Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 32 > Chapter 19 > Subchapter 3 - Licensure

• Accreditation board: means the accreditation board for engineering and technology. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1251
• Board: means the State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1251
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Engineer-intern: means a person who has been certified as an engineer-intern by the board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1251
• Engineering accreditation commission: means the engineering accreditation commission of the accreditation board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1251
• Engineering technology accreditation commission: means the engineering technology accreditation commission of the accreditation board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1251
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• in writing: include printing and other modes of making legible words. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• 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.
• Month: means a calendar month. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• National council: means the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1251
• Practice of professional engineering: means any professional service, such as consultation, investigation, evaluation, planning, design or responsible supervision of construction in connection with any public or private utilities, structures, buildings, machines, equipment, processes, works or projects, wherein the public welfare or the safeguarding of life, health or property is concerned or involved, when such professional service requires the application of engineering principles and data. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1251
• Professional engineer: means a person who, by reason of a knowledge of mathematics, the physical sciences and the principles of engineering, acquired by professional education and practical experience, is qualified to engage in engineering practice as defined. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 1251
• 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.
• 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.
• United States: includes territories and the District of Columbia. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72