Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 20-A > Part 2 > Chapter 103-A > Subchapter 5 - Referendum

• Agent: means a person or that person's representative who has been licensed under this chapter to sell lottery tickets on behalf of the State from the physical premises of the licensee's retail business establishment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 8 Sec. 371
• Agent: means an individual appointed to serve in the capacity of a superintendent. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1
• 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.
• 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
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Billing period: means the time period for payment agreed to by 2 parties or, in the absence of an agreement, the calendar month within which work is performed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 1111
• Board of directors: means the governing body with statutory powers and duties for a school administrative district. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1
• Bureau: means the Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations within the Department of Administrative and Financial Services to carry out the purposes of this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 8 Sec. 371
• Commission: means the State Liquor and Lottery Commission established in Title 5, section 283?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 8 Sec. 371
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Education or the commissioner's designee. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Construction contract: means any agreement, whether written or oral, to perform or to supply materials for work on any real property. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 1111
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contractor: means a person or entity that contracts with an owner to perform work on real property. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 1111
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Delivery: means receipt by addressee, including, but not limited to, by first class, registered or certified mail, or by hand delivery or transmitted by facsimile machine. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 1111
• Director: means the Director of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 8 Sec. 371
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• 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.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• in writing: include printing and other modes of making legible words. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• lands: includes lands and all tenements and hereditaments connected therewith, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Majority: when used in reference to age shall mean the age of 18 and over. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• Material supplier: means any person or entity that has furnished or contracted to furnish materials or supplies in connection with a construction contract. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 1111
• Month: means a calendar month. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• 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
• Municipality: includes cities, towns and plantations, except that "municipality" does not include plantations in Title 10, chapter 110, subchapter IV; or Title 30?A, Part 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• 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.
• Owner: includes successors in interest of the owner and agents of the owner acting within their authority. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 1111
• Person: means an individual, association, corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, partnership, club, trust, estate, society, company, receiver, trustee, assignee, referee or other person acting in a fiduciary or representative capacity, whether appointed by a court or otherwise, and any combination of individuals. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 8 Sec. 371
• 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.
• Previous education unit: means a state-approved unit of school administration that was responsible for operating or constructing public schools prior to the reorganization of school administrative units pursuant to chapter 103?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1
• Principal: means the person who supervises the operation and management of a school and school property as determined necessary by the superintendent under policies established by the school board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• 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 property: means real estate, including lands, leaseholds, tenements and hereditaments and improvements placed on real estate. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 1111
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Regional school unit: means the state-approved unit of school administration as established pursuant to chapter 103?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1
• Regional school unit board: means the board of directors that is the governing body with statutory powers and duties of a regional school unit. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Subcontractor: means any person or entity that has contracted to perform work for or provide services to a contractor or another subcontractor in connection with a construction contract. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 1111
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Town: includes cities and plantations, unless otherwise expressed or implied. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• United States: includes territories and the District of Columbia. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• Work: means to build, alter, repair or demolish any improvement on, connected with or beneath the surface of any real property, or to excavate, clear, grade, fill or landscape any real property, to construct driveways, private roadways, highways and bridges, drilled wells, septic systems, sewage systems or utilities, to furnish materials for any of those purposes or to perform labor upon real property. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 1111
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72