Maine Revised Statutes > Title 38 > Chapter 17 – Maine Refuse Disposal District Enabling Act
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| Subchapter 1 | General Provisions | 1701 – 1707 |
| Subchapter 2 | Organization | 1721 – 1729 |
| Subchapter 3 | Powers | 1731 – 1741 |
| Subchapter 4 | Bonds and Notes | 1751 – 1757 |
Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 38 > Chapter 17 - Maine Refuse Disposal District Enabling Act
- Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
- commercial activities: includes any solid waste generated by retail and wholesale establishments, including, but not limited to, food waste, corrugated containerboard, metals and plastics. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705
- Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Demand: means the demand, as provided in section 203, by the executive authority of another state upon the Governor of this State for the extradition of a fugitive from justice. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 201
- Demolition and construction waste: means all solid waste generated in the demolition and construction of buildings and other structures, including stumps, brush, plaster, sheetrock, boards, bricks, mortar, concrete and roofing materials except asbestos. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705
- Disposal: means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any solid waste into or on any land or water in a manner such that the solid waste, or any constituent of the solid waste, may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any water, including ground waters. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705
- disposal district: means any district formed under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705
- Disposal property: means property used for disposal. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705
- 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
- Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
- Executive authority: includes the Governor and any person performing the functions of governor in a state other than this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 201
- Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
- 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.
- Fugitive from justice: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 201Generation: means the act or process of producing solid waste. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705 Governor: includes any person performing the functions of Governor by authority of the law of this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 201 Handle: means to store, transfer, collect, separate, salvage, process, reduce, recover, incinerate, treat or dispose of. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705 industrial activities: includes any solid waste generated by an industry as part of the production process. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705 Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury. Joint meeting: An occasion, often ceremonial, when the House and Senate each adopt a unanimous consent agreement lands: includes lands and all tenements and hereditaments connected therewith, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity. Month: means a calendar month. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money. Municipal officer: means municipal officer as defined in Title 30?A, section 2001, and includes the assessors of a plantation and county commissioners acting on behalf of the residents of any unorganized territory within their county under Title 30?A, chapter 305. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705 Municipal officers: means the mayor and municipal officers or councilors of a city, the members of the select board or councilors of a town and the assessors of a plantation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Municipality: means municipality as defined in Title 30?A, section 2001, and includes plantations and unorganized territories. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705 Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land. registered mail: when used in connection with any requirement for notice by mail shall mean either registered mail or certified mail. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Resource conservation: means the reduction of amounts of solid waste which is generated and the reduction of overall resource consumption. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705 Resource recovery: means the recovery of materials or substances that still have useful physical or chemical properties after serving a specific purpose and can be reused or recycled for the same or other purposes and the conversion of waste to energy. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705 Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action. Revenues: means the proceeds of bonds, all revenues, rates, tolls, assessments, rents, tipping fees, transportation charges and other charges and receipts derived by the district from the operation of a waste facility and other properties, including, but not limited to, investment earnings and the proceeds of insurance, condemnation, sale or other disposition of properties, and must include proceeds from assessments where the power of assessment has been granted to the district under section 1755. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705 Solid waste: means useless, unwanted or discarded, nonhazardous solid materials with insufficient liquid content to be free flowing, including, but not limited to, rubbish, garbage, scrap materials, junk, refuse, inert fill material and landscape refuse. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705 Transport: means the movement of solid waste from the point of generation to any intermediate points and finally to the point of ultimate disposition. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705 Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. Source: OCC User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services. Waste facility: means any land area, structure, location or equipment, or combination of them, including landfills, used for handling solid waste and for resource conservation and resource recovery, when utilized. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705 Waste management: means purposeful, systematic and unified control of the handling, transportation and disposal of solid waste. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705 Yard waste: means grass clippings, leaves and brush. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705