Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 22 > Subtitle 2 > Part 4 > Chapter 403 - Town Hospitals

• 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.
• Broker: means a person defined as a broker or dealer under the federal securities laws, but without excluding a bank acting in that capacity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 8-1102
• Certificated security: means a security that is represented by a certificate. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 8-1102
• Clearing corporation: means :
  (i) A person that is registered as a "clearing agency" under the federal securities laws;
  (ii) A federal reserve bank; or
  (iii) Any other person that provides clearance or settlement services with respect to financial assets that would require it to register as a clearing agency under the federal securities laws but for an exclusion or exemption from the registration requirement, if its activities as a clearing corporation, including adoption of rules, are subject to regulation by a federal or state governmental authority. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 8-1102
• Department: means the Department of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 1-A
• 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.
• Entitlement holder: means a person identified in the records of a securities intermediary as the person having a security entitlement against the securities intermediary. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 8-1102
• Financial asset: except as otherwise provided in section 8?1103, means:
  (i) A security;
  (ii) An obligation of a person or a share, participation or other interest in a person or in property or an enterprise of a person that is, or is of a type, dealt in or traded on financial markets or that is recognized in any area in which it is issued or dealt in as a medium for investment; or
  (iii) Any property that is held by a securities intermediary for another person in a securities account if the securities intermediary has expressly agreed with the other person that the property is to be treated as a financial asset under this Article. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 8-1102
• Indorsement: means a signature that alone or accompanied by other words is made on a security certificate in registered form or on a separate document for the purpose of assigning, transferring or redeeming the security or granting a power to assign, transfer or redeem it. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 8-1102
• 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
• Securities intermediary: means :
  (i) A clearing corporation; or
  (ii) A person, including a bank or broker, that in the ordinary course of its business maintains securities accounts for others and is acting in that capacity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 8-1102
• Security: except as otherwise provided in section 8?1103, means an obligation of an issuer or a share, participation or other interest in an issuer or in property or an enterprise of an issuer:
  (i) That is represented by a security certificate in bearer or registered form or the transfer of which may be registered upon books maintained for that purpose by or on behalf of the issuer;
  (ii) That is one of a class or series or by its terms is divisible into a class or series of shares, participations, interests or obligations; and
  (iii) That:

  (A) Is, or is of a type, dealt in or traded on securities exchanges or securities markets; or

  (B) Is a medium for investment and by its terms expressly provides that it is a security governed by this Article. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 8-1102
• Security certificate: means a certificate representing a security. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 8-1102
• Security entitlement: means the rights and property interest of an entitlement holder with respect to a financial asset specified in Part 5. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 8-1102
• 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.
• Uncertificated security: means a security that is not represented by a certificate. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 8-1102