Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 35-A > Part 3 > Chapter 31 > Subchapter 4 - Older Citizens Transmission and Distribution Service Policy

• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Disclaimant: means the person to whom a disclaimed interest or power would have passed had the disclaimer not been made. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 2-902
• Disclaimed interest: means the interest that would have passed to the disclaimant had the disclaimer not been made. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 2-902
• Disclaimer: means the refusal to accept an interest in or power over property. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 2-902
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiduciary: means a personal representative, trustee, agent acting under a power of attorney or other person authorized to act as a fiduciary with respect to the property of another person. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 2-902
• Jointly held property: means property held in the name of 2 or more persons under an arrangement in which all holders have concurrent interests and under which the last surviving holder is entitled to the whole of the property. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 2-902
• 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.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality, public corporation or any other legal or commercial entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 2-902
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• State: includes an Indian tribe or band or Alaskan native village recognized by federal law or formally acknowledged by a state. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 2-902
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Transmission and distribution utility: means a person, its lessees, trustees or receivers or trustees appointed by a court, owning, controlling, operating or managing a transmission and distribution plant for compensation within the State, except where the electricity is distributed by the entity that generates the electricity through private property alone solely for the use of: