§ 4101 Short Title
§ 4102 Findings and declaration of necessity
§ 4103 Definitions

Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 35-A > Part 3 > Chapter 41 > Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

  • 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: means the Maine Municipal and Rural Electrification Cooperative Agency. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4103
  • Climate action plan: means the state plan adopted under section 577. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 574
  • Commission: means the Public Utilities Commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 1111
  • Cooperative: means any corporation organized as of January 1, 1981, under chapter 37 or former Title 35, chapters 221 to 227 on a cooperative plan under the laws of the State and supplying or authorized to supply electricity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4103
  • 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.
  • Dam: means any artificial barrier, including appurtenant works, the site on which it is located and appurtenant rights of flowage and access, that impounds or diverts water, and that:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 1111
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Emergency: means breaches and all conditions leading to or causing a breach, overtopping or any other condition in a dam and its appurtenant structures that may be construed as unsafe or threatening to life and property. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 1111
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Greenhouse gas: includes , but is not limited to, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 574
  • Gross annual greenhouse gas emissions: means the total amount of greenhouse gases emitted by all sources within the State each year. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 574
  • 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.
  • Municipality: means any municipal, plantation or quasi-municipal electric, or electric and utility, corporation, or municipal electric, or electric and utility, system within the State which, as of January 1, 1981, was authorized to and engaged in the manufacture, generation, transmission, distribution, purchase or sale of electricity to the general public. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4103
  • Net annual greenhouse gas emissions: means gross annual greenhouse gas emissions less the total amount of greenhouse gases absorbed each year by plants and natural ecosystems, including, but not limited to, trees, crops, soil and wetlands within the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 574
  • New England power pool: means the relationship or organization created by the New England power pool agreement. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4103
  • New England power pool agreement: means the contractual agreement between electric utilities which is open to all electric utilities, whether private or governmental, operating in New England, which provides for cooperation and joint participation in developing and implementing a regional bulk power supply of electricity, which constitutes the central dispatching and primary pooling arrangements for electric utilities in the New England states, and which has been permitted to become effective under the Federal Power Act by the Federal Power Commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4103
  • Person: means person as defined in section 102 or any public agency, state or political subdivision or agency of the State, or any body politic of any nature organized and existing under the law of any state, the United States, any Province of Canada and also includes Canada, its provinces and all political subdivisions, departments, agencies and instrumentalities of Canada. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4103
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Project: means any plant, works, system or facilities inside or outside the State, and real and personal property of any nature or any interest in any of them, together with all parts of them and appurtenances to them, used or useful in the generation, production, transmission, distribution, purchase, sale, exchange or interchange of electricity and in the acquisition, extraction, conversion, transportation or storage or reprocessing of fuel of any kind for any purposes or an interest in, or the right to the use, services, output or capacity of a plant quota, works, system or facilities; provided that "project" does not include construction of nuclear generating facilities or the storage, reprocessing or transportation of nuclear fuel within the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4103
  • Project cost: means , but is not limited to, the cost of acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement, enlargement, betterment, extension or disposal of a project or part of a project, including:
    • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4103
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Sector: means one of the 5 sectors identified in the climate change action plan adopted by the Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers in August 2001. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 574
  • United States: includes territories and the District of Columbia. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72