Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 36 > Part 2 > Chapter 105 > Subchapter 7 - Powers and Duties of Sheriffs

• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Chemical: means a substance with a distinct molecular composition or a group of structurally related substances and includes the breakdown products of the substance or substances that form through decomposition, degradation or metabolism. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1691
• Conservator: includes a coconservator. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 5-102
• Conservatorship estate: means the property subject to conservatorship under this Act. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 5-102
• 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.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Distributor: means a person who sells consumer products to retail establishments on a wholesale basis. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1691
• Domestic partner: means one of 2 unmarried adults who are domiciled together under long-term arrangements that evidence a commitment to remain responsible indefinitely for each other's welfare. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Individual subject to conservatorship: means an adult or minor for whom a conservator has been appointed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 5-102
• Letters of office: means judicial certification of guardianship or conservatorship. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 5-102
• manufacturer: includes the importer or first domestic distributor of the consumer product if the person who manufactured or assembled the consumer product or whose brand name is affixed to the consumer product does not have a presence in the United States. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1691
• Municipal officers: means the mayor, councillors and aldermen of cities, the members of the select board of towns and the assessors of plantations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 501
• Municipality: shall include cities, towns and plantations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 501
• Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, association, society, club, corporation, financial institution, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, assignee or any other group or combination acting as a unit, the State or Federal Government or any political subdivision or agency of either government. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111
• Person: means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality or other legal entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 5-102
• Place: shall include municipalities, townships and any other unorganized area. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 501
• Priority chemical: means a chemical identified as such by the department pursuant to section 1694, subsection 1. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1691
• Property: means anything that may be the subject of ownership and includes both real and personal property, tangible and intangible, or any interest therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 5-102
• Return: means any document, digital file or electronic data transmission containing information required by this Title to be reported to the State Tax Assessor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111
• State: includes an Indian tribe or band recognized by federal law or formally acknowledged by a state. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 5-102
• Tax: means the total amount required to be paid, withheld and paid over or collected and paid over with respect to estimated or actual tax liability under this Title, any credit or reimbursement allowed or paid pursuant to this Title that is recoverable by the assessor and any amount assessed by the assessor pursuant to this Title, including any interest or penalties provided by law. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111
• Tax collector: shall mean any person chosen, appointed or designated by a municipality or the officers thereof to collect any tax due a municipality; or his successor in office. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 501