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- 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 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
- Accredited: means an educational institution that is approved by the United States Department of Education or a regional or national accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1521
- Actuary: means a member of the American Academy of Actuaries who is also a member of the Society of Actuaries or the Casualty Actuarial Society and is qualified to sign a statement of actuarial opinion. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201
- Acute pain: means pain that is the normal, predicted physiological response to a noxious chemical or thermal or mechanical stimulus. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7246
- Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
- Administer: means an action to apply a prescription drug directly to a person by any means by a licensed or certified health care professional acting within that professional's scope of practice. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7246
- Adult: means a person 18 years of age or over. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003
- Adult: means a person who has attained the age of 18 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- Adult day care: means an ongoing program of health, social, maintenance and rehabilitative services available to persons needing this level of service, as determined by an assessment of their functional abilities and need for health and social services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 6202
- Adults with long-term care needs: means adults who have physical or mental limitations which restrict their ability to carry out activities of daily living and impede their ability to live independently, or who are at risk of being placed, or who already have been placed in an institutional setting. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 6202
- Advanced emergency medical person: means an emergency medical services person licensed to perform advanced emergency medical treatment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83
- Adverse result: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 16 Sec. 638Adverse result: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 16 Sec. 641Advice 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. 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. 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 Aggravating factor: means any of the following circumstances with regard to the parent. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002 Agreement: means a contract, grant or other method of payment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 6202 Agreement: means a commercial relationship, not required to be evidenced in writing, of definite or indefinite duration, between a certificate of approval holder and a wholesale licensee, under which the wholesale licensee is authorized to distribute one or more of the certificate of approval holder's brands of malt liquor, wine or beverages. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 1451 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 Allegation: something that someone says happened. Ambulance: means any vehicle, whether an air, ground or water vehicle, that is designed, constructed or routinely used or intended to be used for the transportation of ill or injured persons. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Ambulance service: means any person, persons or organization that holds itself out to be a provider of transportation of ill or injured persons or that routinely provides transportation for ill or injured persons. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it. American Sign Language proficiency interview: means a holistic language evaluation that is used to determine global American Sign Language proficiency and that is administered by an educational testing service organization and evaluated by an American Sign Language evaluation service organization recognized by the director. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1521 Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments. 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. 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. Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal. 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. 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 Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority. Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account. 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 Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court. 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 Authentication: means the process of verifying the identity and credentials of a person before authorizing access to prescription data. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7262 Authorized: means the granting of access privileges to prescription data. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7262 Average final compensation: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001Bail: 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. 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. Basic emergency medical services person: means a person licensed to perform basic emergency medical treatment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 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 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 Bequest: Property gifted by will. 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 Emergency Medical Services' Board established pursuant to section 88. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Board: means the Board of Environmental Protection. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1741 Board: means the Board of Examiners in Physical Therapy as created in section 3112. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3111 Board: means the Board of Environmental Protection. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 4171 bottle: means to package spirits, wine or malt liquor for sale in containers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 Bottle club: means a person operating on a regular, profit or nonprofit basis a facility for social activities in which members or guests provide their own liquor, where no liquor is sold on the bottle club premises, which maintains suitable facilities for the use of members on a regular basis or charges an admission fee to members or the general public and where members, guests or others are regularly permitted to consume liquor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 Bottler: means a person that packages spirits, wine or malt liquor for sale in containers and is not engaged in distilling, brewing, fermenting or rectifying liquor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 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. 2Bureau: means the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 Business entity: means a partnership, corporation, firm, association or other legal entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 Bylaws: means those bylaws established by the interstate commission pursuant to section 7268 for its governance or for directing or controlling its actions and conduct. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7262 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 Cable television system: means any facility that, in whole or in part, receives directly or indirectly over the air, amplifies or otherwise modifies the signals transmitting programs broadcast by one or more television or radio stations and distributes those signals by wire or cable to subscribing members of the public who pay for that service. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001 Campsite: means a camping location containing tents, registered tent trailers, registered pickup campers, registered recreational vehicles, registered trailers or similar devices used for camping. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 682 Case plan prescription: means a plan developed by the family support team. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4092 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 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 Cave life: means any life-form normally found in a cave. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 544-J Certificate: means the document issued by the commissioner to a person indicating that the person is certified by the State as qualified to perform the job indicated in that document. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1371 Certificate: means a certificate of competency issued by the department stating that an applicant has met the requirements for the specified operator classification. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 4171 Certificate of approval holder: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2certificate of approval holder: means an in-state manufacturer of malt liquor or wine licensed under section 1355?A or an out-of-state manufacturer of or out-of-state wholesaler of malt liquor or wine that has been issued a certificate of approval under section 1361. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 1401-A certificate of approval holder: means an in-state manufacturer of malt liquor or wine licensed under section 1355?A or an out-of-state manufacturer of or out-of-state wholesaler of malt liquor or wine that has been issued a certificate of approval under section 1361. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 1451 Certified responsible managing supervisor: means a person certified by the State as qualified to determine whether the plan and installation of fire sprinkler systems meet the standards provided by law, rule and regulation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1371 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 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 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 Chronic pain: means pain that persists beyond the usual course of an acute disease or healing of an injury. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7246 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 forfeiture: The loss of ownership of property used to conduct illegal activity. 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 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 Client company: means a person, association, partnership, corporation or other entity that leases employees from an employee leasing company pursuant to contract. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14051 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 Commercial clerk: means a clerk who is listed under section 106. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102 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 sporting camp: means a building or group of buildings devoted primarily to the offering of primitive lodging facilities for a fee to persons primarily in pursuit of primitive recreation or snowmobiling. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 682 commission: means the Interstate Prescription Monitoring Program Commission created pursuant to section 7266. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7262 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 Public Safety. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Public Safety. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1371 Commissioner: means Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14301 Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Environmental Protection. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1741 Commissioner: means the voting representative appointed by each member state pursuant to section 7266. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7262 Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 544 Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Administrative and Financial Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1801 Commit: means to transfer legal custody. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 Common consumption area: means an area designated as a common area within an entertainment district in which customers of more than one common consumption area licensee are permitted to consume spirits, wine and malt liquor sold by the common consumption area licensees. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 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. Community Reinvestment Act: The Act is intended to encourage depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. It was enacted by the Congress in 1977. Source: OCC Community-based offshore wind energy project: means a wind energy development, as defined by Title 35?A, section 3451, subsection 11, with an aggregate generating capacity of less than 3 megawatts that meets the following criteria: the generating facilities are wholly or partially located on or above the coastal submerged lands of the State; the generating facilities are located within one nautical mile of one or more islands that are within the unorganized and deorganized areas of the State and the project will offset part or all of the electricity requirements of those island communities; and the development meets the definition of "community-based renewable energy project" as defined by Title 35?A, section 3602, subsection 1. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 682 Community-based program: means a program of adult day care offered outside of a long-term health care facility and which meets the licensing and program standards of the Department of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 6202 Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant. Conditional license: means a license granted to an applicant who has met the requirements of section 1524?C but who is not certified with the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1521 Content information: when used with respect to any wire, oral or electronic communication, includes any information concerning the substance, purport or meaning of that communication. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 16 Sec. 641 Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time. Continuing care: means furnishing shelter for the life of the individual or for a period in excess of one year and either health care, supportive services, or both, under an agreement requiring prepayment as defined in subsection 12, whether or not the shelter and services are provided at the same location, to 3 or more older individuals not related by blood or marriage to the providers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201 Continuing care agreement: means the contract or contracts which create the obligation to provide continuing care, including, but not limited to, mutually terminable contracts. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201 Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed. Controlled substance: means a controlled substance included in schedules II, III or IV of 21 United States Code § 812 or 21 C. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7246 Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant. Corporation: means a corporation organized and incorporated under the laws of the State or authorized to transact business within the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 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 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 Credible scientific evidence: means the results of a study, the experimental design and conduct of which have undergone independent scientific peer review, that are published in a peer-reviewed journal or in a publication of an authoritative federal or international governmental agency, including but not limited to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, National Toxicology Program, Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the United States Environmental Protection Agency; the World Health Organization; and the European Union, European Chemicals Agency. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1741 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 Criminal record information system: means a system including equipment, facilities, procedures and agreements for the collection, processing, preservation and dissemination of criminal record information including criminal history record information. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 16 Sec. 632 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 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 Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries. De minimis level: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1741Deaf interpreter: means a person whose sense of hearing is nonfunctional for the purpose of communication, whose primary means of communication is visual or tactile and who provides intermediary interpreting. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1521 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. Department: means the Department of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201 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 Public Safety. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Department: means the Department of Public Safety. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1371 Department: means Department of Professional and Financial Regulation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14301 Department: means the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1521 Department: means the Department of Environmental Protection. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1732 Department: means the Department of Environmental Protection. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1741 Department: means the Department of Environmental Protection. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 4171 Department: means the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1801 Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another. Dependent child: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001Deposition: 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. Detention: means the holding of a person in a facility characterized by either physically restrictive construction or intensive staff supervision that is intended to prevent a person who is placed in or admitted to the facility from departing at will. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 Development: means all of the methods used in the preparation of a known and presumed economically extractable ore deposit for mining. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 549-A Devise: To gift property by will. Direction: means continuing verbal and written contact by a physical therapist with a physical therapist assistant including periodic on-site supervision adequate to ensure the safety and welfare of the patient. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3111 Director: means the Director of Maine Emergency Medical Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Director: means the Director of the Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation within the department. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1521 Director: means the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1801 Director of the survey: means the executive head of the survey under section 543, subsection 1. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 549-A Disc golf course: means a commercially operated facility that offers disc golfing facilities to the public for a fee and that has adequate facilities for the sale and consumption of liquor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 Disclosure: means the transmission of information contained in juvenile case records by any means, including orally, in writing or electronically, upon request. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial. Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source: Dispenser: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7246Dispositional hearing: means a hearing to determine what order of disposition should be made concerning a juvenile who has been adjudicated as having committed a juvenile crime. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 Dissemination: means release of, transmission in any manner of and access to information contained in juvenile case records expressly authorized by statute, executive order, court rule, court decision or court order. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 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. 2Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings. Domestic entity: means an entity whose internal affairs are governed by the laws of this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102 Donor: The person who makes a gift. 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, time-share units, and apartments. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 682 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. 17001Ecological reserve: means an area owned or leased by the State, under the jurisdiction of the bureau, designated by the director for the purpose of maintaining one or more natural community types or native ecosystem types in a natural condition and range of variation and contributing to the protection of Maine's biological diversity and managed:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1801Electronic communication service: means a service that provides to users the ability to send or receive spoken or electronic communications. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 16 Sec. 641 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 Electronic funds transfer: means the use of an electronic device for the purpose of ordering, instructing or authorizing a financial institution or credit union to debit or credit an account. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 Emancipation: means the release of a juvenile from the legal control of the juvenile's parents. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 Emergency medical treatment: means those skills, techniques and judgments, as defined by the board, which are directed to maintaining, improving or preventing the deterioration of the medical condition of the patient and which are appropriate to be delivered by trained persons at the scene of a patient's illness or injury outside the hospital and during transportation to the hospital. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Employee: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001Employee leasing company: means a sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation or other form of business entity, a substantial portion of the business of which consists of leasing employees to one or more client companies under contractual arrangements that are characterized by the following. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14051 Enterprise fund: means the Maine Retirement Savings Program Enterprise Fund established in section 178. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 171 Entertainment district: means an area that is located within a municipality that is established by ordinance of the municipal legislative body in accordance with section 221. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 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. 102Entrance fee: means an initial payment of a sum of money or any other consideration that assures a subscriber a place in a facility for a term of years or for life. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201 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. 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. Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office. Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business. Exploration: means an examination of an area for the purpose of discovering the presence of minerals with techniques which include all of the manual, mechanical, electronic or chemical methods of determining the presence, size and quality of a mineral deposit. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 549-A Explosives: means explosive materials which are used to explore, develop or mine a mineral deposit. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 549-A Facility: means a physical plant in which continuing care is provided in accordance with this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201 Facility: means any physical structure. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 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 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 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 Fire sprinkler system: means an assembly of overhead piping or conduits that conveys water with or without other agents to dispersal openings or devices to extinguish, control or contain fire and to provide protection from exposure to fire or the products of combustion, planned in accordance with a national or state standard. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1371 Fire sprinkler system contractor: means a person licensed by the commissioner to undertake the planning, installation or inspection of a fire sprinkler system or any part of such a system. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1371 Fiscal year: means the provider's fiscal year. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201 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. Flight nurse: means any registered professional nurse, currently licensed in the State, who has completed a prehospital care curriculum authorized by the Emergency Medical Services' Board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Food contact chemical of high concern: means a chemical identified by the department pursuant to section 1742. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1741 Foreign entity: means an entity other than a domestic entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102 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 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. Fund: means the Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program Fund established in section 7247. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7246 Funded debt: means an obligation for the payment of which some fund is set aside. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001 General obligation security: means a note, bond or other certificate of indebtedness to the payment of which is pledged the full faith and credit of the issuing body. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001 Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value. 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 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. 102Government entity: means a state or local government agency, including but not limited to a law enforcement entity or any other investigative entity, agency, department, division, bureau, board or commission or an individual acting or purporting to act for or on behalf of a state or local government agency. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 16 Sec. 641 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 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 Guardian: means a person lawfully invested with the power, and charged with the duty, of taking care of a person and managing the property and rights of the person, who, because of age, is considered incapable of administering the person's own affairs. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 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. Hard cider: means liquor produced by fermentation of the juice of apples or pears, including, but not limited to, flavored, sparkling or carbonated cider, that contains not less than 1/2 of 1% alcohol by volume and not more than 8. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 Health care: means the provision of any one or more of the following services:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201Health care practitioner: has the meaning set forth in Title 24, section 2502, subsection 1?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Hearsay: Statements by a witness who did not see or hear the incident in question but heard about it from someone else. Hearsay is usually not admissible as evidence in court. 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 Home health services: means those services performed by home health care providers required to be licensed under Title 22, chapter 419. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201 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 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 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 in writing: include printing and other modes of making legible words. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Incorporated civic organization: means an organization incorporated as a corporation without stock under Title 13, chapter 81 or Title 13?B with a civic or charitable purpose, including but not limited to relief of poverty, advancement of education and the arts, promotion of social health, safety and welfare, fostering community and economic development, protection against animal cruelty, combating community deterioration, lessening the burdens of government and providing assistance to the underprivileged and distressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 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. Infant: means a person who has not attained the age of 18 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury. Inspect: means to visually examine a fire sprinkler system or a portion of the system to verify that it appears to be in working order and free from physical damage. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1371 Inspection: means access to and review of juvenile case records in a manner prescribed by the Supreme Judicial Court. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 Installation: means the initial placement of a sprinkler system or part of the system or the extension, modification or alteration of a system or part after the initial placement. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1371 Intentionally added chemical: means a chemical that was added during the manufacture of a product or product component to provide a specific characteristic, appearance or quality or to perform a specific function. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1741 Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person. Interest: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102Interest holder: means a direct holder of an interest. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102 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 Interim care: means the status of temporary physical control of a juvenile by a person authorized by section 3501. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 Internal Revenue Code: means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 171 Interpreter: means a person who provides any of the following services:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1521Interpreting: means the process when a linguistic intermediary between a deaf or hard-of-hearing person and another person translates the spoken utterances or signs, gestures or writing of either person into a linguistic form other than that which that person uses as a primary and preferred form of communication. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1521 IRA: means a traditional IRA or Roth IRA. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 171 jeopardy: means serious abuse or neglect, as evidenced by:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002Juvenile: means a person who had not attained 18 years of age at the time the person allegedly committed a juvenile crime. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 Juvenile case records: means all records, regardless of form or means of transmission, that comprise a juvenile court file of an individual case, including, but not limited to, court-generated information, information and documents filed by filers, transcripts of depositions, hearings, proceedings and interviews, documentary exhibits in the custody of the clerk of the court, electronic records, videotapes and records of other proceedings filed with the clerk of the court. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 Juvenile community corrections officer: means an agent of the Department of Corrections authorized:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003Juvenile Court: means the District Court exercising the jurisdiction conferred by section 3101. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 Juvenile crime: has the meaning set forth in section 3103. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 Keg: means a container capable of holding at least 5 gallons of liquid. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 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 Law enforcement officer: means any person who by virtue of public employment is vested by law with a duty to maintain public order, to prosecute offenders, to make arrests for crimes, whether that duty extends to all crimes or is limited to specific crimes, or to perform probation functions or who is an adult probation supervisor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 16 Sec. 638 Law enforcement officer: means any person who by virtue of public employment is vested by law with a duty to maintain public order, to prosecute offenders, to make arrests for crimes, whether that duty extends to all crimes or is limited to specific crimes, or to perform probation functions or who is an adult probation supervisor as defined in Title 17?A, section 2, subsection 3?C. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC Legal custodian: means a person who has legal custody of a juvenile. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 Legal custody: means the right to the care, custody and control of a juvenile and the duty to provide food, clothing, shelter, ordinary medical care, education and discipline for a juvenile, and, in an emergency, to authorize surgery or other extraordinary care. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity. License: means a full, temporary, provisional or conditional license issued by the board under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 License: means the document issued by the commissioner to a contractor authorizing the contractor to engage in the fire sprinkler system business in this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1371 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 mental health professional: means a psychiatrist, licensed psychologist, licensed clinical social worker or certified social worker. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002 Licensee: includes , but is not limited to, agency liquor stores and certificate of approval holders. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 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 Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants. Local district: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001Long-term health care facilities: means intermediate care and skilled nursing facilities and units, licensed pursuant to chapter 405. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 6202 Low-alcohol spirits product: means a product containing spirits that has more than 1/2 of 1% of alcohol by volume but no more than 8% of alcohol by volume. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 Machinery: means equipment or machinery, exclusive of vehicles, which is used to explore, develop or mine a mineral deposit. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 549-A Maine Emergency Medical Services: means the board, the emergency medical services director and staff within the Department of Public Safety responsible for carrying out the purposes of this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Maintenance fee: means any fee which a subscriber is required to pay to the provider on a regular basis to cover the cost of shelter, health care or supportive services, or any combination thereof, provided to the subscriber. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201 Majority: when used in reference to age shall mean the age of 18 and over. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Malt liquor: means liquor:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2Manufacturer: means any person that manufactures a package or packaging component. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1732 manufacturer: includes the importer or first domestic distributor of the food package if the person who manufactured or assembled the food package or whose brand name is affixed to the food package does not have a presence in the United States. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1741 Manufacturer: means a person who distills, rectifies, brews, ferments, bottles or otherwise produces liquor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 massage practitioner: means a person who provides or offers to provide massage therapy for a fee, monetary or otherwise. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14301 Massage therapy: means a scientific or skillful manipulation of soft tissue for therapeutic or remedial purposes, specifically for improving muscle tone and circulation and promoting health and physical well-being. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14301 Medical Direction and Practices Board: means the board consisting of each regional medical director, an emergency physician representing the Maine Chapter of the American College of Emergency Medicine Physicians, an at-large member, a toxicologist or licensed pharmacist, a person licensed under section 85 to provide basic emergency medical treatment, a person licensed under section 85 to provide advanced emergency medical treatment, a pediatric physician, the statewide associate emergency medical services medical director and the statewide emergency medical services medical director. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 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 state: means any state that has adopted a prescription monitoring program and has enacted the enabling compact legislation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7262 Minerals: means all naturally occurring mineral deposits, including hydrocarbons and peat, but excluding sand, gravel and water. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 549-A 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 Mining: means all of the extractive and beneficiative processes necessary to remove and prepare a mineral deposit for market. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 549-A 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 Month: means a calendar month. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Moratorium: means a temporary land use regulation or ordinance approved by the commission or a municipal legislative body which prevents development or subdivision by withholding authorization or approval necessary for development. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 682 Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan. Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. Source: OCC Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money. Multiple use: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1831municipal clerk: means the clerk of a municipality. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001 Municipal legislative body: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001Municipal officers: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83Municipal 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. 2001Municipal 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 or appointed member of a municipal government. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001 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: means a city or town, except as provided in chapter 225. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001 Municipality: means a city, town or plantation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 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 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 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. 102Noncommercial 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. 102Nonqualified 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 LLP statement: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102Nontransporting emergency medical service: means any organization, person or persons who hold themselves out as providers of emergency medical treatment and who do not routinely provide transportation to ill or injured persons, and who routinely offer or provide services to the general public beyond the boundaries of a single recreational site, business, school or other facility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 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. 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 Offender: means an individual, juvenile or adult, accused or convicted of a criminal offense under the laws of this State or federal law. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 16 Sec. 632 Offender-based tracking information: means information collected during the administration of criminal justice by criminal justice agencies related to an identifiable person who has been determined to be an offender. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 16 Sec. 632 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 Online medical control: means the online physician, physician assistant or nurse practitioner, licensed by the State, authorized by a hospital to supervise and direct the actions of emergency medical services persons. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 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. 2001Operational facility: means a facility for which the provider has obtained a final certificate of authority from the superintendent and 60% of the residential units are occupied by subscribers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201 Operator: means a person who is certified by the department as being competent to supervise, manage or operate a wastewater treatment plant and to ensure that a wastewater treatment plant is operated in accordance with state law, rules and licenses. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 4171 Operator in responsible charge: means an operator certified by the department, with a certificate in good standing, at or above the classification for the wastewater treatment plant in which the operator is designated by the wastewater treatment plant owner to be the operator responsible for supervising, managing or operating the wastewater treatment plant and ensuring that the wastewater treatment plant is operated in accordance with state law, rules and licenses. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 4171 Ore: means any mineral or an aggregate of minerals which can be extracted from the earth economically. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 549-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 Outdoor stadium: means a commercially operated outdoor facility with 3,000 or more fixed seats that is designed or used for the playing of a sport or for an event, that is open to the public for a fee and that has adequate facilities for the sale and consumption of wine, malt liquor and spirits. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program. Owner: means the person or entity having the legal title, claim or right to a portable electronic device. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 16 Sec. 641 Owner: means a person who owns title to land where a cave is located. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 544-J Package: includes a unit package and a shipping container defined by the American Society for Testing and Materials in its annual book of standards as ASTM, D996; a food package; and unsealed receptacles such as carrying cases, crates, cups, pails, rigid foil and other trays, wrappers and wrapping films, bags and tubs. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1732 Packaging component: means any individual assembled part of a package such as, but not limited to, any interior or exterior blocking, bracing, cushioning, weatherproofing, exterior strapping, coatings, closures, inks and labels. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1732 Parent: means either a natural parent or the adoptive parent of a juvenile. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 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. 1801Participant: 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 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 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: means an individual, corporation, facility, institution or agency, public or private. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002 Person: means individuals, partnerships, corporations and other entities. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 549-A person: means a natural person, corporation, partnership, trust, agency or other entity as well as the individual officer, directors or persons in active control of the activities of that entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 1451 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, corporation, firm, association or other legal entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 Person responsible for the child: includes the child's custodian. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002 Personal property: All property that is not real property. Physical therapist: means a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter to practice physical therapy. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3111 Physical therapist assistant: means a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter and who assists a physical therapist in specific components of treatment, prevention and educational interventions within the practice of physical therapy. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3111 Physician: has the meaning set forth in Title 24, section 2502, subsection 3. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 physiotherapy: means the provision of services in the scope of practice that is set forth in section 3111?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3111 Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit. Plan: means a shop drawing or erection plan of a fire sprinkler system or a part of the system. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1371 Planned subdistrict: means a delineated area for which a specific land use plan and standards have been agreed to by the owner of the land within the delineated area and approved by the commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 682 Planning: means to draw or create plans. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1371 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. Portable electronic device: means a device that is portable and electric that enables access to, or use of, an electronic communication service or remote computing service. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 16 Sec. 641 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 Practical quantification limit: means the lowest concentration of a chemical that can be reliably measured within specified limits of precision, accuracy, representativeness, completeness and comparability during routine laboratory operating conditions. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1741 Practice of physical therapy: means the rendering of or offering to render any service involving physical therapy to detect, assess, prevent, correct, alleviate or limit physical disability, bodily malfunction and pain from injury, disease or any other bodily condition. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3111 Practitioner: means a person licensed, registered or otherwise permitted to prescribe or dispense a prescription drug. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7262 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. Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial. Preliminary marketing: means , for the purpose of evaluating market demand for a proposed facility:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201Premises: 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 Prepayment: means funding shelter, supportive services or health care entirely or in part by entrance fees or by maintenance fees paid more than one year prior to the time the shelter or service is rendered. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201 Prescriber: means a licensed health care professional with authority to prescribe controlled substances. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7246 Prescription data: means data transmitted by a prescription monitoring program that contains patient, prescriber, dispenser and prescription drug information. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7262 Prescription drug: means any drug required to be reported to a state prescription monitoring program and includes but is not limited to substances listed in the federal Controlled Substances Act. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7262 Prescription monitoring information: means information submitted to and maintained by the program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7246 Prescription monitoring program: means a program that collects, manages, analyzes and provides prescription data under the auspices of a state. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7262 Primary source of supply: means the distillery, the bottler, the brewery, the winery, the brand owner or the designated agent of any distillery, brewery, winery or brand owner. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 1451 Priority food contact chemical: means a chemical designated by the commissioner pursuant to section 1743. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1741 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 Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law. Probation: means a legal status created by court order in cases involving a juvenile adjudicated as having committed a juvenile crime that permits the juvenile to remain in the juvenile's own home or other placement designated by the Juvenile Court subject to revocation for violation of any condition imposed by the court. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003 Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed. 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 Program: means the Maine Retirement Savings Program established in accordance with this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 171 Program: means the Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program established under section 7248. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7246 Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government. 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 Provider: means the owner of an institution, building, residence or other place, whether operated for profit or not, in which the owner undertakes to provide continuing care. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201 Provider: means any facility or program which meets the licensing and program standards of the department. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 6202 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. 1801Qualified 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 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. 4002Qualifying 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. 18601Quorum: 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 estate: means land and structures attached to it. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 682 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. Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business. 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 Records: means the financial and other information and personnel data maintained by the provider for the proper operation of the facility pursuant to this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201 Referral: means the request of an advanced practice registered nurse, certified nurse midwife, physician assistant, naturopathic doctor or doctor of medicine, surgery, osteopathy, podiatry or dentistry or any other health care provider acting within the scope of that health care provider's license to a physical therapist to accept one of that health care provider's patients for treatment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3111 Regional council: means a business entity recognized by the board that represents a geographical area of the State, as designated by the board, with respect to matters subject to this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Regions: means those geographical areas of the State designated by the board to be represented by a regional council. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 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. 102Relative: 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. Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings. Remote computing service: means computer storage or processing services provided by means of an electronic communication service. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 16 Sec. 641 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 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. 102Requestor: means a person authorized by a member state who has initiated a request for prescription data. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7262 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. 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 Residential unit: means an apartment, room or other area within a facility set aside for the exclusive and independent living use of one or more identified subscribers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201 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. Retail employee: means any person employed by a retailer to sell liquor in a licensed establishment or agency liquor store. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 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 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 Retirement: means termination of membership with a retirement allowance granted under this chapter. 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 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 Royalty: means the amount paid to the State for the right to remove minerals from state land, including minimum and preproduction payments. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 549-A Rule: includes the amendment, repeal or suspension of an existing rule. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7262 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 sale territory: means the area of primary sales responsibility expressly or implicitly designated by any agreement between a wholesale licensee and a certificate of approval holder for the brand or label of a certificate of approval holder. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 1451 sell: means any transfer or delivery of liquor for a consideration. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 Serious harm: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002Serious injury: means serious physical injury or impairment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002 Serious physical injury: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 16 Sec. 641Service: means service as an employee for which compensation was paid. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001 Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party. Setback: means the minimum horizontal distance from a lot line, shoreline or road to the nearest part of a structure. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 682 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 Shoreline: means the normal high water mark of tidal waters, a coastal or inland wetland, a standing body of water or flowing water. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 682 Sign: means , with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 102Similar 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 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. 2Small 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. 2Small winery: means a person that ferments and ages:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2Source 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 Spaghetti-lot: means a parcel of land with a lot depth to shore frontage ratio greater than 5 to 1. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 682 Species: means any recognized taxonomic category of the biota including species, subspecies or variety. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 544 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 Spirits supplier: means a person that provides spirits for sale by the bureau in the State, including:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2Spouse: means the person currently legally married to a member. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001 State: means any state, commonwealth, district or territory of the United States. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7262 State lands: means all lands owned or held in trust by the State or in which the State holds an interest, including inland and tidal submerged lands and waters. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 549-A 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 Statewide associate emergency medical services medical director: means a licensed physician appointed by the board pursuant to section 84, subsection 1, paragraph C. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Statute: A law passed by a legislature. Structure: means anything constructed or erected with a fixed location on or in the ground, or attached to something having a fixed location on or in the ground, including, but not limited to, buildings, mobile homes, retaining walls, billboards, signs, piers and floats. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 682 subdivision: means a division of an existing parcel of land into 3 or more parcels or lots within any 5-year period, whether this division is accomplished by platting of the land for immediate or future sale, by sale of the land or by leasing. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 682 Submerged lands: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1801Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony. Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents. Subscriber: means a purchaser or beneficiary of a continuing care agreement. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201 Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system. Superintendent: means the Superintendent of Insurance. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201 Superintendent: means the Superintendent of Consumer Credit Protection. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14051 Supplier: means any person, firm or corporation that sells packages or packaging components to a distributor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1732 Supportive services: means providing assistance in the activities of daily living or other social services, or both. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201 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 Technology infrastructure: means the design, deployment and use of both individual technology-based components and the systems of such components to facilitate the transmission of information and prescription data among member states. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7262 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. Tenant winery: means a person who has been issued an approved application for an alternating proprietorship from the United States Department of the Treasury, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau authorizing the winery to engage in an alternating proprietorship as defined by federal regulation and is licensed by the bureau to produce wine or hard cider at a manufacturing facility of another winery who is licensed by the bureau. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 Testify: Answer questions in court. Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries. Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident. Town: includes cities and plantations, unless otherwise expressed or implied. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Tracking device: means an electronic or mechanical device the primary purpose of which is to track the movement of a person or object. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 16 Sec. 638 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 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. 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 Transient occupancy: means occupancy that does not exceed 120 days in a calendar year. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 682 Transmission: means the release, transfer, provision or disclosure of information or prescription data among member states. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7262 Trauma: means a single or multisystem life-threatening or limb-threatening injury requiring immediate medical or surgical intervention or treatment to prevent death or permanent disability. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Trauma care system: means a subsystem within the emergency medical services system, consisting of an organized arrangement of personnel, equipment and facilities, designed to manage the treatment of the trauma patient. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83 Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence. 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 Unorganized and deorganized areas: includes :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 682Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision. User: means a person or entity that uses a portable electronic device. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 16 Sec. 641 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. Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried. Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge. Victim advocate: work with prosecutors and assist the victims of a crime. 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 Wastewater treatment plant: means the facility or group of units provided for the treatment of wastewater to meet the requirements of a state pollutant discharge elimination system permit or a waste discharge license under Title 38, section 413. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 4171 wholesale licensee: means a person holding a wholesale license under section 1401, offering malt liquor or wine for sale or resale to retailers, without regard to whether the business of the person is conducted under the terms of an agreement with a certificate of approval holder. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 1451 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 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 Wholesaler: means a person that engages in the purchase and resale of malt liquor or wine, or both, in sealed bottles, containers or original packages, as prepared for the market by the manufacturer at the place of manufacture, but not for consumption, except during a taste-testing event conducted in accordance with the requirements of this Title. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2 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 Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.