fish elevators, fish locks and fish ladders, used to enable fish to migrate upstream past dams, waterfalls, rapids or other obstacles. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Fixed charges: includes interest on funded and unfunded debt and amortization of debt discount, but in the case of a bank or trust company, interest paid by that institution upon any deposit or any certificate or other evidence of a deposit may not be deemed a fixed charge of such an institution. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1110
  • Flexible hours employment: means employment where the full-time employees of a specific work unit and shift are authorized to set different working hours around a basic core of hours during which all full-time unit employees are to be at work. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 902
  • Floor: means an agreement obligating the seller to make payments to the buyer in which each payment is based on the amount by which a predetermined number, sometimes called the "floor rate" or "price" exceeds a reference price, level, performance or value of one or more underlying interests. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Fly: means a single, pointed hook dressed with feathers, hair, thread, tinsel or any similar material to which no additional hook, spinner, spoon or similar device is added. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Fly-fishing: means casting upon water and retrieving in a manner in which the weight of the fly line propels the fly. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Food or food products: means food or food products that are grown, produced, processed or prepared for human consumption, including, but not limited to, vegetables, fruit, milk or milk products, meat or meat products, poultry or poultry products, fish or fish products, seafood or seafood products, cider or juice, acidified foods or canned fruits or vegetables. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 282
  • Food system: means all processes, infrastructure and persons involved in feeding a population, including growing, harvesting, collecting, processing, manufacturing, packaging, transporting, marketing, selling, consuming and disposing of food and food-related items in the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 320-A
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Foreign entity: means an entity other than a domestic entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • foreign investment practice: means an investment or investment practice in a foreign jurisdiction, an investment practice with a person domiciled in a foreign jurisdiction or an investment in a person, real estate or asset domiciled in a foreign jurisdiction. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Foreign jurisdiction: means a jurisdiction other than the United States, any state or any political subdivision of the United States or any state. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Foreign professional corporation: means a corporation or association for profit incorporated for the purpose of rendering professional services under law other than the law of this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 723
  • Foreign qualification document: means an application for a certificate of authority or other foreign qualification filing with the Secretary of State by a foreign entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Forest management plan: means a site-specific document signed by a professional forester outlining proposed activities to ensure compliance with performance standards and regeneration requirements established pursuant to this subchapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 8868
  • Forest products: means logs, pulpwood, veneer, bolt wood, wood chips, stud wood, poles, pilings, biomass fuel wood, fuel wood, bark or other products commonly known as forest products, but does not include Christmas trees, maple syrup, nursery products used for ornamental purposes, wreaths, bough material, cones or other seed crops. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 8881
  • Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. Source: OCC
  • Forward: means an agreement other than a future to make or take delivery in the future of one or more underlying interests, or effect a cash settlement based on the actual or expected price, level, performance or value of such underlying interests. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Foster parent: means a person whose home is licensed by the department as a family foster home as defined in section 8101, subsection 3 and with whom the child lives pursuant to a court order or agreement with the department. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Freshwater marshes and bogs: means naturally occurring open areas with saturated soils or peat, often associated with standing water and dominated by low herbaceous vegetation, grasses, weeds and shrubs and including wetlands, as shown on the Freshwater Wetlands Map Series, Division of Geology, Natural Areas and Coastal Resources, Maine Geological Survey, or zoned as a Wetland Protection Subdistrict, P-WL, by the Maine Land Use Planning Commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Freshwater wetland: means freshwater swamps, marshes, bogs and similar areas which are:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4401
  • Fuel assistance: means assistance paid to eligible households or to fuel vendors on behalf of an eligible household or directly to eligible tenants who pay heating costs as an undesignated portion of rent. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4991
  • Full meal: means a meal consisting of a diversified selection of food that ordinarily cannot be consumed without the use of tableware and that cannot be conveniently consumed while standing or walking. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Full-time deputy: means a deputy who is compensated under section 386, subsection 1, and who is employed in county law enforcement for at least 40 hours a week. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 351
  • Full-time student: means a person who meets the requirements for a full-time student set out in rules adopted by the board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Fully marketable form: means a municipal security duly executed and accompanied by an approving legal opinion of a bond counsel of recognized standing in the field of municipal law whose opinions are generally accepted by purchasers of municipal bonds, provided that the municipal security so executed need not be printed or lithographed nor be in more than one denomination. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5903
  • Fund: means the Loring Job Increment Financing Fund. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13080-P
  • Fund: means the Fund To Address PFAS Contamination established under subsection 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 320-K
  • Fund: means the Potato Marketing Improvement Fund established in Title 10, section 1023?N. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 970
  • Fund: means the Firefighters and Law Enforcement Officers Health Insurance Program Fund established in subsection 7. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 286-M
  • Fund: means the Victims' Property Compensation Fund established in subsection 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 3360-S
  • fund: means the Housing Opportunities for Maine Fund created by subsection 1. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4853
  • Fund: means the Maine Energy, Housing and Economic Recovery Fund established in section 4863. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4861
  • Fund: means the Electric Assistance Program Fund established in section 4962. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4961
  • Fund: means the Liquor Operation Revenue Fund established in section 6054. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 6052
  • Fund: means the Maine Microenterprise Initiative Fund established in section 13063?K. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13063-J
  • Fund for a Healthy Maine: whenever used in this chapter , mean the Other Special Revenue account within the Department of Administrative and Financial Services established pursuant to Title 22, section 1511. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1661
  • Funded debt: means an obligation for the payment of which some fund is set aside. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001
  • Future: means an agreement traded on a futures exchange to make or take delivery of or effect a cash settlement based on the actual or expected price, level, performance or value of one or more underlying interests. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Futures exchange: means a qualified foreign exchange or an exchange, contract market or board of trade on which trading in futures is conducted that has been authorized for futures trading in the United States by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission or its successor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • General fund: means the fund created or established as provided in section 6007. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5903
  • General Fund revenue shortfall: means the amount by which the General Fund appropriation limitation established by section 1534 exceeds baseline General Fund revenue and other available resources in each state fiscal year. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1531
  • Generally accepted accounting principles: means accounting principles approved by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants or a successor organization. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Genetic characteristic: means any inherited gene or chromosome, or alteration of a gene or chromosome, that is scientifically or medically believed to predispose an individual to a disease, disorder or syndrome or to be associated with a statistically significant increased risk of development of a disease, disorder or syndrome. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19301
  • Genetic information: means the information concerning genes, gene products or inherited characteristics that may be obtained from an individual or family member. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19301
  • Genetic test: means a test for determining the presence or absence of an inherited genetic characteristic in an individual, including tests of nucleic acids such as deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, ribonucleic acid, or RNA, or mitochondrial DNA, and tests of chromosomes or proteins in order to identify a predisposing genetic characteristic. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19301
  • Ginseng: means any part of the plant known as Wild American Ginseng (Panax quinquefolius 1). See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2221
  • Golf course: means a commercially operated facility, whether publicly or privately owned, that offers golfing facilities to the public for a fee, including a regulation-size golf course of no fewer than 9 holes and an average total of not less than 1,200 yards per 9 holes, that has a value of not less than $100,000 and that has adequate facilities for the sale and consumption of liquor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract including mobile homes, or are fixtures (section 2?1309), but the term does not include money, documents, instruments, accounts, chattel paper, general intangibles or minerals or the like, including oil and gas, before extraction. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 2-1103
  • Governance interest: means the right under the organic law or organic rules of an entity, other than as a governor, agent, assignee or proxy, to:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Governing body: means , for a municipality, the municipal legislative body as defined by Title 30?A, section 2001 or, for a county, the board of county commissioners. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13080-A
  • Governmental unit: means any county, municipality, school administrative district, community school district, public waste disposal corporation as authorized under Title 38, section 1304?B or other quasi-municipal corporation within the State, including any corporation owned entirely by a municipality and providing water, sewer or electric service or performing other essential governmental functions. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5903
  • Governor: means a person by or under whose authority the powers of an entity are exercised and under whose direction the business and affairs of the entity are managed pursuant to the organic law and organic rules of the entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Governor-elect: whenever used in this chapter and chapter 145, shall be held to mean the candidate most recently elected to the office of Governor of the State of Maine in the November election for choice of Governor, or his successor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1661
  • Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. Source: Federal Reserve
  • Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
  • Grandparent: means the parent of a child's parent. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
  • Grantee: means the person to whom a freehold estate or interest in land is conveyed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Grantor: means the person who conveys a freehold estate or interest in land. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Greenhouse: means a structure covered with glass, plastic, fiberglass or other transparent material in which plants are cultivated in a controlled environment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2211
  • Gross employment tax increment: means that level of state income withholding taxes attributed to employees employed within the base area that is greater than the base level of employment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13080-P
  • Gross floor area: means the aggregate of the areas of each floor of a building or structure, including accessory structures, measured between the exterior faces of the exterior walls or limits of the building or structure at the level of each floor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4366
  • Gross state tax increment: means the difference, if any, between the sales and income tax revenues attributable to the state tax increment financing district for the current period and the sales and income tax revenues attributable to the state tax increment financing district for the base period. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5241
  • group health insurance plan: means any employer-sponsored group health insurance plan, whether self-insured or fully insured, that provides coverage to eligible employees, retirees and their dependents. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 286-M
  • Grower licensee: means a person licensed pursuant to subsection 4. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2231
  • Growth area: means an area that is designated in a municipality's or multimunicipal region's comprehensive plan as suitable for orderly residential, commercial or industrial development, or any combinations of those types of development, and into which most development projected over 10 years is directed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Growth management program: means a document containing the components described in section 4326, including the implementation program, that is consistent with the goals and guidelines established by subchapter II and that regulates land use beyond that required by Title 38, chapter 3, subchapter I, article 2?B. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Growth-related capital investment: means investment by the State in only the following projects, even if privately owned, whether using state, federal or other public funds and whether in the form of a purchase, lease, grant, loan, loan guarantee, credit, tax credit or other financial assistance:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. Source: OCC
  • Guide: means a person who receives any form of remuneration for that person's services in accompanying or assisting a person in the fields or forests or on the waters or ice within the jurisdiction of the State while hunting, fishing, trapping, boating, snowmobiling, using an all-terrain vehicle or camping at a primitive camping area. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
  • Harass: means an intentional or negligent act or omission that creates the likelihood of injury to wildlife by annoying it to such an extent as to significantly disrupt normal behavioral patterns. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Harassment: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 4651
  • Harvest operation: means a harvest of forest products on land in a single municipality or township. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 8881
  • Harvester: means a person, firm, company, corporation or other legal entity which harvests or contracts to harvest a forest product. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 8881
  • health care facility: means the establishment, erection, building, purchase or other acquisition of a health care facility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Health care provider: means an appropriately licensed, certified or registered provider of mental or physical health care, in either the public or private sector. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Health care provider: means any appropriately licensed, certified or registered provider of mental or physical health care, either in the public or private sector or any business establishment providing health care services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19201
  • Health care setting: means any location where there is provision of preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitative, maintenance or palliative care, services, procedures or counseling, including emergency services performed in the field, and appropriate assistance with disease or symptom management and maintenance that affects an individual's physical, mental or behavioral condition, including the process of banking blood, sperm, organs or any other tissue. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19201
  • Health maintenance organization: means a public or private organization that:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Health need: means a situation or a condition of a person, expressed in health outcome measures such as mortality, morbidity or disability, that is considered undesirable and is likely to exist in the future. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Health plan: means a health plan providing prescription drug coverage as authorized under the federal Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, Public Law 108-173. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2685
  • Health planning: means data assembly and analysis, goal determination and the formulation of action recommendations regarding health services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Health risk assessment: means a customized process by which an individual confidentially responds to questions and receives a feedback report to help that individual understand the individual's personal risks of developing preventable health problems, know what preventive actions the individual can take and learn what local and state resources are available to help the individual take these actions. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 411
  • Health services: includes alcohol or drug dependence, substance use disorder and mental health services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Health status: means patient or population measures, or both, of good and poor health practices, rates of death and disease, both chronic and infectious, and the prevalence of symptoms or conditions, or both, of illness and wellness. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Healthy Maine Partnerships: means a statewide system of comprehensive community health coalitions that meet the standards for department funding that is established under section 412, including the tribal district. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 411
  • heat-treated: means processed by heating every particle of milk to a temperature of 145 degrees Fahrenheit for at least 30 minutes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2900
  • Hedging transaction: means a derivative transaction that is entered into and maintained to reduce:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Hemp: includes agricultural commodities and products derived from hemp and topical or ingestible consumer products, including food, food additives and food products derived from hemp, which in their final forms contain a delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2231
  • Herbicide: means a substance or mixture of substances used to destroy, dessicate, defoliate or prevent the growth of unwanted vegetation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1872
  • High-yield obligations: means obligations that are neither investment grade nor medium grade obligations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1110
  • High-yield obligations: means obligations that are neither investment grade nor medium grade obligations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • highly rated: means an investment rated "P-1" by Moody's Investors Service, Inc. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Highway: means any public way. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3752
  • Historic site: means any area of land owned, leased or otherwise controlled by the State, with or without buildings, improvements or other structures, that has been classified by the director for public use wholly or primarily because of its historical, archaeological or scientific interest or value. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1801
  • HIV: means the human immunodeficiency virus, identified as the causative agent of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or AIDS. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19201
  • HIV antigen: means the specific immune-recognizable marker proteins of HIV. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19201
  • HIV infection: means the state wherein HIV has invaded the body and is being actively harbored by the body. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19201
  • HIV infection status: means the results of an HIV test. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19201
  • HIV test: means a test for the presence of an antibody to HIV or a test for an HIV antigen or other diagnostic determinants specific for HIV infection. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19201
  • Home improvement note: means an interest bearing obligation, secured in whole or in part by a mortgage, insurance or otherwise as may be agreed upon by the Maine State Housing Authority from time to time, made to improve or rehabilitate single-family or multi-unit residential housing in the State, including, without limitation, the replacement, removal or rehabilitation of malfunctioning waste water treatment systems. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4702
  • Home rule authority: means the powers granted to municipalities under chapter 111; section 3001; and the Constitution of Maine, Article VIII, Part Second. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001
  • Homeless: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5002
  • Homeless youth: means a person 21 years of age or younger who is unaccompanied by a parent or guardian and is without shelter where appropriate care and supervision are available, whose parent or legal guardian is unable or unwilling to provide shelter and care or who lacks a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4099-D
  • Hook: means a single fishhook constructed with one, 2 or 3 points. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Hospital: means an institution that primarily provides to inpatients, by or under the supervision of physicians, diagnostic services and therapeutic services for medical diagnosis, treatment and care of injured, disabled or sick persons or rehabilitation services for the rehabilitation of injured, disabled or sick persons. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Hospital swing bed: means an acute care bed licensed by the Office of MaineCare Services, Division of Licensing and Regulatory Services for the use also as a nursing care bed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Hotel: means a place where the public obtains sleeping accommodations for consideration and where food is offered for sale to the public, whether or not under one roof. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Hotel guest: means a person whose name and address are registered on a registry maintained by a hotel and who is the bona fide occupant of a room of the hotel. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Housing: includes , but is not limited to, any "project" or "housing project" as defined in section 4702, subsection 14. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4933
  • housing authority: means any of the public corporations created or authorized to be created by this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4702
  • Housing Mortgage Insurance Fund: means the fund established under section 4934?A by the Maine State Housing Authority for the purpose of providing insurance for the payment of mortgage loans for housing in the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4933
  • Housing Mortgage Insurance Program: means any program of providing insurance for the payment of mortgage loans for housing in the State established by the Maine State Housing Authority. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4933
  • Human trafficking offense: includes :
    (1) Aggravated sex trafficking and sex trafficking under Title 17?A, sections 852 and 853, respectively, and criminal forced labor and aggravated criminal forced labor under Title 17?A, sections 304 and 305, respectively; and
    (2) Except as provided in subparagraph (1), all offenses in Title 17?A, chapters 11, 12 and 13 if accompanied by the destruction, concealment, removal, confiscation or possession of any actual or purported passport or other immigration document or other actual or purported government identification document of the other person or done using any scheme, plan or pattern intended to cause the other person to believe that if that person does not perform certain labor or services, including prostitution, that the person or a 3rd person will be subject to a harm to their health, safety or immigration status. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 4701
  • hunt: means to pursue, catch, take, kill or harvest wild animals or wild birds or to attempt to catch, take, kill or harvest wild animals or wild birds. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Hunter orange: means a daylight fluorescent orange color with a dominant wave length between 595 and 605 nanometers, excitation purity not less than 85% and luminance factor of not less than 40%. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Hunting equipment: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Ice-fishing shack: means a temporary structure used for ice fishing on frozen inland waters. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Impact fee: means a charge or assessment imposed by a municipality against a new development to fund or recoup a portion of the cost of new, expanded or replacement infrastructure facilities necessitated by and attributable at least in part to the new development. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Impact fee ordinance: means an ordinance that establishes the applicability, formula and means by which impact fees are assessed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.
  • Implementation program: means that component of a local growth management program that begins after the adoption of a comprehensive plan and that includes the full range of municipal policy-making powers, including spending and borrowing powers, as well as the powers to adopt or implement ordinances, codes, rules or other land use regulations, tools or mechanisms that carry out the purposes and general policy statements and strategies of the comprehensive plan in a manner consistent with the goals and guidelines of subchapter 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Improper invoice: means an invoice which is:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1552
  • In forma pauperis: In the manner of a pauper. Permission given to a person to sue without payment of court fees on claim of indigence or poverty.
  • Income generation transaction: means a derivative transaction that is entered into to generate income. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Incompatible use: means the development or use of abutting land for a well, drinking water spring or water supply intake point when that use is initiated on abutting land that is within 50 feet of farmland after that farmland has been registered under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 52
  • Increased assessed value: means the valuation amount by which the current assessed value of a tax increment financing district exceeds the original assessed value of the district. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Increased assessed value: means the valuation amount by which the current assessed value of an affordable housing development district exceeds the original assessed value of the district. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5246
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Indian Housing Authority: means any housing authority created by the Maine Indian Housing law. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4933
  • Indian Housing Mortgage Insurance Committee: means a committee consisting of:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4933
  • Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
  • Individual retirement account: means an individual retirement account that is in compliance with the United States Internal Revenue Code. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 891
  • Indoor facility: means a building, greenhouse, cold frame, hoop house, high tunnel, floating row cover or other agricultural or horticultural method of extending the growing season by enclosing the growing area. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2231
  • Infant: means a person who has not attained the age of 18 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Informed consent: means consent that is:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19201
  • Infrastructure: means property, equipment, networks and supporting services associated with the production, harvesting, processing, manufacturing, storage, packaging, transporting, marketing, sales and disposal of food. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 320-A
  • Inhabitant: means a person having an established residence in a place. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Inherent risks of agritourism activity: means those dangers or conditions that are an integral part of an agritourism activity, including but not limited to:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 251
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Inland waters: means all waters within the State above the rise and fall of the tide and wholly or partially within the territorial limits of the State, except private ponds as defined in subsection 51. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Inspection agency: means an approved person or organization, public or private, determined by the board to be qualified by reason of facilities, personnel and demonstrated ability and independence of judgment to provide for inspection and approval of the design, construction or installation of manufactured housing in compliance with the standards and the rules adopted in accordance with this Act. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9002
  • Installation: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9002
  • Installer: means a person engaged in the installation or servicing of state-certified manufactured housing. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9002
  • Institution: means a corporation, a joint-stock association, a business trust, a business partnership, a business joint venture or any other similar entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1110
  • Institution: means a corporation, joint-stock association, business trust, business partnership, business joint venture or any other similar entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Integrated operation: means a person who is a dealer and who also sells at retail the milk that the person handles for sale, shipment, storage or processing within the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2951
  • Integrated pest management: means the selection, integration and implementation of pest damage prevention and control based on predicted socioeconomic and ecological consequences, including:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2401
  • Intelligence: means the collection, storage, retrieval, analysis and use of information about persons known to be repeatedly violating the criminal law in a manner difficult to detect as part of a covertly planned, deliberate or organized attempt to undertake criminal acts. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 451
  • Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
  • Interest: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Interest holder: means a direct holder of an interest. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Interest in land: means all forms of direct or indirect ownership of land, except:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 32
  • Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
  • Internal Revenue Code: means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 171
  • Internal waters: means waters under the exclusive jurisdiction of the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Interstate System: means those portions of the Maine Turnpike and the state highway system incorporated in the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, as officially designated by the Department of Transportation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3752
  • Intertidal zone: means the shores, flats or other land between the high and mean low water mark. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 6071-A
  • Invasive aquatic plant: means a species of aquatic plant described in Title 38, section 410?N. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Investigation: means the inquiry about, or examination or observation of, persons or objects to gather evidence concerning unlawful acts or the apprehension of wrongdoers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 451
  • Investment grade obligation: means an obligation that at the time of acquisition by the insurer is rated "1" or "2" by the Securities Valuation Office of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Investment practices: means transactions of the types described in section 1153, subsection 4 and section 1160, subsection 6. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Investment trust fund: means the Retiree Health Insurance Post-employment Benefits Investment Trust Fund established in section 17432. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17431
  • Investment trust fund agreement: means the trust agreement to be entered into by the State and the trustees of the investment trust fund. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17431
  • Invitation to bid: means a written solicitation or invitation by a distributor to one or more exhibitors to bid for the right to exhibit a motion picture. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 1901
  • IRA: means a traditional IRA or Roth IRA. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 171
  • Irrevocable trust: A trust arrangement that cannot be revoked, rescinded, or repealed by the grantor.
  • Jacklight: means any artificial light used while hunting, except lights used and permitted under rules regarding raccoons under the authority of section 10104, subsection 1. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Jail: means a specially constructed or modified facility designated by law or regularly used for detention for a period of up to 12 months. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 451
  • jeopardy: means serious abuse or neglect, as evidenced by:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
  • Job-sharing employment: means employment where 2 or more persons share one position. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 902
  • Joint meeting: An occasion, often ceremonial, when the House and Senate each adopt a unanimous consent agreement
  • Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
  • Judgement: The official decision of a court finally determining the respective rights and claims of the parties to a suit.
  • Junkyard: means a yard, field or other outside area used to store, dismantle or otherwise handle:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3752
  • Juror: A person who is on the jury.
  • Juvenile services: means the personnel, procedures and services provided to deal with delinquents or criminal offenders under 18 years of age. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 451
  • key participant: means a person who, as determined by the commissioner by rule, has a direct or indirect financial interest in an entity producing hemp, such as an owner or partner in a partnership. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2231
  • Labeler: means an entity or person that receives prescription drugs from a manufacturer or wholesaler and repackages those drugs for later retail sale and that has a labeler code from the federal Food and Drug Administration under 21 Code of Federal Regulations, 207. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2681
  • Labeler: means an entity or person that receives prescription drugs from a manufacturer or wholesaler and repackages those drugs for later retail sale and that has a labeler code from the federal Food and Drug Administration under 21 Code of Federal Regulations, 207. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2697
  • Labor market average weekly wage: means the average weekly wage as published by the Department of Labor for the labor market or markets in which potential qualified Pine Tree Development Zone employees are located for the 12 most recently reported months preceding the date of application. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • Labor market unemployment rate: means the average unemployment rate as published by the Department of Labor for the labor market or markets in which potential qualified Pine Tree Development Zone employees are located for the 12 most recently reported months preceding the date of application. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • Laboratory services: means those services which concern the testing or analyzing of physical evidence, by chemical or physical science methods and techniques, in order to determine its properties, composition, attributes or other information required for law enforcement purposes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 451
  • Lamprey eel: means the species Petromyzon marinus (sea lamprey). See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Land use ordinance: means an ordinance or regulation of general application adopted by the municipal legislative body which controls, directs or delineates allowable uses of land and the standards for those uses. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Land use permit: means a municipal permit or approval required by a municipal land ordinance, site plan ordinance, subdivision ordinance, zoning ordinance or building permit ordinance or by the state subdivision law pursuant to subchapter 4. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4366
  • Landlocked salmon: means the subspecies Salmo salar Sebago that does not customarily migrate from inland waters to the ocean as part of its life cycle. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Landowner: means a person, company or other entity that holds title to land, including joint owners or tenants in common. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 8881
  • Large game: means domesticated cervids, domesticated boar and domesticated bison. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1341
  • Large-scale retail development: means any retail business establishment having a gross floor area of 75,000 square feet or more in one or more buildings at the same location, and any expansion of an existing building or buildings that results in a retail business establishment's having a gross floor area of 75,000 square feet or more in one or more buildings except when the expansion of an existing retail business establishment is less than 20,000 square feet. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4366
  • Law enforcement agency: means the State Police, a sheriff's department or a municipal police department. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 4651
  • Law enforcement agency: means an agency in the State charged with enforcement of state, county, municipal or federal laws or laws of a federally recognized Indian tribe, with the prevention, detection or investigation of criminal, immigration or customs laws or with managing custody of detained persons in the State and includes, but is not limited to, a municipal police department, a sheriff's department, the State Police, a university or college police department and the Department of Public Safety. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 4751
  • Law enforcement functions: means functions or services related to law enforcement, including patrol, laboratory services, intelligence, investigation, juvenile services, emergency services, detention and communications, whether or not those services are administered or directed through the sheriff's department or municipal police departments. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 451
  • Law enforcement officer: means a state, county or municipal official or an official of a federally recognized Indian tribe responsible for enforcing criminal, immigration or customs laws, including, but not limited to, a law enforcement officer who possesses a current and valid certificate issued by the Board of Trustees of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy pursuant to Title 25, section 2803?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 4751
  • Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
  • Learning disability: means a disorder exhibited in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell or to do mathematical calculations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19503
  • Lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale, including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 2-1103
  • Lease agreement: means the bargain, with respect to the lease, of the lessor and the lessee in fact as found in their language or by implication from other circumstances including course of dealing or usage of trade or course of performance as provided in this Article. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 2-1103
  • Lease contract: means the total legal obligation that results from the lease agreement as affected by this Article and any other applicable rules of law. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 2-1103
  • Leasehold interest: means the interest of the lessor or the lessee under a lease contract. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 2-1103
  • Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
  • Legislative committee: means a joint standing committee of the Legislature, a joint select committee of the Legislature, a task force, commission or council or any other committee established by the Legislature and composed wholly or partly of Legislators for the purpose of conducting legislative business. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 21
  • Legislative inquiry: means any request made by a legislative committee or individual Legislator to a state employee for public information or the state employee's personal opinion. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 21
  • Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
  • Lender: includes , but is not limited to, the following institutional lenders whose policies and procedures are subject to governmental supervision:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1742
  • Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 2-1103
  • Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 2-1103
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Licensed camping facility: means a recreational camp, youth camp or camping area licensed under Title 22, section 2495. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 9321-B
  • Licensed camping facility: means a recreational camp, youth camp or camping area licensed under Title 22, section 2495. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 9001-A
  • Licensed establishment: means premises to which a license for the sale of spirits, wine or malt liquor to be consumed on or off the licensed premises applies and any person or organization that is licensed to sell spirits, wine or malt liquor during the times and in the places and manners as specified in the license. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Licensed federal-state potato inspector: means an authorized representative of the Federal-State Inspection Service. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012
  • Licensed mental health professional: means a psychiatrist, licensed psychologist, licensed clinical social worker or certified social worker. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
  • Licensed veterinarian: means a person licensed as a veterinarian by the State who is operating under the direction or authority of the department. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 81
  • Licensee: means any person who holds an unrevoked and valid unsuspended license issued under this Article. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012
  • Licensee: includes , but is not limited to, agency liquor stores and certificate of approval holders. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • licensee: means a person, agricultural society or other entity licensed to conduct an agricultural fair in accordance with section 83. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 81
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Limited equity cooperative: means a cooperative affordable housing corporation organized in accordance with section 1754. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1742
  • Limited equity formula: means a rule or method for determining the transfer value of a share in a limited equity cooperative. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1742
  • Lineal descendant: Direct descendant of the same ancestors.
  • Liquidation harvesting: means the purchase of timberland followed by a harvest that removes most or all commercial value in standing timber, without regard for long-term forest management principles, and the subsequent sale or attempted resale of the harvested land within 5 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 8868
  • Liquor: means spirits, wine, malt liquor or hard cider, or any substance containing liquor, intended for human consumption, that contains more than 1/2 of 1% of alcohol by volume. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Liquor operation revenue bond: means a bond, note or other evidence of indebtedness issued by the bond bank pursuant to this subchapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 6052
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Livestock: means cattle, equines, goats, members of the genus Lama, rabbits, sheep and swine. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 81
  • Livestock and poultry: includes all cattle, sheep, goats, swine, equines, members of the genus lama, bison, ratites, poultry, domesticated cervids and other animals raised for food or fiber. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1302
  • Local climate action plan: means a planning and decision-making document adopted by a municipality or multimunicipal region that:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Local district: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Local health officer: means a municipal employee who has knowledge of the employee's community and meets educational, training and experience standards as set by the department in rule to comply with section 451. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 411
  • Lock Dam Lot: means a certain lot or parcel of land described as follows:
  • Beginning at a point on the East town line of Township 7, Range 13 on the south bank of the thoroughfare between Chamberlain and Eagle Lakes, said point beginning 4 miles + 26. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1872
  • Lock-up: means a facility designated by law or regularly used for detention for a temporary period before trial or transfer to a jail or other facility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 451
  • Long-term treatment: means treatment in a drug treatment center designed to provide treatment for a period in excess of 60 days. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 9701
  • Low income: means income that is less than or equal to 80% of median income for the area, adjusted for family size, in accordance with federal standards generally accepted at the time of incorporation under this subchapter and comparable to standards of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development in existence on the effective date of this section. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1742
  • Lower income households: means low-income and very low-income households as defined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development under the United States Housing Act of 1937, Public Law 75-412, 50 Stat. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5002
  • Lump-sum sale: means a sale in which the owner of standing timber sells the timber for one price and that price is not broken down by species or product. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 8881
  • Maine bag: means any consumer pack for potatoes on which appears the word Maine in letters larger than 1/4 inch or a pictorial representation of the outline of the shape of the state. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1032
  • Maine bag grade: means any of the officially established grades of potatoes as adopted by the commissioner. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1032
  • Maine market dealer: means any dealer as defined in subsection 4 who sells milk subject to the price control authority of the Maine Milk Commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • Maine market producer: means any Maine milk producer selling to a dealer marketing milk on the Maine market, or any agricultural cooperative that buys milk or handles milk for such a producer and sells it to such a dealer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • Maine Milk Pool: means the sum of collections as prescribed in section 3153, from Maine market producers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • Maine Rx Plus Program: means the Maine Rx Plus Program established under section 2681. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2685
  • MaineCare program: means the MaineCare program administered under chapter 855. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2685
  • Maintenance and operation: means all activities necessary to maintain facilities after they have been developed and all activities necessary to operate the facilities, including, but not limited to, informational, promotional and educational programs and safety and surveillance activities. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Maintenance and operation: means all activities necessary to maintain affordable housing after development and all activities necessary to operate the affordable housing, including, but not limited to, informational, promotional, safety and surveillance activities. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5246
  • Major medical equipment: means a single unit of medical equipment or a single system of components with related functions used to provide medical and other health services that costs $3,200,000 or more. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Majority multiple-employer welfare arrangement: means the multiple-employer welfare arrangement, as defined in Title 24?A, section 6601, subsection 5, in which the majority of state municipal government employees are enrolled as of the effective date of this section. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 286-M
  • Malt liquor: means liquor:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Management plan: means a plan of timber harvesting operations for areas within the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1872
  • Manufactured home: means a structure, transportable in one or more sections, that is 8 body feet or more in width and is 32 body feet or more in length and that is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems contained therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9081
  • Manufactured housing: means for the purpose of this subchapter, a structure, transportable in one or more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is 8 body feet or more in width, and 40 body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is 320 or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling, with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, including the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning and electrical systems contained therein; except that the term shall include any structure which meets all the requirements of this subsection except the size requirements and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily files a certification required by the Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and complies with the standards established under the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, 42 United States Code 5401, et seq. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9061
  • Manufactured housing: means a structural unit or units designed to be used as a dwelling or dwellings and constructed in a manufacturing facility and then transported by the use of its own chassis or placement on an independent chassis to a building site. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9002
  • Manufactured housing community: means a parcel or adjoining parcel of land, under single ownership, that has been planned and improved for the placement of 3 or more manufactured homes, but does not include a construction camp. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9081
  • Manufacturer: means a manufacturer of prescription drugs and includes a subsidiary or affiliate of a manufacturer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2697
  • Manufacturer: means any person engaged in manufacturing or assembling manufactured homes, regardless of the destination of the homes, including any person engaged in importing homes for resale. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9061
  • Manufacturer: means any person engaged in manufacturing or producing manufactured housing and then selling it to a dealer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9002
  • Manufacturer: means a person who distills, rectifies, brews, ferments, bottles or otherwise produces liquor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Manufacturing: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • Marina or boat yard owner: means a person who owns a facility that leases storage, docking or mooring space to watercraft. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Market: means any city, town or parts thereof of the State, or 2 or more of the same or parts thereof designated by the commission as a natural marketing area. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2951
  • Market area: means a geographic region exclusive of a state tax increment financing district that will be affected by the operation of the district. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5241
  • Market value: means the price for the security or derivative instrument obtained from a generally recognized source or the most recent quotation from such a source or, to the extent no generally recognized source exists, the price for the security or derivative instrument as determined pursuant to the terms of the instrument or in good faith by the insurer as can be reasonably demonstrated to the superintendent upon request, plus accrued but unpaid income thereon to the extent not included in the price as of the date that market value is determined. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Mass marketing plan: means a method of selling property and casualty insurance wherein such insurance is offered to employees of particular employers or to members of particular associations or organizations or to persons grouped in other ways and the employer, association or organization has agreed to or otherwise affiliated itself with, or facilitated, the sale of such insurance to its employees or members and employees and includes without limitation such plans whether described as "mass merchandising" "group merchandising" "franchise merchandising" or "collective merchandising. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 2932
  • Matching funds: means any combination of public and private funds used in conjunction with the Land for Maine's Future Trust Fund, the Public Access to Maine Waters Fund, the Maine Working Farmland Access and Protection Fund, the Conservation and Recreation Fund and the Conservation Land Management Fund for the purpose of this chapter, including, but not limited to: private contributions of cash or securities; money from municipal or other public agencies; money from a federal matching program, subject to the limitations of applicable federal and state laws, in an amount authorized by the federal program; contributions of real property, or interest in real property, that serves the acquisition needs of the State as determined by the Land for Maine's Future Board; in-kind contributions; or any combination of those funds. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 6201
  • Mechanic: means an individual engaged in the installation or servicing of HUD-code or pre-HUD-code homes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9002
  • Median household income: means the income computed based on the most current census information available, as provided by the State Economist. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5903
  • Medical review service provider: means an entity with whom the chief executive officer has contracted for the review of medical records and the provision of recommendations, opinions and certifications under this Part by health care providers employed by the entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Medium grade obligation: means an obligation that at the time of acquisition by the insurer is rated by the Securities Valuation Office of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners as Class "3" quality. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Member: means any person included in the membership of a retirement program of the retirement system, as provided in chapter 423, subchapter 2, or chapter 425, subchapter 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Member: means a person who owns a cooperative interest. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1742
  • Member: includes members of associations without capital stock and holders of common stock in associations organized with shares of stock. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 2003
  • Member: means a natural person who has been accepted for membership in and owns a membership share issued by an employee cooperative. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1972
  • Membership fee: means an initial payment made by a person to an employee cooperative as a condition to becoming a member. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1972
  • Membership service: means service rendered while a member of a retirement program of the retirement system on account of which contributions are made and for which credit is allowable under chapter 423, subchapter 4 or chapter 425, subchapter 4. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Mental illness: means a significant mental illness or emotional impairment, as determined by a qualified mental health professional. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19503
  • Merger: means a business combination pursuant to section 1102. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13-C Sec. 1101
  • Merrymeeting Bay: means the waters of the Kennebec River bounded as follows: from the high-tension wires at Chop's Point to the first dam on the Androscoggin River, to the first road bridge on the Muddy, Cathance, Abbagadassett and Eastern Rivers and to the Richmond-Dresden Bridge on the Kennebec River, in the counties of Cumberland, Sagadahoc and Lincoln. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Microenterprise: means a business located in the State that produces goods or provides services and has fewer than 10 full-time equivalent employees. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13063-J
  • Migratory game bird: means any of the following birds:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Migratory waterfowl: means anatidae, or waterfowl, including brant, wild ducks, geese and swans. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Military redevelopment zone: means a specified area within a municipality that is contained within a labor market that includes a military facility that sustained a loss of 400 or more employed workers, if the loss was caused by a federal military facility closure or downsizing, during the 5-year period immediately preceding the time of application for designation as a military redevelopment zone, or is projected to sustain a loss of 400 or more employed workers during the 5-year period immediately following the time of application, and has been designated by the commissioner as a military redevelopment zone under section 5250?J, subsection 3?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • Milk: means the lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows, goats or sheep. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2900
  • Milk: means any of the following, regardless of the presence of any flavoring:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2951
  • Milk: means cows' milk and includes cream. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2991
  • Milk: includes cream and one quart of cream is considered the equivalent of 4 quarts of milk. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2997
  • Milk distributor: means any person who offers for sale or sells to another person any milk or milk products in their final form. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2900
  • Milk plant: means any place, premises or establishment where milk or milk products are collected, handled, processed, stored, pasteurized, aseptically processed, bottled or otherwise prepared for distribution. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2900
  • Milk producer: means any person who operates a dairy farm and provides, sells or offers milk or milk products for sale. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2900
  • Milk products: means cream, light cream, light whipping cream, heavy cream, heavy whipping cream, whipped cream, whipped light cream, sour cream, acidified sour cream, cultured sour cream, milk, butter, evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk, nonfat dry milk solids, half-and-half, sour half-and-half, acidified sour half-and-half, cultured sour half-and-half, concentrated milk and milk products, skim milk, reconstituted or recombined milk and milk products, low-fat milk, light milk, reduced fat milk, homogenized milk, frozen milk concentrate, eggnog, cultured milk, buttermilk, yogurt, cottage cheese, creamed cottage cheese, acidified milk, low-sodium milk, lactose-reduced milk, aseptically processed and packaged milk and milk products, milk with added safe and suitable microbial organisms and any other milk product, frozen dairy dessert or frozen dairy dessert mix, cheese or other product designated as a milk product by the commissioner that is made by the addition or subtraction of milkfat or addition of safe and suitable optional ingredients for protein, vitamin or mineral fortification. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2900
  • Milk transport tank: means a vehicle, including the truck and tank, used by a bulk milk hauler and sampler or milk tank vehicle driver to transport bulk shipments of milk from a milk plant, receiving station or transfer station to another milk plant, receiving station or transfer station. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2900
  • Milk transportation company: means a company responsible for a milk transport tank. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2900
  • Minibar: means a self-contained locking cabinet, refrigerated or unrefrigerated, designed for storing, dispensing and selling liquor and related merchandise. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Minimum finance charge: The minimum, or fixed, finance charge that will be imposed during a billing cycle. A minimum finance charge usually applies only when a finance charge is imposed, that is, when you carry over a balance. Source: Federal Reserve
  • Minor: means a person who has not reached the age of 21 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Minority: when used in reference to age shall mean under the age of 18. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Moderate income: means income that is less than or equal to 100% of median income for the area, adjusted for family size, in accordance with federal standards generally accepted at the time of incorporation under this subchapter and comparable to standards of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development in existence on the effective date of this section. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1742
  • Moderate income households: means households in which gross income does not exceed 150% of the median income of the county or metropolitan statistical area in which the household is located. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5002
  • Modification: means the alteration, improvement, expansion, extension, renovation or replacement of a health care facility or health maintenance organization or portions thereof, including the initial equipment, and the replacement of equipment or existing buildings. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Month: means a calendar month. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Moratorium: means a land use ordinance or other regulation approved by a municipal legislative body that, if necessary, may be adopted on an emergency basis and given immediate effect and that temporarily defers all development, or a type of development, by withholding any permit, authorization or approval necessary for the specified type or types of development. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • mortgage: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4702
  • Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. Source: OCC
  • Mortgagee: shall be construed to include the heirs and assigns of the mortgagee. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 501
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
  • Motor vehicle: means any motor-driven vehicle, except motorboats. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Motorboat: means any watercraft, including airmobiles, equipped with propulsion machinery of any type, whether or not the machinery is the principal source of propulsion, is permanently or temporarily attached or is available for propulsion on the watercraft. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Motorboat carrying passengers for hire: means a motorboat used for the purpose of carrying a person or persons as passengers for valuable consideration, whether directly or indirectly flowing to the owner, charterer, agent or any other person interested in the watercraft. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Multimunicipal region: means a region made up of 2 or more municipalities that work together to cooperatively establish a growth management program or independent growth management programs that are unified with respect to the implementation of the state goal identified in section 4312, subsection 3, paragraph A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Multiple use: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1831
  • Multiple use: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1845
  • municipal authority: means any of the public corporations authorized to be created by section 4721. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4702
  • Municipal bond: means a bond or note or evidence of debt issued by a municipality and payable from taxes or from rates, charges or assessments, but does not include any bond or note or evidence of debt issued under chapter 213 or Title 10, chapter 110, subchapter IV. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5903
  • Municipal bond insurance fund: means any fund or funds established by the bank to provide reserves to insure payment of any state or municipal issuance of debt, pursuant to a bond insurance program established by the bank. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5903
  • municipal clerk: means the clerk of a municipality. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001
  • Municipal firefighter: means a person employed by a municipal fire department with the primary responsibility of aiding in the extinguishment of fires and includes a member of emergency medical services line personnel but does not include a member of a volunteer firefighter association. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 286-M
  • Municipal health department: means a health department or division that is established pursuant to municipal charter or ordinance in accordance with Title 30?A, chapter 141 and accredited by a national federally recognized credentialing process. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 411
  • Municipal legislative body: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001
  • Municipal officers: means the mayor, councillors and aldermen of cities, the members of the select board of towns and the assessors of plantations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 501
  • Municipal officers: means the elected mayor, aldermen or councillors of a city, the members of the select board or councillors of a town and the assessors of a plantation located in Piscataquis County. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 822
  • Municipal officers: means the mayor, councillors or members of the select board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 852
  • Municipal officers: means the mayor and municipal officers or councilors of a city, the members of the select board or councilors of a town and the assessors of a plantation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Municipal officers: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001
  • Municipal officers: means the mayor and aldermen or councillors of a city, the members of the select board or councillors of a town and the assessors of plantations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Municipal official: means any elected member of a municipal government in Penobscot County. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 900-K
  • Municipal official: means any elected or appointed member of a municipal government. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001
  • Municipal reviewing authority: means the municipal planning board, agency or office or, if none, the municipal officers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4366
  • Municipal reviewing authority: means the municipal planning board, agency or office, or if none, the municipal officers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Municipal security: means a bond or note or evidence of debt issued by a governmental unit and payable from taxes or from rates, charges or assessments, but does not include any bond or note or evidence of debt issued under chapter 213 or Title 10, chapter 110, subchapter IV. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5903
  • Municipal year: means a municipality's fiscal year as determined by the municipal officers under section 5651. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001
  • Municipality: shall include cities, towns and plantations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 501
  • Municipality: means a city or town, except as provided in chapter 225. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001
  • Municipality: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5903
  • Municipality: means a city, town or plantation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Mutual fund service provider: means a taxpayer, as defined in Title 36, section 111, subsection 7, subject to tax under Title 36, Part 8 other than a financial institution as defined in Title 36, section 5206?D, subsection 8, that derives more than 50% of its gross income from the direct or indirect provision of management, distribution or administration services to or on behalf of a regulated investment company or from trustees, sponsors and participants of employee benefit plans that have accounts in a regulated investment company. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • Muzzle-loading firearm: means a muzzleloader, a traditional muzzleloader or a muzzle-loading shotgun. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Muzzle-loading shotgun: means a firearm that:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Muzzleloader: means a firearm that:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • National Association of Insurance Commissioners: means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or its successor organization of insurance regulators. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 15
  • National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. Source: OCC
  • National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) Source: OCC
  • Natural area: means any area of land or water, or both land and water, whether publicly or privately owned, that retains or has reestablished its natural character, though it need not be completely natural and undisturbed, and that supports, harbors or otherwise contains endangered, threatened or rare plants, animals and native ecological systems, or rare or unique geological, hydrological, natural historical, scenic or other similar features of scientific and educational value benefiting the citizens of the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 544
  • Naturally shed: means naturally dropped from the animal without any human manipulation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Neglect: includes , but is not limited to, failure to establish or carry out an individual program, treatment or habilitation plan or the deprivation of or failure to meet essential needs, including needs for adequate nutrition, clothing, health care and a safe environment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19503
  • New health service: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • New space economy: means the full range of decentralized, diversified, entrepreneurial and accessible activities and the use of resources and players across industries that create value and benefits to human beings in the course of exploring, researching, understanding, managing and using extraterrestrial space. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13202
  • New structure or structures: includes any structure for which construction begins on or after September 23, 1988. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4401
  • Noncitizen: means any person who is not a United States citizen. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4099-I
  • Noncommercial clerk: means a clerk that is not listed as a commercial clerk under section 106 and that is:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Noncommercial registered agent: means a person that is not listed as a commercial registered agent under section 106 and that is:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Nonferrous metal: includes the following metals and their alloys:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3771
  • Nonpartisan staff: means the directors and staffs of the Office of Policy and Legal Analysis, the Office of Fiscal and Program Review, the Office of the Revisor of Statutes, the Legislative Information Office, the Law and Legislative Reference Library, the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability, the Office of Legislative Information Technology and the Office of the Executive Director of the Legislative Council. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 21
  • Nonqualified foreign entity: means a foreign entity that is not authorized to transact business in this State pursuant to a filing with the Secretary of State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Nonreserved public lands: means all public domain lands, public islands in inland and coastal waters, lands acquired under section 8003, subsection 3, paragraph N, lands acquired by the bureau pursuant to other lawful authority and any other lands the management and control of which are not otherwise provided for by law. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1801
  • Nonresident: means a person who does not fall within the definition of resident in subsection 53. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Nonresident LLP statement: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Normal retirement age: means the specified age, the years of service requirement or any combination of age and years of service requirements at which a member becomes eligible for retirement benefits and at which those benefits may not be reduced under section 17852, subsection 3 or 3?A; section 17852, subsection 10, paragraph C; and section 18452, subsection 3. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Northern Maine market producer: means any Maine milk producer located in Aroostook County or Washington County or that portion of Penobscot County north of and including the minor civil divisions of Medway, T. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • Not pasteurized: means any milk or milk product that has not been subjected to the temperature and time requirements of pasteurization using equipment designed for pasteurization or has not been aseptically processed and packaged. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2900
  • Notes: means any notes of the bank issued under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5903
  • Notice: means written notification served personally, sent by certified mail or sent by first-class mail to the last known address of the person for whom the notification is intended. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111
  • Nursery: means a place where nursery stock is produced, stored or offered for sale. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2211
  • Nursery stock: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2211
  • Nursing facility: means any facility defined under section 1812?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Nursing facility MaineCare funding pool: means that limit established in accordance with section 333?A for nursing facility projects. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Nutrition: means the study of proper and balanced diet to promote health, especially in human beings. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2997
  • Nutrition education: means helping and educating people in the selection of food for the primary purpose of nourishing their bodies in health throughout the life cycle and helping and educating people in extending and teaching knowledge of food and nutrition principles, including promotion and research, and the application of these principles. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2997
  • Oath: includes an affirmation, when affirmation is allowed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Obligation: means a bond, note, debenture, trust certificate including an equipment certificate, production payment, negotiable bank certificate of deposit, banker's acceptance, credit tenant loan as that term is defined in the practices and procedures manual of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or its successor publication, loan secured by financing net leases and other evidence of indebtedness for the payment of money, or participations, certificates or other evidence of an interest in any of the foregoing, whether constituting a general obligation of the issuer or payable only out of certain revenues or certain funds pledged or otherwise dedicated for payment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Obligations: includes bonds, debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1110
  • obligee: includes :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4702
  • Off-premises catering: means service of liquor with or without food by a licensee to groups at prearranged functions located at a place other than the licensee's premises. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Offer: when used in connection with "health services" means that the health care facility or health maintenance organization holds itself out as capable of providing or having the means to provide a health service. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Office: means the Office of Information Technology. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1972
  • Office: means the Office of Policy Innovation and the Future established by section 3102. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 3101
  • Officer: means the State Human Resources Officer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 7032
  • On-premises retail licensee: means a person licensed to sell liquor to be consumed on the premises where sold. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Open areas: means any space or area the preservation or restriction of the use of which would:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001
  • Open firearm season on deer: means the time during which it is lawful to hunt deer with a firearm, including the special muzzle-loading season as described in section 11404. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Operating revenues: means funds available to the authority from fees, fares, rental or sale of property and miscellaneous revenue and interest generated by the airport and collected in accordance with the provisions of the Surplus Property Act, 49 United States Code App. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13080-A
  • Operating revenues: means funds available to the authority from fees, fares, rental or sale of property and miscellaneous revenue and interest not otherwise pledged or dedicated. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13083-B
  • Operating revenues: means funds available to the authority from fees, fares, rental or sale of property and miscellaneous revenue and interest not otherwise pledged or dedicated. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13083-H
  • Operating revenues: means funds available to the corporation from fees, fares and rental or sale of property and miscellaneous revenue and interest not otherwise pledged or dedicated. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13202
  • Operation: means the act of operating as defined in subsection 18. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Operator: means the person who is in control or in charge of a watercraft, snowmobile or ATV while it is in use. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Option: means an agreement giving the buyer the right to buy or receive, sell or deliver, enter into, extend or terminate or effect a cash settlement based on the actual or expected price, spread, level, performance or value of one or more underlying interests, including, without limitation, an option to purchase or sell a swap at a given price and time or at a series of prices and times. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Organic law: means the statutes, if any, other than this chapter, governing the internal affairs of an entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Organic rules: means the public organic document and private organic rules of an entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Organization: means a corporation, partnership or unincorporated association. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Organization: means a corporation, partnership or unincorporated association. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Original assessed value: means the assessed value of a development district as of March 31st of the tax year preceding the year in which it was designated and, for development districts designated on or after April 1, 2014, "original assessed value" means the taxable assessed value of a development district as of March 31st of the tax year preceding the year in which it was designated by the legislative body of a municipality or a plantation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Original assessed value: means the assessed value of an affordable housing development district as of March 31st of the tax year preceding the year in which it was designated, and, for affordable housing development districts designated on or after April 1, 2014, "original assessed value" means the taxable assessed value of an affordable housing development district as of March 31st of the tax year preceding the year in which it was designated by the municipality or plantation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5246
  • Ornamental trees: means trees of shade, beauty or landscape value, or those trees intended to become ornamental trees. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2173
  • Other materials: means material not included in the definition of "nursery stock" such as containers, seeds and cut Christmas trees. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2211
  • Other organization: means any not-for-profit, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation or association that is not a state agency. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1782
  • outfitter: means a person who collects dues or fees or receives any form of compensation for arranging or providing whitewater rafting trips or for operating a whitewater rafting organization. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 12901
  • outstanding river segments: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4401
  • Over-order premium: means that part of the minimum Class I, Class II and Class III prices established by the Maine Milk Commission pursuant to chapter 603, that exceeds the applicable Class I, Class II and Class III prices established pursuant to the northeast marketing area milk marketing order as adjusted to reflect the increased costs of production pursuant to section 2954, subsection 2, paragraph A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • Over-the-counter derivative instrument: means a derivative instrument entered into with a counter-party other than through a qualified exchange or futures exchange or cleared through a qualified clearinghouse. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Own time: means an employee's personal time or authorized leave time, earned as a condition of employment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 21
  • Owner: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Parcel: means a contiguous tract of land. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1341
  • Parcel: means a contiguous tract or plot of forest land owned by a landowner. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 8868
  • parcel: includes an entire unit of real estate notwithstanding the fact that it is divided by a road, way, railroad or pipeline. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • Parent: means mother or father. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Parent: means a natural or adoptive parent or a parent established under Title 19?A, chapter 61, unless parental rights have been terminated. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
  • Park: means any area of land or an interest in land, with or without improvements, that is acquired by or under the control of the State, managed primarily for public recreation or conservation purposes and classified by the director as a park, including:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1801
  • Part-time deputy: means a deputy who is compensated under section 386, subsection 2, and who does not work more than the maximum amount allowed under that subsection in any one calendar or fiscal year while performing county law enforcement duties. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 351
  • Part-time employment: means employment for less than the standard work week for the class and agency on regularly scheduled hours each week for the position. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 902
  • Participant: means any person, other than the agritourism professional, who engages in an agritourism activity, whether or not a fee is paid to view or participate in the agritourism activity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 251
  • Participant: means an individual who has an IRA under the program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 171
  • Participating local district: means a local district that has approved the participation of its employees in the Participating Local District Retirement Program of the retirement system under section 18201. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • party to a share exchange: means any domestic or foreign corporation or eligible entity that will:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13-C Sec. 1101
  • Passenger: means every person carried on board a watercraft other than:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Patrol: means the regular and repeated circuit of the jurisdictional area as a method of deterring criminal activities, of observing or inspecting for possible violations or criminal activities, of providing for rapid response to calls for assistance and of maintaining order and the general peace. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 451
  • Patronage: means the amount of work performed as a member of an employee cooperative, measured in accordance with the articles of incorporation or bylaws. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1972
  • Paved way: means a public road treated with bituminous or concrete material. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Pawn transaction: means the lending of money on the security of pledged tangible personal property that is delivered to a pawnbroker and held by the pawnbroker. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3960
  • Pawnbroker: means a person who engages in pawn transactions. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3960
  • payroll deduction IRA arrangement: means an arrangement by which an employer allows employees to contribute to an IRA by means of payroll deduction. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 171
  • Performing arts center: means a charitable or nonprofit corporation incorporated as a corporation without capital stock under Title 13, chapter 81 and that has as its primary purpose the encouragement, promotion and presentation of the arts for the benefit of the public. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Permanent incapacity: means a guardian or conservator has been appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction to manage the affairs of an office holder. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 1
  • Permit: includes , but is not limited to, a permit by rule issued by the Department of Environmental Protection in accordance with Title 38, section 344, subsection 7. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13054
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation or other legal entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1341
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, business or similar trust, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality or any other legal or commercial entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Person: shall mean the State, any municipality, political subdivision, institution, public or private corporation, individual, partnership or other entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1751
  • Person: shall include , where applicable, natural persons, corporations, trusts, partnerships, incorporated or unincorporated associations and any other legal entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 206
  • Person: means any individual, plant operator, partnership, corporation, company, firm, trustee, association or institution. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2900
  • Person: means any individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association or other unit, and the State and all political subdivisions or agencies thereof, except state owned and operated institutions. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2951
  • Person: means any individual, partnership, company, public or private corporation, political subdivision or agency of the State, department, agency or instrumentality of the United States or any other legal entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2601
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, facility, institution or agency, public or private. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
  • Person: means a human being or an organization. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, association, society, club, corporation, financial institution, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, assignee or any other group or combination acting as a unit, the State or Federal Government or any political subdivision or agency of either government. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111
  • Person: means an individual; trust or estate; partnership; corporation, including associations, joint stock companies and insurance companies; the State or a political subdivision or instrumentality of the State, including a municipal corporation of the State; or any other legal entity recognized by state law. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Person: means an individual or entity, including but not limited to a corporation, partnership, firm, organization, company, homeowner, consumer or purchaser. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9002
  • Person: means any natural person, firm, corporation, partnership or other organization, association or group, however organized. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19201
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, firm, organization or other legal entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001
  • Person: means an individual, partnership or any group of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2173
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, firm, association or other legal entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, 2 or more persons having a joint or common interest, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 12901
  • Person: means an individual, business entity, multilateral development bank or a government or quasi-governmental body, such as a political subdivision or a government-sponsored enterprise. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Person directly affected by a review: includes :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Person responsible for the child: includes the child's custodian. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
  • Person with a disability: means a person with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of that person and includes, but is not limited to, a person with a developmental disability, a learning disability or a mental illness. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19503
  • Personal injury: means bodily injury as defined in Title 17?A, section 2, subsection 5 or psychological injury incurred by a victim who has sustained the threat of bodily injury. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 3360
  • Personal watercraft: includes , but is not limited to, a jet ski, wet bike, surf jet and miniature speedboat. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Personnel: means staff employed by the agency. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19503
  • Persons of low income: means persons or families, elderly or otherwise, who lack the income which is necessary, as determined by a housing authority, to enable them, without financial assistance, to live in or purchase decent, safe and sanitary dwellings, without overcrowding. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4702
  • PFAS: means a perfluoroalkyl substance or polyfluoroalkyl substance that is detectable in drinking water using standard laboratory methods established by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, including regulated PFAS contaminants. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2660-AA
  • Pick-up contributions: means member contributions to the retirement system which are assumed and paid by the employer through a reduction of members' salaries for services rendered, in accordance with the United States Internal Revenue Code, Section 414(h), in lieu of employee contributions. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Pine Tree Development Zone benefits: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • Place: shall include municipalities, townships and any other unorganized area. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 501
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Planning committee: means the committee established by the municipal officers of a municipality or combination of municipalities that has the general responsibility established under sections 4324 and 4326. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Plant pest: means any insect, mite, nematode, fungus, virus, bacteria, slug, snail or other form of aquatic or terrestrial plant or organism that may cause injury to a plant or that the commissioner declares to be a plant pest. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2211
  • Plant price: means the F. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
  • political subdivision: includes an instrumentality of the State of Maine, of one or more of its political subdivisions, the University of Maine System, academies, water, sewer and school districts and associations of municipalities, or an instrumentality of the State and one or more of its political subdivisions, but only if such instrumentality is a juristic entity which is legally separate and distinct from the State or subdivision and only if its employees are not by virtue of their relation to such juristic entity employees of the State or subdivision. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19002
  • Potential exposure: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Poultry: means domesticated fowl and domesticated waterfowl. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 81
  • Poultry: means all domesticated birds. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1751
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • Preadoptive parent: means a person who has entered into a preadoption agreement with the department with respect to the child. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Precommercial silvicultural activities: means chemical or mechanical thinning operations, planting, stand conversion or timber stand improvement activities where no forest products are sold. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 8881
  • Predevelopment activity: means any appropriately capitalized expenditure by or on behalf of a health care facility made in preparation for the offering or development of a new health service for which a certificate of need would be required and arrangements or commitments made for financing the offering or development of the new health service and includes site acquisitions, surveys, studies, expenditures for architectural designs, plans, working drawings and specifications. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Premises: includes lands, private ways and any buildings and structures located on the lands or private ways. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Premises: includes the place where an incorporated civic organization sells or serves spirits, wine and malt liquor under a license obtained under section 1071. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Premium: means a ribbon, trophy or monetary amount or a service or object with monetary value awarded as a prize in a competition. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 81
  • President: means the president of the system. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 9000
  • Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
  • Primary impact communities: means Aroostook County, Cumberland County and Washington County. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13202
  • Primary impact community: means the municipalities of Caribou, Caswell, Fort Fairfield, Limestone, Presque Isle and Van Buren and Aroostook County. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13080-A
  • Primary impact community: means all municipalities in Washington County, including the unorganized territories. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13083-B
  • Primary impact community: means the municipalities of Bath, Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Brunswick, Freeport, Harpswell, Lisbon Falls and Topsham and Androscoggin County, Cumberland County and Sagadahoc County. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13083-H
  • Primary System: means that portion of the state highway system which the Department of Transportation has by official designation incorporated into the Federal-Aid Primary System. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3752
  • Primitive camping area: means a camping location that does not have access to a water supply that is approved by the Department of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Principal structure: means any building or structure in which the main use of the premises takes place. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4401
  • Prior service: means service rendered before the date of establishment of the retirement system as set forth in section 17101. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Private organic rules: means the rules, whether or not in a record, that govern the internal affairs of an entity, are binding on all of its interest holders and are not part of its public organic document, if any. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Private pond: means an artifically constructed pond impounded within the limits of the riparian owner, even though the water is not supplied directly from a brook, stream or river. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Pro se: A Latin term meaning "on one's own behalf"; in courts, it refers to persons who present their own cases without lawyers.
  • Probable cause: means a reasonable ground for belief that a person with a disability has been or may be subject to abuse or neglect. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19503
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
  • Processor: means any person other than a consumer who purchases or contracts to purchase potatoes or rotation crops primarily for manufacture into articles of food or starch by operations that change the physical form the potatoes or rotation crops possessed when harvested. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012
  • Processor: means any person other than a consumer who purchases or contracts to purchase potatoes for processing or manufacturing which changes the physical form that the raw product possessed when harvested. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 3322
  • Producer: means a person in the State that grows, manufactures, harvests or otherwise creates agricultural, food or forest products and value-added products, including a person engaged in farming, harvesting or other agricultural and forestry manufacturing activities. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 320-A
  • Producer: means any person who produces milk and sells such milk only to dealers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2951
  • Producer: means any person who produces milk and sells milk to a dealer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2991
  • Producer: means any person who produces milk and sells the milk to a dealer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2997
  • Producer dealer: means any dealer who produces a part or all of that dealer's milk and sells milk to other than a dealer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2991
  • Producer dealer: means a dealer who produces a part or all of that dealer's milk or a person who produces milk and sells to a grocery store, dairy products' store or similar commercial establishment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2997
  • Producer-dealer: means a dealer who produces a part or all of the dealer's milk or a person who produces milk and sells to a grocery store or dairy products store or similar commercial establishment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2951
  • Producer-dealer: means a dealer who produces a part or all of the dealer's milk or a person who produces milk and sells to a grocery store or dairy products store or similar commercial establishment, and includes an agricultural cooperative comprised solely of dairy farmers that wholly owns and operates its processing facilities, and whose individual members hold a share of that ownership that is in direct proportion to that individual's share of all milk produced by cooperative members for the cooperative, except that such an agricultural cooperative is a "producer-dealer" under this chapter only if it was in existence on January 1, 1986, and had been recognized on or before that date by the commissioner as meeting the criteria established in this subsection. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • Professional corporation: means a corporation for profit, other than a foreign professional corporation, subject to the provisions of this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 723
  • Professional firefighter: means an employee of a municipal fire department who is a member of the Participating Local District Retirement Program or who is a participating member under chapter 425 and who aids in the extinguishment of fires, whether or not the employee has other administrative duties. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 18601
  • Professional forester: means a person licensed pursuant to Title 32, chapter 76. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 8868
  • Professional limited liability company: means a limited liability company formed to perform a professional service. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 723
  • Professional limited liability partnership: means a limited liability partnership formed to perform a professional service. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 723
  • Professional service: means the professional services provided by the following persons to the extent they are required to be licensed under state law:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 723
  • Profiling: means the consideration of or reliance on, to any degree, actual or perceived race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry or national origin, age or familial status in deciding which persons to subject to a traffic or pedestrian stop or in deciding the scope or substance of law enforcement activities following a traffic or pedestrian stop. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 4751
  • Program: means the Maine Retirement Savings Program established in accordance with this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 171
  • Program: means the Retired County and Municipal Law Enforcement Officers and Municipal Firefighters Health Insurance Program established in this section. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 286-M
  • Program: means the Maine Energy, Housing and Economic Recovery Program established in section 4862. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4861
  • Program: means the Tobacco Prevention and Control Program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 271
  • Program: means the electric assistance program established by the commission pursuant to Title 35?A, section 3214. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4961
  • program: means a statement of means and objectives designed to encourage the development and maintenance of affordable housing within an affordable housing development district. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5246
  • Prohibited substance: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 81
  • Project: means any acquisition, capital expenditure, new health service or change in a health service, predevelopment activity or other activity that requires a certificate of need under section 329. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Project costs: means any expenditures or monetary obligations incurred or expected to be incurred that are authorized by section 5225, subsection 1 and included in a development program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Project costs: means any expenditures or monetary obligations incurred or expected to be incurred that are authorized by section 5225, subsection 1 and included in a development program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5241
  • Project costs: means any expenditures or monetary obligations incurred or expected to be incurred that are authorized by section 5249, subsection 1 and included in an affordable housing development program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5246
  • Proper invoice: means an invoice for property, products or services deemed to be satisfactory in quality and quantity, in conformance with the request of the state agency and on which the amount due has been correctly calculated. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1552
  • Property: shall be construed to mean both real estate and personal property. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 501
  • Property insurance: means all contracts of insurance covered by section 705. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 2932
  • Property loss: includes a deductible paid by the victim pursuant to an insurance claim related to the property loss. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 3360-S
  • Proprietary lease: means an agreement with a cooperative affordable housing corporation governing a member's right to occupancy under which a member has an exclusive possessory interest in a unit. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1742
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Protective headgear: means a helmet that conforms with minimum standards of construction and performance as prescribed by the American National Standards Institute specification Z90. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Protocols: means procedures developed for the interaction of the suspected child abuse and neglect committee and family support team. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4092
  • Proxy voting: The practice of allowing a legislator to cast a vote in committee for an absent legislator.
  • public drain: means any sewer or drain constructed or laid by a governmental entity for the use of the public and includes both gravity and pressure mains. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001
  • Public drinking water supplier: means a public water supplier as defined by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act that provides drinking water from a source water protection area. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Public organic document: means the public record, the filing of which creates an entity, and any amendment to or restatement of that record. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Public reserved lands: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1801
  • Public safety facility: means a facility used primarily for the functions of municipal or plantation government that ensure the protection of residents, organizations and institutions in the municipality or plantation, including the provision of law enforcement, fire and emergency services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Public service infrastructure: means those facilities that are essential for public health, welfare and safety. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5903
  • Purchase: includes taking by sale, lease, mortgage, security interest, pledge, gift or any other voluntary transaction creating an interest in goods. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 2-1103
  • Qualified bank: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Qualified broker or dealer: means a broker or dealer that is organized under the laws of a state, is registered under the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 15 United States Code §§ 78a to 78kk and has net capital in excess of $250,000,000. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • qualified business: means any for-profit business in this State engaged in or that will engage in financial services, manufacturing or a targeted technology business that has added or will add at least one qualified Pine Tree Development Zone employee above its base level of employment in this State and that meets the following criteria:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • Qualified business activity: means a business activity that is conducted within a Pine Tree Development Zone and is directly related to financial services, manufacturing or a targeted technology business for which the business receives a letter of certification from the commissioner pursuant to section 5250?O. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • Qualified business entity: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Qualified clearinghouse: means a clearinghouse subject to the rules of a qualified exchange or a futures exchange that provides clearing services, including acting as a counter-party to each of the parties to a transaction such that the parties no longer have credit risk to each other. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Qualified domestic relations order: means a domestic relations order that:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Qualified easement: means an agricultural conservation easement held by a municipality on qualified farmland in that municipality that:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 60
  • Qualified exchange: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Qualified farmland: means farmland that meets eligibility requirements established by the department by rule. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 60
  • Qualified for public sale: means registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, 15 United States Code §§ 77a to 77aa. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Qualified foreign entity: means a foreign entity that is authorized to transact business in this State pursuant to a filing with the Secretary of State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Qualified foreign exchange: means a foreign exchange, board of trade or contract market located outside the United States, its territories or possessions:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Qualified person: means an individual, general partnership, professional limited liability company, professional limited liability partnership, other professional corporation or other entity or trust that is eligible under this chapter to be issued shares by a professional corporation or any other entity that is authorized by statute to provide the same professional service provided by the professional corporation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 723
  • qualified Pine Tree Development Zone employees: means new, full-time employees hired in this State by a qualified Pine Tree Development Zone business for work directly in one or more qualified business activities for whom a retirement program subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 United States Code §§ 101 to 1461, as amended, and group health insurance are provided and whose income derived from employment within the Pine Tree Development Zone, calculated on a calendar year basis, is greater than the most recent annual per capita personal income in the county in which the qualified employee is employed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • Qualified residential treatment program: means a program within a licensed children's residential care facility as defined in section 8101, subsection 4 that provides continuous 24-hour care and supportive services to children in a residential nonfamily home setting that:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
  • qualifying member: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17803
  • Qualifying member: means a member in service or a former member who is receiving a disability retirement benefit. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17951
  • qualifying member: means a member who dies as a result of an injury arising out of and in the course of employment as an employee, or a former member receiving a disability retirement benefit who dies as a result of an injury arising out of and in the course of employment as an employee. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 18001
  • qualifying member: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 18403
  • Qualifying member: means a member in service or a former member who is receiving a disability retirement benefit. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 18551
  • Qualifying member: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 18601
  • Quarterly census of employment and wages: means the comprehensive tabulation of employment and wage information for workers produced by the quarterly census of employment and wages program, a cooperative program involving the federal Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics and the state employment security agencies. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • ranch: means the land, plants, animals, buildings, structures, ponds and machinery used in the commercial production of agricultural products. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 251
  • ranching: means primarily engaging in the commercial production of agricultural products as a livelihood and includes dairy farming; raising livestock, freshwater fish, fur-bearing animals or poultry; producing, cultivating, growing and harvesting fruit, produce or floricultural or horticultural commodities; or any practices on a farm or ranch that are incident to or in conjunction with these farming operations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 251
  • Rapidly flowing river: means a river or stretch of a river with rapids classified as class IV or higher by the department according to the International River Classification System or a river or stretch of a river designated by the department by rule on the basis of public safety, including, but not limited to, the Kennebec River between Harris Station and West Forks and the West Branch Penobscot River between McKay Station and Pockwockamus Falls. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 12901
  • Raptor: means a bird of the order Strigiformes and of the families Accipitridae and Falconidae commonly called buteos, accipiters, falcons and owls. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Rate of growth ordinance: means a land use ordinance or other rule that limits the number of building or development permits issued by a municipality or other jurisdiction over a designated time frame. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Real estate: includes lands and all tenements and hereditaments connected therewith, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Real estate: means land and structures attached to it. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Receiving station: means any place, premise or establishment where raw milk is received, collected, handled, stored or cooled and prepared for further transporting. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2900
  • Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
  • reconstruction: means any activities undertaken to maintain the properties of Loring Air Force Base, or any part of those properties, as a modern, safe and efficient facility and includes, but is not limited to, any rebuilding, redesign, improvement or enlargement of the real properties or environmental mitigation activities on base properties. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13080-A
  • reconstruction: means any activities undertaken to maintain the properties of Brunswick Naval Air Station, or any part of those properties, as a modern, safe and efficient facility and includes, but is not limited to, any rebuilding, redesign, improvement or enlargement of the real properties or environmental mitigation activities on base properties. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13083-H
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3771
  • Records: means books, records, accounts, memoranda or other data pertaining to the purchase and distribution of milk. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2991
  • Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. Source: FDIC
  • Recreational boating: means operating a motorboat primarily for the operator's pleasure or leasing, renting or chartering a motorboat to another person for the other person's pleasure. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Recreational campfire: includes a residential fire contained within an out-of-door fireplace. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 9321-B
  • Red flag warning: means a forecast warning issued by the United States Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service or its successor, in consultation with the bureau, that informs the public, firefighters and land management agencies that conditions are ideal for wildland fire combustion and rapid spread. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 9321-B
  • Regional council: means a regional planning commission or a council of governments established under chapter 119, subchapter I. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Register of critical areas: means the official listing of critical areas. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 544
  • Registered agent: means a commercial registered agent or a noncommercial registered agent. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Registered agent filing: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Registered apprenticeship: means an apprenticeship program registered with the Maine Apprenticeship Program in accordance with Title 26, chapter 37. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Registered mail: shall be construed to include certified mail. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 501
  • Regular employer: means a person doing business in or operating a business in the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2173
  • Regular interest: means interest at the rate set from time to time by the board in accordance with section 17156. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Regulated PFAS contaminants: means perfluorooctanoic acid, perfluorooctane sulfonic acid, perfluorohexane sulfonic acid, perfluorononanoic acid, perfluoroheptanoic acid and perfluorodecanoic acid. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2660-AA
  • Regulatory impact notice: means a written notice from the Secretary of State to the Governor as provided in section 90?S. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 90-O
  • Rehabilitation facility: means an inpatient facility that is operated for the primary purpose of assisting in the rehabilitation of disabled persons through an integrated program of medical services and other services that are provided under competent professional supervision. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Relative: includes , for an Indian child as defined by the federal Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, 25 United States Code § 1903, Subsection 4, or by the Maine Indian Child Welfare Act, section 3943, subsection 8, an extended family member as defined by the law or custom of the Indian child's tribe or, in the absence of such law or custom, an extended family member as defined by the federal Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, 25 United States Code § 1903, Subsection 2 or the Maine Indian Child Welfare Act, section 3943, subsection 5. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
  • 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.
  • Remainderman: One entitled to the remainder of an estate after a particular reserved right or interest, such as a life tenancy, has expired.
  • Removal of the child from home: means that the department or a court has taken a child out of the home of the parent, legal guardian or custodian without the permission of the parent or legal guardian. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
  • Replacement equipment: means a piece of capital equipment that replaces another piece of capital equipment that performs essentially the same functions as the replaced equipment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 328
  • Replication or synthetic asset transaction: means a derivative transaction entered into in conjunction with other permissible investments held by the insurer in order to reproduce the investment characteristics of other permissible investments. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
  • Represented entity: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Repurchase transaction: means a transaction in which an insurer sells securities to a qualified bank or a qualified business entity or to a bank or a business entity whose obligations with respect to the transaction are guaranteed by a qualified bank or a qualified business entity and the insurer is obligated to repurchase the sold securities or equivalent securities from the bank or business entity at a specified price, either within a specified period of time or upon demand. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Required debt service reserve: means the amount required to be on deposit in the reserve fund as prescribed by section 6006, subsection 1. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5903
  • Required minimum reserve: means the amount required to be on deposit in a capital reserve fund as prescribed by section 6006, subsection 1?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5903
  • Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
  • Rescue: means those services required to free or save persons from imminent injury or death due to accidents or other emergencies. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 451
  • Research and development activities: means activities that directly or through capital investment support basic and applied scientific research and related commercial development funded by state appropriations and bond proceeds. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13070-J
  • Reselling agent: means an agency liquor store with a federal and state license permitting the agency liquor store to sell spirits to a retail licensee licensed for on-premises consumption. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Reserve fund: means the Maine Municipal Bond Bank Reserve Fund created or established as provided in section 6006. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5903
  • residence: refer to an individual's place of domicile. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001
  • Resident: means a citizen of the United States or a person who is not a citizen of the United States who has been domiciled in the State for one year who:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Resident: means a person who is domiciled in this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 7032
  • Resident: means any occupant of space owned by the cooperative affordable housing corporation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1742
  • Residue: means by-products of a processed log, including, but not limited to bark, woodchips or sawdust. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 8881
  • Resource family: means a person or persons who provide care to a child in the child welfare system and who are foster parents, permanency guardians, adoptive parents or members of the child's extended birth family. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
  • Restaurant: means a place that is regularly used for the purpose of providing food for the public and that has adequate and sanitary kitchen and dining room equipment and capacity for preparing and serving suitable food for the public. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • Restricted zone: means a land area of from 400 feet to 800 feet that extends in all directions from the bounds of the watercourse and includes all land areas within the bounds of the watercourse and all additional areas that may be added by mutual agreement between the director and private property owners. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1872
  • Retail business establishment: means a business engaged in the sale of goods to the ultimate consumer for direct use or consumption. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4366
  • retail licensee: means a person licensed by the bureau to engage in the purchase and resale of liquor in the original container or by the drink for on-premises or off-premises consumption. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • retail pharmacy: means a retail pharmacy located in this State, or another business licensed to dispense prescription drugs in this State, that participates in the program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2681
  • Retail sale: means a doorstep delivery and over-the-counter sales by stores. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2951
  • Retail sale: means any single sale of liquor for consumption on or off the premises where sold and whether in the original package or as a mixed drink for immediate consumption. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Retail store: means a grocery store, dairy product store or any similar commercial establishment where milk is sold to consumers for consumption off the premises. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2951
  • Retailer: means a person engaged in the business of buying potatoes or rotation crops in wholesale or jobbing quantities and reselling the potatoes or rotation crops bought primarily to consumers through at least 5 retail outlets located within or without the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012
  • Retirement: means termination of membership with a retirement allowance granted under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Retirement allowance: means the retirement payments to which a member is or may be entitled as provided in this Part. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Retirement benefit: means the same as retirement allowance. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Retirement system: means the Maine Public Employees Retirement System established in section 17101. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 171
  • Retirement system: means the Maine Public Employees Retirement System. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Return: means any document, digital file or electronic data transmission containing information required by this Title to be reported to the State Tax Assessor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111
  • reuse: means an alternative use of the base facility from its use as a military installation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13080-A
  • reuse: means an alternative use of the base area from its use as a military installation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13083-B
  • reuse: means an alternative use of the base facility from its use as a military installation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13083-H
  • Revenues: means all fees, charges, money, profits, payments of principal of or interest on municipal securities and other investments, gifts, grants, contributions, appropriations and all other income derived or to be derived by the bank under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5903
  • Reverse repurchase transaction: means a transaction in which an insurer purchases securities from a counter-party that is obligated to repurchase the purchased securities or equivalent securities from the insurer at a specified price, either within a specified period of time or upon demand. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Revolving loan fund: means that revolving loan fund created under section 6006?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5903
  • River herring: means the species Alosa pseudoharengus, commonly called alewife, and Alosa aestivalis, commonly called blueback herring. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Rotation crop: means small grain, soybean or flax grown in rotation with potatoes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012
  • Roth IRA: means a Roth individual retirement account or Roth individual retirement annuity described in Section 408A of the Internal Revenue Code. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 171
  • Roundwood: means logs, bolts and other round sections of wood as they are cut from a tree. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 8881
  • Roundwood processing operation: means sawmills; bolter mills; shingle mills; veneer mills; fence pole and piling making operations; pulp and paper mills; wafer board, particle board and plywood mills; whole tree chippers; commercial fuel wood processors; bark processors; custom processing mills of these products; and log yards established to accumulate logs awaiting shipment to these operations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 8881
  • Run: means the continuous exhibition of a motion picture in a defined geographic area for a specified period of time. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 1901
  • Runaway: means an unmarried child under 18 years of age who is absent from the home of a parent or guardian or other lawful placement without the consent of the parent, guardian or lawful custodian. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4099-D
  • Rural area: means a geographic area that is identified and designated in a municipality's or multimunicipal region's comprehensive plan as an area that is deserving of some level of regulatory protection from unrestricted development for purposes that may include, but are not limited to, supporting agriculture, forestry, mining, open space, erosion mitigation, water retention, wildlife habitat, fisheries habitat and scenic lands, and away from which most development projected over 10 years is diverted. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Sale: includes every contract of purchase or sale, contract to purchase or sell, purchase, sale and disposition of potatoes or rotation crops for value. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012
  • School administrative unit: means the state-approved unit of school administration and includes a municipal school unit, school administrative district, community school district, regional school unit or any other municipal or quasi-municipal corporation responsible for operating or constructing public schools, except that it does not include a career and technical education region. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1
  • Scrap metal: means metal that can be recycled, including, but not limited to, bits and pieces of metal parts that may be combined together with bolts or soldering and can be recycled when worn or superfluous. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3771
  • Scrap metal processor: means a person that purchases scrap metal for resale or recycling. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3771
  • Secondary discounted price: means the initial discounted price minus any further discounts paid for out of the fund. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2681
  • Secretary: means the Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9061
  • Securities lending transaction: means a transaction in which securities are loaned by an insurer to a qualified bank or a qualified business entity or a bank or a business entity whose obligations with respect to such transaction are guaranteed by a qualified bank or a qualified business entity that is obligated to return the loaned securities or equivalent securities to the insurer, either within a specified period of time or upon demand. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Seine: means an ordinary commercial-type minnow seine, not exceeding 1,200 square feet, used vertically to enclose baitfish when its ends are brought together or drawn ashore. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Select board: means the members of the select board of the town or, if the town has no select board, the officers charged with the duties customarily imposed on the select board of a town. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4702
  • sell: means any transfer or delivery of liquor for a consideration. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Seller: means a person who sells or contracts to sell goods. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 2-103
  • Seller: means any person who sells or contracts to sell potatoes or rotation crops in the regular course of business. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012
  • Seller: means any person that receives in a transaction monetary consideration from a scrap metal processor in exchange for nonferrous metal, iron or steel, including stainless steel. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3771
  • Separation zone: means an area that surrounds a clear-cut and separates it from other clear-cuts. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 8868
  • Serious harm: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
  • Serious injury: means serious physical injury or impairment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
  • Seropositivity: means the presence of antibody to HIV as detected by appropriate laboratory tests. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19201
  • Service: means service as an employee for which compensation was paid. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Service center community: means a municipality or group of municipalities identified by the department according to a methodology established by rule that includes 4 basic criteria, including level of retail sales, jobs-to-workers ratio, the amount of federally assisted housing and the volume of service sector jobs. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Service credit: means credit received for creditable service as defined under subsection 10. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • Set line: means a line extending into the water and rigged to catch fish that has one end secured to the shore or to a fixed or buoyant object and that is not personally attended. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Sewage: means the water-carried wastes created in and carried or to be carried away from any structure together with any surface or ground water or household and industrial waste that is present. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001
  • Sewer system: includes both sewers and sewage disposal systems and all property, rights, easements and franchises relating to those sewers and sewage disposal systems. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001
  • Sewers: means and includes mains, pipes and laterals for the reception of sewage and carrying that sewage to an outfall or some part of a sewage disposal system, including pumping stations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001
  • Sexual abuse or sexual exploitation: means contact or interaction of a sexual nature involving an incapacitated or dependent adult without that adult's informed consent. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3472
  • Shade trees: means trees grown, established or used to screen persons or grounds, structures, walks, pools or other similar objects from wind, sunlight, observation or sound. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2173
  • Share exchange: means a business combination pursuant to section 1103. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13-C Sec. 1101
  • Share loan: means an agreement entered into by a member and a lender to finance the member's acquisition of the member's cooperative interest. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1742
  • Shareholder: includes a beneficial owner whose shares are held in a voting trust or held by a nominee on the beneficial owner's behalf. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13-C Sec. 751
  • shell business entity: means a business entity having no economic substance, except as a vehicle for owning interests in assets issued, owned or previously owned by a person domiciled in a foreign jurisdiction; "qualified guarantor" means a guarantor against which an insurer has a direct claim for full and timely payment, evidenced by a contractual right for which an enforcement action can be brought in a domestic jurisdiction; and "qualified primary credit source" means the credit source to which an insurer looks for payment as to an investment and against which an insurer has a direct claim for full and timely payment, evidenced by a contractual right for which an enforcement action can be brought in a domestic jurisdiction. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Shooting zone: means an area within a parcel that is enclosed to contain one or more species of large game. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1341
  • Sign: means , with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Significant economic hardship: means a hardship created for a small business by a monetary penalty or license suspension or revocation imposed by an agency enforcement action that appears likely to result in the:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 90-O
  • Similar circumstances: means conditions that have an effect on a child comparable to abuse, neglect or abandonment, including, but not limited to, the death of a parent. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4099-I
  • Simplified employee pension plan: means a simplified employee pension plan that is in compliance with the provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, as these provisions relate to simplified employee pension plans. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 891
  • Single-baited hook: means a single baited apparatus designed to catch only one fish at a time. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • single-family or multi-unit residential housing: means any work or undertaking:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4702
  • Sinking fund: means a fund created for the purpose of paying a debt. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001
  • Small brewery: means a person that engages in the activities under either paragraph A or B, or both:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Small business: means a business having 50 or fewer employees in the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 90-O
  • Small Business Development Center Program: means the program established by Public Law 96-302, Title II, 15 United States Code §§ 636 and 648, the Small Business Development Center Act of 1980. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13031
  • Small distillery: means a person that engages in the activities under either paragraph A or B, or both:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Small winery: means a person that ferments and ages:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Snagging: means to fish by manipulating a hook or hooks in such a manner as to pierce or snag the fish in a part of the body other than the mouth. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Snowmobile: means a vehicle propelled by mechanical power that is primarily designed to travel over ice or snow and is supported in part by skis, belts or cleats. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Social Security Act: means the Act of Congress approved August 14, 1935, chapter 531, 49 Stat. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19002
  • Source water protection area: means an area that contributes recharge water to a surface water intake or public water supply well for a public drinking water supply. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001
  • Special advocate: means the person appointed pursuant to section 90?P. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 90-O
  • Special deputy: means a person appointed under section 382 who may exercise the powers of a deputy only when a state of war or emergency exists. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 351
  • Species: means any recognized taxonomic category of the biota including species, subspecies or variety. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 544
  • Species of special concern: means a species of fish or wildlife that is not an endangered species or a threatened species but meets criteria for being of special concern as established by the commissioner by rule under section 10105, subsection 19. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Specified tax-favored retirement plan: means a plan, program or arrangement that is tax-qualified under or described in, and satisfies the requirements of, Section 401(a), Section 401(k), Section 403(a), Section 403(b), Section 408(k), Section 408(p) or Section 457(b) of the Internal Revenue Code, without regard to whether it constitutes an employee benefit plan under ERISA. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 171
  • Spirits: means any liquor produced by distillation or, if produced by any other process, strengthened or fortified by the addition of spirits of any kind. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Sporting dogs: means sporting dogs as defined by the American Kennel Club, including pointers, retrievers, setters, spaniels, Vizslas, Weimaraners and wirehaired pointing griffons. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Spouse: means the person currently legally married to a member. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Stabilization fund: means the Maine Budget Stabilization Fund established in this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1531
  • State administrative agency: means the department that has been approved or conditionally approved to carry out the state plan for enforcement of the standards pursuant to section 623 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, Public Law 93-383, 42 United States Code § 5422 and Title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 3282, Subpart G. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9061
  • State agency: means any body of State Government authorized by law to adopt rules, to issue licenses or to take final action in adjudicatory proceedings, including, but not limited to, every authority, board, bureau, commission, department or officer of the State Government so authorized; but the term does not include the Governor, courts, University of Maine System, Maine Maritime Academy, school districts, special purpose districts or municipalities, counties or other political subdivisions of the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1552
  • State agency: shall mean each department and agency of State Government required to comply with chapter 149, except that the term "state agency" shall not include the University of Maine System or the Maine Maritime Academy. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1706
  • State agency: means an agency of State Government as defined in section 8002, subsection 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1782
  • state agency: means the Maine Public Employees Retirement System. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19002
  • state authority: means the Maine State Housing Authority. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5002
  • State average weekly wage: means the average weekly wage as published by the Department of Labor for the State as a whole for the 12 most recently reported months preceding the date of application. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • State board: means the State Board of Education. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1
  • State Development Office: means the Department of Economic and Community Development. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13054
  • State employee: means any employee of an agency, independent agency or parts of agencies which receive support from the General Fund or that are established, created or incorporated by reference to the laws, except nonpartisan staff of the Legislature. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 21
  • State employee: means any regular classified or unclassified officer or employee in a department, any employee of the Maine Community College System except those who make the election provided under Title 20?A, section 12722, any employee of the Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf except as provided in Title 20?A, section 7407, subsection 3?A, any employee of the Maine Military Authority, any employee of the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority, any employee of the Maine Port Authority, any employee of the Efficiency Maine Trust who on June 30, 2009 is an employee of the Public Utilities Commission energy efficiency or renewable energy programs who elects to remain a state employee, any employee of the Efficiency Maine Trust who accepts employment with the Efficiency Maine Trust prior to July 1, 2010 who was a state employee immediately prior to accepting such employment who elects to remain a state employee and any employee transferred from the Division of Higher Education Services to the Finance Authority of Maine who elects to be treated as a state employee, but does not include:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • State employee health insurance program: means the state employee health insurance program provided under Title 5, section 285. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2685
  • State of principal use: means the state on whose waters a watercraft is used or to be used most during a calendar year. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • State paper: means the newspaper designated by the Legislature, in which advertisements and notices are required to be published. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • State property: includes property purchased with funds, such as fees for conferences and seminars conducted by a state agency, received by or on behalf of the State or any department or agency outside of the normal system of accounts and controls. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 20
  • State public body: means any city, town, district or other political subdivision of the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4702
  • State strategic economic improvement plan: means the long-term economic plan for the State's economy developed by the Maine Economic Growth Council pursuant to Title 10, section 929?A, subsection 1. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13070-J
  • State tax increment: means the net annual gain, if any, in sales tax paid as a result of taxable events occurring within a state tax increment financing district and the net annual gain, if any, in state income taxes withheld as a result of wages paid for labor performed within the district. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5241
  • State tax increment financing district: means a type of tax increment financing district, or portion of a district, that uses state tax increment financing under section 5242. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5241
  • State unemployment rate: means the average unemployment rate published by the Department of Labor for the State as a whole for the 12 most recently reported months preceding the date of application. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • Statewide AIDS alliance: means a statewide coalition of community-based AIDS organizations having at least one representative from each member organization. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19251
  • Statewide Coordinating Council for Public Health: means the council established under Title 5, section 12004?G, subsection 14?G. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 411
  • Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
  • Stewardship account: means an account held separate and apart from all other money, funds and accounts of a state agency for the purposes of management of land owned in fee or less-than-fee simple meeting the criteria established in section 6207. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 6201
  • Stipend: means an amount distributed from the Stipend Fund or the Fair Fund to a qualifying fair licensee. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 81
  • Stipend Fund: means the fund receiving money in accordance with Title 8, sections 286 and 287 to provide aid and encouragement to fair licensees. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 81
  • Store: means a grocery store, dairy product store, canteen, milk vending machine operator, milk dispensing operator or any similar commercial establishment or outlet or any other sale where milk is sold to consumers for consumption off the premises where sold. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2951
  • Store: means a grocery store, dairy products' store, canteen, milk vending machine operator, milk dispensing operator or any similar commercial establishment or outlet or any other place or method of sale in which milk is sold to consumers for consumption off the premises. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2991
  • Stumpage: means standing timber. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 8881
  • Sub-dealer: means any person who does not process milk and who purchases milk from a dealer and sells such milk in the same containers in which the person purchased it, but does not include a store. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2951
  • Subdivision: means the division of a tract or parcel of land into 3 or more lots within any 5-year period that begins on or after September 23, 1971. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4401
  • Sublease: means a lease of goods the right to possession and use of which was acquired by the lessor as a lessee under an existing lease. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 2-1103
  • Submerged lands: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1801
  • Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
  • Subscription agreement: means a written agreement between a prospective member and a cooperative affordable housing corporation for the purchase and sale of a cooperative interest. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1742
  • Subsidiary: has the meaning as prescribed in section 222, subsection 2, paragraph F. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Successor business: means a business that has acquired the organization, trade or business, or 50% or more of the assets of the organization, trade or business, of another taxpayer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 13080-P
  • Sucker: means only the species Catostomus commersoni (white sucker) and the species Catostomus catostomus (longnose sucker). See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Sunrise: means the time computed and established for sunrise for Bangor, Maine, by the Nautical Almanac Office of the United States Naval Observatory, converted to the legal standard of time in force in this State on that day. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Sunset: means the time computed and established for sunset for Bangor, Maine, by the Nautical Almanac Office of the United States Naval Observatory, converted to the legal standard of time in force in this State on that day. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Supervisor: means a commissioner, bureau chief, director, manager or any other person who oversees or supervises state employees in their employment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 21
  • Supplier: means a person from whom a lessor buys or leases goods to be leased under a finance lease. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 2-1103
  • Supply chain: means the chain of distribution by which agricultural, food and forest products are moved from the producer to the consumer and may include intermediate entities, including aggregators of various products, manufacturers, value-added producers, processors, packagers, warehouse operators and other storage entities, distributors, wholesalers and retailers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 320-A
  • Supply contract: means a contract under which a lessor buys or leases goods to be leased. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 2-1103
  • Surimi: means an intermediate manufactured seafood product derived from minced fish meat, washed to remove water-soluble protein, blood or other undesirable components and mixed with additives, containing sugars or sodium, or both, to enhance its frozen storage and functional characteristics. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 6111
  • Surviving spouse: means the spouse alive at the time of the death of the member or former member. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Suspected child abuse and neglect committee: means a committee representing public and private community agencies, hospital departments and the department which are directly involved in providing services to suspected victims of child abuse and the victims' families. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4092
  • Suspicious child death: means the death of a child under circumstances in which there is reasonable cause to suspect that abuse or neglect was a cause of or factor contributing to the child's death. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
  • Sustained yield: means the achievement and maintenance in perpetuity of a high-level regular periodic output of the various renewable resources of the nonreserved public lands without impairing the productivity of the land. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1831
  • Sustained yield: means the achievement and maintenance in perpetuity of a high-level regular periodic output of the various renewable resources of the public reserved lands without impairing the productivity of the land. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1845
  • Swap: means an agreement to exchange or to net payments at one or more times based on the actual or expected price, yield, level, performance or value of one or more underlying interests. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • System: means the Maine Public Employees Retirement System. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17431
  • System: means the Maine Community College System, established by chapter 431. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 9000
  • Takes down or fells: means the cutting for removal of any part of a tree by topping or sections or felling the tree whole. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2173
  • Tangible personal property: includes motor vehicles, but does not include documents evidencing title to motor vehicles. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3960
  • Targeted technology business: means a business primarily involved in a targeted technology as defined in Title 5, section 15301. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • Tavern: means a place where malt liquor may be sold at tables, booths and counters. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Tax: means the total amount required to be paid, withheld and paid over or collected and paid over with respect to estimated or actual tax liability under this Title, any credit or reimbursement allowed or paid pursuant to this Title that is recoverable by the assessor and any amount assessed by the assessor pursuant to this Title, including any interest or penalties provided by law. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111
  • Tax collector: shall mean any person chosen, appointed or designated by a municipality or the officers thereof to collect any tax due a municipality; or his successor in office. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 501
  • Tax increment: means real and personal property taxes assessed by a municipality or plantation, in excess of any state, county or special district tax, upon the increased assessed value of property in the development district. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Tax increment: means real property taxes assessed by a municipality, in excess of any state, county or special district tax, upon the increased assessed value of property in the affordable housing development district. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5246
  • Tax increment financing district: means a type of development district, or portion of a district, that uses tax increment financing under section 5227. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Tax increment financing district: means a type of development district, or portion of a district, that uses tax increment financing under section 5227. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5241
  • Tax shifts: means the effect on a municipality's or plantation's state revenue sharing, education subsidies and county tax obligations that results from the designation of a tax increment financing district and the capture of increased assessed value. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Tax shifts: means the effect on a municipality's state revenue sharing, education subsidies and county tax obligations that results from the designation of an affordable housing development district and the capture of increased assessed value. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5246
  • Tax year: means the period of time beginning on April 1st and ending on the succeeding March 31st. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Tax year: means the period of time beginning on April 1st and ending on the succeeding March 31st. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5246
  • Taxpayer: means any person required to file a return under this Title or to pay, withhold and pay over or collect and pay over any tax imposed by this Title. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111
  • Teacher: includes a person who is on a one-year leave of absence from a position as a teacher and is participating in the education of prospective teachers by teaching and supervising students enrolled in college-level teacher preparation programs in this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
  • Telecommunications: means , but is not limited to, the process of transmitting and receiving any information, including voice, data and video, by any medium, including wire, microwave, fiberoptics, radio, laser and satellite. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1972
  • Telos Dam Lot: means a certain lot or parcel of land situated in Township 6, Range 11, WELS, being known as the Telos Dam Lot, being a square lot 20 chains on each side. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1872
  • Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Theater: means any establishment in which motion pictures are exhibited to the public regularly for a charge. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 1901
  • Threatened species: means a species of fish or wildlife that has been determined by the commissioner as likely to become an endangered species within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range and that is listed as a state threatened species under section 12803, subsection 3. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Timber and grass: when used in reference to the public reserved lots, so called, in unorganized territory in the State, means all growth of every description on said lots. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Timber harvesting: means the cutting or removal of trees or forest products that when cut or removed are transported to a roundwood processing operation, as defined in section 8881, subsection 10. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 8868
  • Timber harvesting operation: means the cutting and removal of trees from their growing site and the attendant operation of mobile or portable chipping mills and of cutting and skidding machinery, including the creation and use of skid trails, skid roads and winter haul roads and the construction or creation of land management roads. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1872
  • Tobacco products: means any form of tobacco and any material or device used in the smoking, chewing or other form of tobacco consumption, including cigarette papers and pipes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 271
  • 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.
  • Tract or parcel of land: means all contiguous land in the same ownership, except that lands located on opposite sides of a public or private road are considered each a separate tract or parcel of land unless the road was established by the owner of land on both sides of the road after September 22, 1971. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4401
  • Traditional IRA: means a traditional individual retirement account or traditional individual retirement annuity described in Section 408(a) or Section 408(b) of the Internal Revenue Code. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 171
  • Traditional muzzleloader: means a firearm that:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Trafficked person: means a victim of a human trafficking offense. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 4701
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Transfer station: means any place, premises or establishment where milk or milk products are transferred directly from one milk transport tank to another. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2900
  • Transferable interest: means the right under an entity's organic law to receive distributions from the entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102
  • Transit: means transportation systems in which people are conveyed by means other than their own vehicles, including, but not limited to, bus systems, street cars, light rail and other rail systems. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Transit facility: means a place providing access to transit services, including, but not limited to, bus stops, bus stations, interchanges on a highway used by one or more transit providers, ferry landings, train stations, shuttle terminals and bus rapid transit stops. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Transit-oriented development: means a type of development that links land use with transit facilities to support and be supported by a transit system. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Transit-oriented development area: means an area of any shape such that no part of the perimeter is more than 1/4 mile from an existing or planned transit facility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Transit-oriented development corridor: means a strip of land of any length and up to 500 feet on either side of a roadway serving as a principal transit route. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Transit-oriented development district: means a tax increment financing district consisting of a transit-oriented development area or a transit-oriented development corridor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5222
  • Transitional area: means an area that is designated in a municipality's or multimunicipal region's comprehensive plan as suitable for a share of projected residential, commercial or industrial development but that is neither intended to accept the amount or density of development appropriate for a growth area nor intended to provide the level of protection for rural resources afforded in a rural area or critical rural area. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301
  • Trap: means a device that is designed primarily to catch or hold wild animals, including, but not limited to, a foothold trap, a killer-type trap, a cage-type trap or a snare. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Trap net: means a funnel-shaped net designed to intercept and retain fish in a confined space. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Treats or cares for: means the pruning, trimming and shaping of trees when the care requires the person to leave the ground. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2173
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Tribal district: means an administrative district established in a memorandum of understanding or legal contract among all Indian tribes in the State that is recognized by the department. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 411
  • Tribal health department or health clinic: means a health department or health clinic managed by an Indian tribe that is eligible for funds from the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian Health Service and other federal funds. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 411
  • tribe: means a federally recognized Indian nation, tribe or band in the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 411
  • Tributary: means a brook, stream or river flowing directly or indirectly into a lake, pond or another brook, stream or river. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Troll: means to fish by trailing a line rigged to catch fish behind a watercraft being propelled by mechanical, wind or manual power. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Trustor: The person who makes or creates a trust. Also known as the grantor or settlor.
  • Underlying interest: means the assets, liabilities or other interests, or a combination of those assets, liabilities or interests, underlying a derivative instrument, such as any one or more securities, currencies, rates, indices, commodities or derivative instruments that are or relate to investments or investment practices that an insurer is permitted to acquire or engage in pursuant to this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Undue adverse impact: means that, within the comprehensive economic impact area, the estimated overall negative effects on the factors listed for consideration in section 4367, subsection 4 outweigh the estimated overall positive effects on those factors. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4366
  • Undue influence: means the misuse of real or apparent authority or the use of manipulation by a person in a trusting, confidential or fiduciary relationship with a person who is a dependent adult or an incapacitated adult. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3472
  • Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. Source: OCC
  • Unincorporated place: means a place which is not incorporated as a municipality. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Unit: means a portion of the cooperative property leased for exclusive occupancy by a member under a proprietary lease or leased to a tenant by lease agreement. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1742
  • Unit of local government: means a municipality, county, plantation, unorganized territory or Indian tribe. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • United States: when used to signify place includes those geographical areas and the lands and waters adjacent to those geographical areas under the jurisdiction of the United States. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1110
  • United States: when used to signify place means those lands and waters under the jurisdiction of the United States. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.
  • Upland game species: includes bobwhite quail, gray squirrel, porcupine, ring-necked pheasant, ruffed grouse, snowshoe hare, spruce grouse and woodchuck. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Use: means an activity of any form, kind or description. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1872
  • Use: means , with respect to watercraft, operate, navigate or employ. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
  • Utilization rate: means the percentage of milk produced that is used as Class I or fluid milk, the percentage of milk produced that is used as Class II milk and the percentage of milk that is used as Class III milk. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • valid permit: means a license or permit lawfully obtained in the licensee's or permittee's name and signed by that person. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Value-added: means changing the physical state or form of a product through processing or manufacturing to enhance or increase the product's value, including making the product suitable to generate renewable energy. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 320-A
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
  • Verified complaint: means a writing signed by a person, who, under oath, swears that the person has reason to believe that a person required to be licensed under this Article has violated one or more of the provisions of this Article or of the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, setting forth a short and plain statement of the allegations that are the basis for such belief. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012
  • Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
  • Victim advocate: work with prosecutors and assist the victims of a crime.
  • Viral positivity: means demonstrated presence of HIV. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19201
  • Visible from the watercourse: means able to be seen by a person at any point on the watercourse from Churchill Dam north without the aid of any magnifying devices. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1872
  • Voir dire: The process by which judges and lawyers select a petit jury from among those eligible to serve, by questioning them to determine knowledge of the facts of the case and a willingness to decide the case only on the evidence presented in court. "Voir dire" is a phrase meaning "to speak the truth."
  • Voter: means a person registered to vote. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001
  • Wages: means any compensation within the meaning of Section 219(f)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code that is received by an employee from an employer during a calendar year. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 171
  • wages: means all remuneration for employment as defined, including the cash value of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash, except that such term shall not include that part of such remuneration which, even if it were for "employment" within the meaning of the Federal Insurance Contributions Act, would not constitute "wages" within the meaning of that Act. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19002
  • Warrant: means an instrument that gives the holder the right to purchase or sell the underlying interest at a given price and time or at a series of prices and times outlined in the warrant agreement. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1151-A
  • Water safety zone: means the area of water within 200 feet of shoreline, whether the shoreline of the mainland or of an island. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Water treatment company: means a company that installs or services water treatment equipment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2660-FF
  • Water treatment equipment: means equipment located inside a private residence and designed to alter the condition of water for human consumption, including by means of filtration, purification, softening and reverse osmosis. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2660-FF
  • Water utility: means an entity as defined in Title 35?A, section 102, subsection 22. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5903
  • Watercourse: means the bodies of water consisting of lakes, rivers and streams extending from Telos Lake Dam northerly to the confluence of West Twin Brook and Allagash River, a distance of approximately 85 miles, and bodies of water consisting of lakes and streams extending from where Allagash Stream crosses the west boundary of T. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1872
  • Watercraft: means any type of vessel, boat, canoe or craft used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on waters, other than a seaplane. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1872
  • Watercraft: means any type of vessel, boat, canoe or craft capable of being used as a means of transportation on water, other than a seaplane, including motors, electronic and mechanical equipment and other machinery, whether permanently or temporarily attached, that are customarily used in the operations of the watercraft. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Waters of this State: means all internal waters and all federal waters within the jurisdiction of the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 13001
  • Weir: means a device placed in the inland waters of a river, stream or brook that is designed to entrap fish and that exceeds more than 1/3 of the wetted width of the channel. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Whips: Assistants to the floor leaders who are also elected by their party conferences. The Majority and Minority Whips (and their assistants) are responsible for mobilizing votes within their parties on major issues. In the absence of a party floor leader, the whip often serves as acting floor leader.
  • Whitewater craft: means any raft, dory, bateau or similar watercraft that is used to transport passengers along rapidly flowing rivers but does not include canoes or kayaks. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 12901
  • Whitewater guide: means a person who receives any remuneration from a commercial whitewater outfitter for accompanying, assisting or instructing clients of that commercial whitewater outfitter on the river on whitewater trips and who holds a current whitewater guide's license. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 12901
  • Whitewater trip: means a commercial effort to transport passengers by means of a whitewater craft on rapidly flowing rivers, except commercial efforts by guides licensed under section 12853 to transport clients by means of a whitewater craft on rapidly flowing rivers while principally engaged in fishing. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 12901
  • Wholesale licensee: means a person licensed by the bureau under section 1401 as an in-state wholesaler. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Wholesale or jobbing quantities: means aggregate quantities of potatoes totalling 25 tons, that is, 50,000 pounds, or more in weight purchased or contracted to be purchased in any calendar month. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012
  • Wholesale sale: means sale to any other person not included in retail. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2951
  • Wholesale spirits provider: means a person that has a contract under section 90 to serve as an agent of the State for the purpose of providing wholesale spirits to establishments licensed by the State to sell spirits for off-premises consumption. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Wild animal: means a species of mammal, wild by nature, whether or not bred or reared in captivity, as distinguished from the common domestic animals, and includes any physical part of that species of animal. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Wild bird: means a species of bird wild by nature, whether or not bred or reared in captivity, as distinguished from common domestic birds, and includes any physical part of that species of bird. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Wildlife: includes wild animals and wild birds. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Wildlife exhibit: means a place where wildlife is kept in captivity, either in an enclosure or by tether, upon any street or highway or upon land, public or private, for the evident purpose of exhibition or attracting trade. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Wildlife management: means the art or science of producing wild animals and birds and of improving wildlife conditions in the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Wildlife management area: means a tract of land or body of water owned or leased by the department for the purposes of wildlife management as defined in subsection 73 or created by an act of the Legislature with the landowner's permission, and subject to the commissioner's authority under section 12701. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • Wine: includes , but is not limited to, hard cider, wine coolers, table wine, still wine, sparkling wine, champagne and fortified wine that do not contain more than 24% alcohol by volume. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Winery: means a person that ferments and ages wine. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Wolf: means the Gray Wolf (Canis lupus). See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001
  • working farmland property: means land managed as a farm and available for commercial production of agricultural products, as defined in Title 7, section 152, subsection 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 6201
  • Working waterfront: means a parcel of land abutting water subject to tidal influence or land located in the intertidal zone that is used primarily or predominantly to provide access to or support the conduct of commercial fishing and marine activities. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • Working waterfront industry: means an industry primarily involved in supporting commercial fishing, marine and boat building activities. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • working waterfront property: means land, legally filled lands and piers and wharves and other improvements to land adjacent to the navigable coastal waters of the State and used by a commercial fisheries business. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 6201
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
  • Written notice of allocation: means a written instrument which discloses to a member the stated dollar amount of that member's patronage allocation and the terms for payment of that amount by the employee cooperative. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1972
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Young children: means children from birth until they complete grade 3. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 24051
  • zone: means a specified area within the boundaries of the State that has been designated by the commissioner as a Pine Tree Development Zone in accordance with section 5250?J, subsection 3?A or 3?B. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5250-I
  • Zoning ordinance: means a type of land use ordinance that divides a municipality into districts and that prescribes and reasonably applies different regulations in each district. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 4301