Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 247

  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Displaced person: means :
    (1) Any person who moves from real property or moves that person's personal property from real property:
    (a) As a direct result of a written notice of intent to acquire or the acquisition of that real property in whole or in part for a program or project undertaken by the department; or
    (b) On which the person is a residential tenant or conducts a small business, a farm operation or a business defined in subsection 2, as a direct result of rehabilitation, demolition or such other displacing activity as the department prescribes under a program or project undertaken by the department in any case in which the department determines that the displacement is permanent; and
    (2) Solely for the purposes of section 243 and section 244, subsections 1 and 2, any person who moves from real property or moves that person's personal property from real property:
    (a) As a direct result of a written notice of intent to acquire or the acquisition of other real property, in whole or in part, on which the person conducts a business or farm operation, for a program or project undertaken by the department; or
    (b) As a direct result of rehabilitation, demolition or such other displacing activity as the department prescribes of other real property on which the person conducts a business or a farm operation, under a program or project undertaken by the department where the department determines that the displacement is permanent. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 242
Nothing contained in this subchapter shall be construed as creating in any eminent domain proceeding an element of damages not in existence on the date of enactment hereof. [PL 1971, c. 333, §1 (NEW).]
Any payments authorized under this subchapter and received by a displaced person shall not be considered income for purposes under the Internal Revenue Code, or resources of any recipient of public assistance. [PL 1971, c. 333, §1 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY

PL 1971, c. 333, §1 (NEW).