Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 32 > Chapter 56 - Psychologists

• Adverse action: means any action taken by a state psychology regulatory authority that is identified by the state psychology regulatory authority as discipline for a violation of a statute or regulation and that is a matter of public record. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3842
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• 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.
• 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
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards: means the recognized membership organization composed of state and provincial psychology regulatory authorities responsible for the licensure and registration of psychologists throughout the United States and Canada. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3842
• Asynchronous encounter: means an interaction between a patient and a person licensed under this chapter through a system that has the ability to store digital information, including, but not limited to, still images, video files, audio files, text files and other relevant data, and to transmit such information without requiring the simultaneous presence of the patient and the person licensed under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3850-E
• Authority to practice interjurisdictional telepsychology: means a licensed psychologist's authority to practice telepsychology within the limits authorized under this compact in another compact state. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3842
• Board: means the State Board of Examiners of Psychologists. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3811-A
• Bonds: means bonds of the bank issued under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5903
• Bylaws: means the bylaws established by the commission pursuant to section 3850 for its governance or for directing and controlling its actions and conduct. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3842
• Client: means the recipient of psychological services, whether psychological services are delivered in the context of health care, corporate, supervision or consulting services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3842
• Commission: means the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact Commission established by section 3850, which is the governing body of the compact. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3842
• Commissioner: means the voting representative appointed by each state psychology regulatory authority pursuant to section 3850. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3842
• Compact state: means a state, the District of Columbia or a United States territory that has enacted the compact and that has not withdrawn pursuant to section 3850?C, subsection 3 or has not been terminated pursuant to section 3850?B, subsection 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3842
• Confidential: means the principle that data or information is not made available or disclosed to unauthorized persons or processes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3842
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conversion therapy: means any practice or treatment that seeks or claims to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity, including, but not limited to, any effort to change gender expression or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions, feelings or behavior toward others based on the individual's gender. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 59-C
• Coordinated database: means the coordinated licensure information system described in section 3849, which is an integrated process for collecting, storing and sharing information on psychologists' licensure and enforcement activities related to psychology licensure laws. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3842
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Day: means any part of a day in which psychological services are performed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3842
• Distant state: means a compact state where a psychologist is physically present, not through the use of telecommunications technologies, to provide temporary in-person, face-to-face psychological services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3842
• E-passport: means a certificate issued by the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards that promotes the standardization in the criteria of interjurisdictional telepsychology practice and facilitates the process for licensed psychologists to provide telepsychological services across state lines. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3842
• 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}
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executive board: means a group of directors elected or appointed to act on behalf of, and within the powers granted to them by, the commission pursuant to section 3850, subsection 5. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3842
• 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
• 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.
• General fund: means the fund created or established as provided in section 6007. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5903
• Governmental unit: means any county, municipality, school administrative district, community school district, public waste disposal corporation as authorized under Title 38, section 1304?B or other quasi-municipal corporation within the State, including any corporation owned entirely by a municipality and providing water, sewer or electric service or performing other essential governmental functions. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 5903
• 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.
• Home state: means a compact state where a psychologist is licensed to practice psychology. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3842
• Identity history summary: means a summary of information retained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation or other designee with similar authority in connection with arrests and, in some instances, federal employment, naturalization or military service. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 3842
• in writing: include printing and other modes of making legible words. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
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