Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 32 > Chapter 86 > Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

• Board: means the Polygraph Examiners Advisory Board under section 7371. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 7352
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Public Safety. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 7352
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• Department: means the Department of Public Safety. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 7352
• Instrument: means a device used to test a subject to directly or indirectly detect deception or verify the truth of a statement by, at a minimum, recording visually, permanently and simultaneously a subject's cardiovascular, respiratory and electrodermal patterns. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 7352
• Intern: means a person who holds a polygraph examiner intern license under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 7352
• Polygraph examination: means an examination conducted by a polygraph examiner that consists of a pre-test phase, an in-test phase and a post-test phase. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 7352
• Polygraph examiner: means a person licensed under this chapter to use an instrument. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 7352
• Polygraph examiner internship: means a course of study of polygraph examinations and of the administration of polygraph examinations by an intern under the supervision and control of a polygraph examiner. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 7352