Maine Revised Statutes > Title 28-A > Part 3 – Licenses for Sale of Liquor

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Subpart 1	General Provisions	601 – 806
Subpart 2	Retail Licenses	1001 – 1209
Subpart 3	Non-Retail Sales	1351 – 1553

Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 28-A > Part 3 - Licenses for Sale of Liquor

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
Accumulated contributions: means the sum of all the amounts credited to a member's individual account, together with regular interest on the account. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 3 Sec. 701
Active duty military: means full-time duty status in the active uniformed service of the United States, including members of the National Guard and Reserves of the United States Armed Forces on active duty orders pursuant to 10 United States Code, Chapters 1209 and 1211. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553
Active duty military: means full-time duty status in the active uniformed service of the United States, including members of the National Guard and Reserves of the United States Armed Forces on active duty orders pursuant to 10 United States Code, Chapters 1209 and 1211. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18703
Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
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
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 action: means any administrative, civil, equitable or criminal action permitted by a state's laws that is imposed by a licensing board or other authority against a licensed professional counselor, including actions against an individual's license or privilege to practice such as revocation, suspension, probation, monitoring of the licensee, limitation on the licensee's practice or any other encumbrance on licensure affecting a licensed professional counselor's authorization to practice, including issuance of a cease and desist action. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553
Adverse action: means disciplinary action taken by a physical therapy licensing board based upon misconduct, unacceptable performance or a combination of both. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18703
Adverse result: means :

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 16 Sec. 638

Adverse result: means :

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 16 Sec. 641

Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.

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

Agent: means any person who sells or distributes potatoes or rotation crops in commerce for or on behalf of producers or others and whose operations may include the planting, cultivating, harvesting, grading, packing and furnishing containers, supplies or other services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012

Aggravating factor: means any of the following circumstances with regard to the parent. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002

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

Airline corporation: means a person operating regularly scheduled intrastate or interstate passenger air transportation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

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.

Alternative: means a substitute process, product, material, chemical, strategy or combination of these that serves a functionally equivalent purpose to a chemical in a package or packaging component. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1732

Alternative program: means a nondisciplinary monitoring or practice remediation process approved by a professional counseling licensing board to address impaired practitioners. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553

Alternative program: means a nondisciplinary monitoring or practice remediation process approved by a physical therapy licensing board, including, but not limited to, addressing substance use disorder issues. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18703

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

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

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.

Applicant: means any person applying for a license under this Article. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012

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

armor-piercing ammunition: means a projectile or projectile core that may be used in a handgun and that is constructed entirely, excluding the presence of traces of other substances, from one or a combination of tungsten alloys, steel, iron, brass, beryllium copper or depleted uranium, including but not limited to ammunition commonly known as KTW ammunition. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 1056

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

Auditorium: means a commercially operated indoor or outdoor facility designed or used for the gathering of an audience for speeches and live performances of theater, music, dance or other performing arts that charges a fee and has adequate facilities for the sale and consumption of liquor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

Authority: means the Finance Authority of Maine as established by this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 963-A

Average final compensation: means :

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001

Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.

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

Bed and breakfast guest: means a person whose name and address are registered on a registry maintained by a bed and breakfast and who is the bona fide occupant of a room of the bed and breakfast. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

Beneficiary: 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

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

Board of trustees: means the board provided for in section 731. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 3 Sec. 701

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. 2

Broker: means any person engaged in the business of negotiating sales of potatoes in commerce for or on behalf of the seller or the purchaser, respectively. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012

Bureau: means the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

Business entity: means a partnership, corporation, firm, association or other legal entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

Buyer: means any person other than a consumer who purchases or contracts to purchase potatoes or rotation crops. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012

Bylaws: means those bylaws adopted by the interstate commission pursuant to section 18512 for its governance or for directing and controlling its actions and conduct. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18503

Camping area: means , in addition to the generally accepted interpretations, lakeshore places, picnic and lunch grounds or other premises where tents or recreational vehicles are permitted and licensed under Title 22, section 2495. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1900

Canoe: means a form of small watercraft with no rudder or sails that is long and narrow, sharp on both ends or sharp on one end and blunt on the other end usually propelled by paddles or a small motor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1872

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

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. 2

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. 1401-A

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

certified seed: as used in this Title shall be deemed to mean potato, vegetable, forage crop or grain seeds as shall have been grown and prepared for sale in accordance with regulations laid down by the commissioner and for which a certificate or tag has been issued as provided in section 2103. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2101

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.

Chemical: means a substance with a distinct molecular composition or a group of structurally related substances and includes the breakdown products of the substance or substances that form through decomposition, degradation or metabolism. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1732

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 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

Circumstantial evidence: All evidence except eyewitness testimony.

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 of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.

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

Club member: means a person who, whether as a charter member or admitted in accordance with the bylaws of the club, is a bona fide member of that club and who maintains membership in good standing by payment of dues in a bona fide manner in accordance with bylaws and whose name and address are entered on the list of members. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

Cocaine: means :

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 1101

commission: means the national administrative body whose membership consists of all states that have enacted the compact. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553

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

commission: means the national administrative body whose membership consists of all states that have enacted the compact pursuant to section 18708. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18703

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 the Commissioner of Environmental Protection. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1741

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.

Compact privilege: means the authorization granted by a remote state to allow a licensee from another member state to practice as a physical therapist or work as a physical therapist assistant in the remote state under its laws and rules. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18703

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

Continuing competence: means a requirement, as a condition of license renewal, to provide evidence of participation in, or completion of, educational and professional activities relevant to practice or area of work. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18703

Continuing competence and education: means a requirement, as a condition of license renewal, to provide evidence of participation in, or completion of, educational and professional activities relevant to practice or area of work. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553

Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.

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

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

Cultivate: means to sow a seed; to grow, raise or tend a plant; to harvest a plant; or to knowingly possess a plant. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 1101

Current significant investigative information: means :

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553

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.

Data system: means a repository of information about licensees, including, but not limited to, continuing education, examination, licensure, investigative, privilege to practice and adverse action information. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553

Data system: means a repository of information about licensees, including examination, licensure, investigative, compact privilege and adverse action information. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18703

De minimis level: means :

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1741

Deaf 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

Deaf person: means a person whose sense of hearing is nonfunctional for the purpose of communication and whose primary means of communication is visual or tactile. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1521

Dealer: means any person engaged in the business of buying or selling potatoes or rotation crops in wholesale or jobbing quantities in commerce and includes:

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012

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.

Defense attorney: Represent defendants in criminal matters.

Department: means the Department of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 1-A

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 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 child: means :

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001

Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.

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

Developed swim area: means an area delineated by line buoys in accordance with the aids to navigation system established pursuant to section 1894. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1900

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

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

Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:

Dispositional 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. 2

Distributor: means any person, firm or corporation that sells a packaged product to a retailer in this State or any person, firm or corporation that receives a shipment or consignment of, or in any other manner acquires, packaged products outside the State for sale to consumers in the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1732

Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.

Donor: The person who makes a gift.

Earnable compensation: means the actual compensation of a Legislator. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 3 Sec. 701

Ecological 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. 1801

Electronic 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: 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

Eligible collateral: means accounts, as-extracted collateral, chattel paper, commercial tort claims, consumer goods, deposit accounts, documents, equipment, farm products, fixtures, general intangibles, instruments, investment property, inventory, letter of credit rights, manufactured homes, money, real estate, supporting obligations and accessions to any of the foregoing and any other business assets. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 963-A

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

Encumbered license: means a license in which an adverse action restricts the practice of licensed professional counseling by the licensee and that adverse action has been reported to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, National Practitioner Data Bank. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553

Encumbered license: means a license that a physical therapy licensing board has limited in any way. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18703

Encumbrance: means a revocation or suspension of, or any limitation on, the full and unrestricted practice of licensed professional counseling by a licensing board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553

Energy distribution system project: means an energy distribution system owned, in whole or in part, by an individual, municipality, corporation or other governmental entity or business association and that uses biomass, peat, solar, waste, water and related dams, wind, wood or coal or that distributes or transmits oil, biofuels, propane, compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas or natural gas. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 963-A

Energy generating system project: means :

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 963-A

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.

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.

Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.

Executive board: means a group of directors elected or appointed to act on behalf of, and within the powers granted to them by, the commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18703

Executive committee: means a group of directors elected or appointed to act on behalf of, and within the powers granted to them by, the commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553

Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.

Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent

Facility: means any physical structure. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 3003

Fair Debt Collection Practices Act: The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act is a set of United States statutes added as Title VIII of the Consumer Credit Protection Act. Its purpose is to ensure ethical practices in the collection of consumer debts and to provide consumers with an avenue for disputing and obtaining validation of debt information in order to ensure the information's accuracy. It is often used in conjunction with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. ^{Source: OCC}

Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.

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

Fentanyl powder: means any compound, mixture or preparation, in granular or powder form, containing fentanyl or any derivative of fentanyl listed in section 1102, subsection 1, paragraph I in any quantity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 1101

Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.

Financial document: means a lease, installment sale agreement, conditional sale agreement, note, mortgage, loan agreement or other instrument pertaining to an extension of financial assistance. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 963-A

financial institution: means any bank, trust company, national banking association, savings bank, savings and loan association, federal savings and loan association, industrial bank, mortgage company, insurance company, credit union, local development corporation or any other institution or entity authorized to do business in this State, or any state or federal agency which customarily provides financing assistance. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 963-A

fire district: means a district created by vote of a group of municipalities for the purpose of providing fire protection. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3531

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: 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

Food package: includes , but is not limited to, a food or beverage product that is contained in a food package or to which a food package is applied, a packaging component of a food package and plastic disposable gloves used in commercial or institutional food service. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1732

Fortified wine: means :

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.

Full meal: means a meal consisting of a diversified selection of food that ordinarily cannot be consumed without the use of tableware and that cannot be conveniently consumed while standing or walking. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

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

Government 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

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,

Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.

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

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

Hard-of-hearing person: means a person who has a functional hearing deficit, who may or may not primarily use visual communication and who may or may not use assistive devices. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1521

Health 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.

Heroin: means any compound, mixture or preparation containing heroin (diacetylmorphine) in any quantity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 1101

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 state: means the member state that is the licensee's primary state of residence. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553

Home state: means the member state that is the licensee's primary state of residence. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18703

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

Impaired practitioner: means an individual who has a condition that may impair that individual's ability to practice as a licensed professional counselor without some type of intervention and may include, but is not limited to, alcohol and drug dependence, mental health impairment and neurological or physical impairments. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553

Incidental presence: means the presence of a regulated metal or other regulated chemical as an unintended or undesired ingredient of a package or packaging component. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1732

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

Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}

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.

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

Intentional introduction: means the act of deliberately using a regulated metal or other regulated chemical in the formation of a package or packaging component when its continued presence is desired in the final package or packaging component to provide a specific characteristic, appearance or quality. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1732

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

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. 1521

Interpreting: 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

Interstate commission: means the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Commission created pursuant to section 18512. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18503

Investigative information: means information, records and documents received or generated by a professional counseling licensing board pursuant to an investigation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553

Investigative information: means information, records and documents received or generated by a physical therapy licensing board pursuant to an investigation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18703

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. 4002

Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.

Jurisprudence: The study of law and the structure of the legal system.

Juvenile: 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. 3003

Juvenile 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

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}

Legacy: A gift of property made by will.

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

License: means authorization by a state for a physician to engage in the practice of medicine. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18503

Licensed establishment: means premises to which a license for the sale of spirits, wine or malt liquor to be consumed on or off the licensed premises applies and any person or organization that is licensed to sell spirits, wine or malt liquor during the times and in the places and manners as specified in the license. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

Licensed federal-state potato inspector: means an authorized representative of the Federal-State Inspection Service. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012

Licensed professional counselor: means a counselor licensed by a member state, regardless of the title used by that state, to independently assess, diagnose and treat behavioral health conditions. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553

Licensee: means any person who holds an unrevoked and valid unsuspended license issued under this Article. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012

Licensee: includes , but is not limited to, agency liquor stores and certificate of approval holders. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

Licensee: means an individual who currently holds an authorization from a state to practice as a licensed professional counselor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553

Licensee: means an individual who currently holds an authorization from a state to practice as a physical therapist or to work as a physical therapist assistant. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18703

Licensing board: means the agency of a state, or equivalent, that is responsible for the licensing and regulation of licensed professional counselors. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553

licensing board: means the agency of a state that is responsible for the licensing and regulation of physical therapists and physical therapist assistants. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18703

Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.

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.

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

machine gun: means a weapon of any description, by whatever name known, loaded or unloaded, which is capable of discharging a number of projectiles in rapid succession by one manual or mechanical action on the trigger or firing mechanism. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 1051

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

Malt liquor: means liquor:

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

Management plan: means a plan of timber harvesting operations for areas within the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1872

Manufacturer: 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

Marijuana: includes the leaves, stems, flowers and seeds of all species of the plant genus Cannabis, whether growing or not; but does not include the resin extracted from any part of such plant and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation from such resin including hashish and does not include the mature stalks of such plant, fiber produced from such stalks, oil or cake made from the seeds of such plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of such mature stalks, fiber, oil or cake or the sterilized seed of such plant that is incapable of germination. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 1101

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: means a Legislator who is included in the membership of the Legislative Retirement Program, as provided in section 801. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 3 Sec. 701

Member board: means a state agency in a member state that acts in the sovereign interests of the state by protecting the public through licensure, regulation and education of physicians as directed by the state government. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18503

Member state: means a state that has enacted the compact. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18503

Member state: means a state that has enacted the compact. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553

Member state: means a state that has enacted the compact. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18703

Methamphetamine precursor drug: means any drug or product possessed by a person that contains in the aggregate a quantity of more than 9 grams of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine or phenylpropanolamine or their salts, isomers or salts of isomers, either alone or in combination with other ingredients, in dry or solid nonliquid form. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 1101

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

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

Mortgage: means an agreement granting a lien upon or a security interest in eligible collateral upon certain conditions and includes, but is not limited to, a mortgage of real estate, an assignment of rents, a pledge or a security agreement. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 963-A

Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.

Municipal legislative body: means :

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001

Municipal officers: means :

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83

Municipal officers: means the mayor and municipal officers or councilors of a city, the members of the select board or councilors of a town and the assessors of a plantation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72

Municipal officers: means :

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001

Municipal officers: means the mayor and aldermen or councillors of a city, the members of the select board or councillors of a town and the assessors of plantations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

Municipality: means any municipality as defined in Title 30?A, section 2001, subsection 8. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 963-A

Municipality: includes cities, towns and plantations, except that "municipality" does not include plantations in Title 10, chapter 110, subchapter IV; or Title 30?A, Part 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72

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

Noncitizen: means any person who is not a United States citizen. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4099-I

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

Nontransporting 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.

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

Off-premises retail licensee: means a person licensed to sell liquor in sealed bottles, containers or original packages to be consumed off the premises where sold. 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

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

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

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. 1801

Participant: means an individual who has an IRA under the program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 171

Party state: means any member state in which a licensee holds a current license or compact privilege or is applying for a license or compact privilege. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18703

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, facility, institution or agency, public or private. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002

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

PFAS: means any member of the class of fluorinated organic chemicals containing at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1732

Phthalates: means any member of the class of organic chemicals that are esters of phthalic acid and that contain 2 carbon chains located in the ortho position. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1732

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: means an individual who is licensed by a state to practice physical therapy. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18703

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

Physical therapist assistant: means an individual who is licensed or certified by a state and who assists a physical therapist in selected components of physical therapy. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18703

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

Planning: means to draw or create plans. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1371

Plastic bottle: means any plastic container with a neck smaller than the container body and a capacity not less than 16 fluid ounces and not more than 5 gallons. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1721

Plastic container: means any bottle, can, jar, case, package or other receptacle intended to hold, carry, or enclose fluids, food items or nonfood products that is composed predominately of plastic resins, including, but not limited to, plastic resins listed in section 1723. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1721

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.

Plea agreement: An arrangement between the prosecutor, the defense attorney, and the defendant in which the defendant agrees to plead guilty in exchange for special considerations. ^Source:

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

Portland Area Comprehensive Transportation System: means the federally designated planning organization for the Portland region established to improve the coordination of transportation planning and investment decisions by state, municipal and public transportation organizations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3501

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 medicine: means the clinical prevention, diagnosis or treatment of a human disease, injury or condition requiring a physician to obtain and maintain a license in compliance with the medical practice act of a member state. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18503

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

practice of physical therapy: means the care and services provided by or under the direction and supervision of a licensed physical therapist. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18703

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.

Premises: includes the place where an incorporated civic organization sells or serves spirits, wine and malt liquor under a license obtained under section 1071. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

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

Privilege to practice: means a legal authorization that is equivalent to a license permitting the practice of professional counseling in a remote state. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553

Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.

Probate: Proving a will

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.

Processor: means any person other than a consumer who purchases or contracts to purchase potatoes or rotation crops primarily for manufacture into articles of food or starch by operations that change the physical form the potatoes or rotation crops possessed when harvested. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012

Professional counseling: means the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of behavioral health conditions by a licensed professional counselor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553

Program: means the Maine Retirement Savings Program established in accordance with this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 171

Project: means any eligible project. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 963-A

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

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 reserved lands: means :

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1801

Public service corporation: means an airline corporation, railroad corporation or vessel corporation operating in the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

Qualified catering service: means a catering establishment as defined in Title 22, chapter 562 and licensed by the Department of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

Qualified entity: means a camping area, recreational camp or governmental entity or governmentally sponsored group. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1900

Qualifying member: means :

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 18601

Railroad corporation: means a corporation operating one or more dining cars or passenger cars within the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

Real estate: includes lands and all tenements and hereditaments connected therewith, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72

Real estate: means land and structures attached to it. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001

Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.

Recreational camp: means day camps, boys and girls camps and family, hunting, fishing and similar camps licensed under Title 22, section 2495. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1900

Rectifier: means a person that produces spirits or low-alcohol spirits products by combining spirits with other products. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

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

Regional transportation corporation: means any private, nonprofit corporation formed for the express purpose of providing public transportation services to more than one municipality but which is not wholly or partly owned by the municipalities. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3501

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

registered mail: when used in connection with any requirement for notice by mail shall mean either registered mail or certified mail. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72

regularly: includes daily, weekly or monthly, but does not include once a year or less often. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

Relative: includes , for an Indian child as defined by the federal Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, 25 United States Code § 1903, Subsection 4, or by the Maine Indian Child Welfare Act, section 3943, subsection 8, an extended family member as defined by the law or custom of the Indian child's tribe or, in the absence of such law or custom, an extended family member as defined by the federal Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, 25 United States Code § 1903, Subsection 2 or the Maine Indian Child Welfare Act, section 3943, subsection 5. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002

Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.

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

Remote state: means a member state other than the home state where a licensee is exercising or seeking to exercise the privilege to practice. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553

Remote state: means a member state other than the home state where a licensee is exercising or seeking to exercise the compact privilege. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18703

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

Restaurant: means a place that is regularly used for the purpose of providing food for the public and that has adequate and sanitary kitchen and dining room equipment and capacity for preparing and serving suitable food for the public. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.

Restricted zone: means a land area of from 400 feet to 800 feet that extends in all directions from the bounds of the watercourse and includes all land areas within the bounds of the watercourse and all additional areas that may be added by mutual agreement between the director and private property owners. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1872

Retail 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

Retailer: means a person engaged in the business of buying potatoes or rotation crops in wholesale or jobbing quantities and reselling the potatoes or rotation crops bought primarily to consumers through at least 5 retail outlets located within or without the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012

Retirement: means the termination of membership service with a retirement allowance granted under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 3 Sec. 701

Retirement system: means the Maine Public Employees Retirement System established in section 17101. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 171

Rigid plastic container: means any formed or molded plastic container, except plastic bottles, with a capacity not less than 8 fluid ounces and not more than 5 gallons that retains the same shape whether full or empty. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1721

Rotation crop: means small grain, soybean or flax grown in rotation with potatoes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012

Roth IRA: means a Roth individual retirement account or Roth individual retirement annuity described in Section 408A of the Internal Revenue Code. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 171

Rule: means a written statement by the interstate commission promulgated pursuant to section 18513 that is of general applicability; implements, interprets or prescribes a policy or provision of the compact or an organizational, procedural or practice requirement of the interstate commission; has the force and effect of statutory law in a member state; and includes the amendment, repeal or suspension of an existing rule. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18503

Rule: means a regulation promulgated by the commission that has the force of law. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553

Rule: means a regulation, principle or directive promulgated by the commission that has the force of law. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18703

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

Safe zone: means an athletic field, park, playground or recreational facility that is designated as a safe zone by a municipality pursuant to Title 30?A, section 3253. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 1101

Safer alternative: means an alternative that, when compared to a chemical that it could replace, would reduce the potential for harm to human health or the environment or that has not been shown to pose the same or greater potential for harm to human health or the environment as that chemical. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1732

Sale: includes every contract of purchase or sale, contract to purchase or sell, purchase, sale and disposition of potatoes or rotation crops for value. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012

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

security: means a note, bond, interim certificate, debenture or other evidence of indebtedness, including any recovery zone facility bond or qualified energy conservation bond, payment of which is secured by a pledge of revenues, as provided in section 1045?A or 1065, or by assignment or pledge of other eligible collateral. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 963-A

sell: means any transfer or delivery of liquor for a consideration. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

Seller: means any person who sells or contracts to sell potatoes or rotation crops in the regular course of business. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012

Serious 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. 641

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.

Ship chandler: means a retail establishment supplying provisions, including malt liquor and wine, to ships of foreign registry. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

Similar circumstances: means conditions that have an effect on a child comparable to abuse, neglect or abandonment, including, but not limited to, the death of a parent. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4099-I

Single-state license: means a licensed professional counselor license issued by a member state that authorizes practice only within the issuing state and does not include a privilege to practice in any other member state. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553

Sinking fund: means a fund created for the purpose of paying a debt. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001

Small brewery: means a person that engages in the activities under either paragraph A or B, or both:

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

Small distillery: means a person that engages in the activities under either paragraph A or B, or both:

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

Small winery: means a person that ferments and ages:

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

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. 2

Spouse: 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 32 Sec. 18503

State: means any state, commonwealth, district or territory of the United States that regulates the practice of professional counseling. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553

State: means any state, commonwealth, district or territory of the United States that regulates the practice of physical therapy. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18703

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.

Submerged lands: means :

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1801

Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.

Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.

Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.

Supplier: means any person, firm or corporation that sells packages or packaging components to a distributor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1732

Surimi: means an intermediate manufactured seafood product derived from minced fish meat, washed to remove water-soluble protein, blood or other undesirable components and mixed with additives, containing sugars or sodium, or both, to enhance its frozen storage and functional characteristics. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 6111

Surviving spouse: means the spouse alive at the time of the death of the member or former member. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001

Suspected child abuse and neglect committee: means a committee representing public and private community agencies, hospital departments and the department which are directly involved in providing services to suspected victims of child abuse and the victims' families. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4092

Swim line: means a line, rope or a series of buoys used to delineate an area of surface water for the purpose of swimming. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1900

Tavern: means a place where malt liquor may be sold at tables, booths and counters. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

Telehealth: means the application of telecommunication technology to deliver professional counseling services remotely to assess, diagnose and treat behavioral health conditions. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553

Tenant brewery: means a person that has submitted a brewer's notice to and received approval from the United States Department of the Treasury, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau authorizing the person to engage in an alternating proprietorship as defined by federal regulation and is licensed by the bureau to produce malt liquor and low-alcohol spirits products consisting of malt liquor to which spirits have been added at a manufacturing facility of another brewery that is licensed by the bureau. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

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.

Timber harvesting operation: means the cutting and removal of trees from their growing site and the attendant operation of mobile or portable chipping mills and of cutting and skidding machinery, including the creation and use of skid trails, skid roads and winter haul roads and the construction or creation of land management roads. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1872

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.

transit district: includes :

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3501

Transportation corridor district: means a specified area contiguous with a transportation route or facility that has been formed by a municipality or municipalities and approved by the voters as provided under section 3502?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3501

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.

Unencumbered license: means a license that authorizes a licensed professional counselor to engage in the full and unrestricted practice of professional counseling. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18553

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

Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.

Use: means an activity of any form, kind or description. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1872

User: means a person or entity that uses a portable electronic device. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 16 Sec. 641

User: means one or more persons acting as lessee, purchaser, mortgagor or borrower under a financial document. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 963-A

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.

Verified complaint: means a writing signed by a person, who, under oath, swears that the person has reason to believe that a person required to be licensed under this Article has violated one or more of the provisions of this Article or of the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, setting forth a short and plain statement of the allegations that are the basis for such belief. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 1012

Vessel: means a ship, vessel or boat of any kind used for navigation of the coastal waters or for commercial navigation of inland waters and licensed for carrying no fewer than 25 passengers under the requirements of the Public Utilities Commission or the United States Coast Guard. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2

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

Water safety zone: means the area of water within 200 feet of shoreline, whether the shoreline of the mainland or of an island. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1900

Watercourse: means the bodies of water consisting of lakes, rivers and streams extending from Telos Lake Dam northerly to the confluence of West Twin Brook and Allagash River, a distance of approximately 85 miles, and bodies of water consisting of lakes and streams extending from where Allagash Stream crosses the west boundary of T. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1872

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