Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 38 > Chapter 3 > Subchapter 1 > Article 1-E - Marine Environmental Monitoring Program

• Agent: includes an original agent, coagent, successor agent and a person to whom an agent's authority is delegated. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 5-902
• Agriculture: means the production, keeping or maintenance for sale or lease of plants or animals, including, but not limited to, forages and sod crops, grains and seed crops, dairy animals and dairy products, poultry and poultry products, livestock, fruits and vegetables and ornamental and greenhouse products. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 436-A
• 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}
• Beverage: means beer, ale or other drink produced by fermenting malt, spirits, wine, hard cider, wine coolers, soda or noncarbonated water and all nonalcoholic carbonated or noncarbonated drinks in liquid form and intended for internal human consumption, except for unflavored rice milk, unflavored soymilk, milk and dairy-derived products. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 3102
• Conservator: includes a coconservator. 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.
• Department: means the Department of Environmental Protection. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 3102
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Good faith: means honesty in fact. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 5-902
• in the State: means within the exterior limits of the State and includes all territory within these limits owned by or ceded to the United States of America. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 3102
• initiator: means a manufacturer, distributor or other person who initiates a deposit on a beverage container under section 3103. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 3102
• 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.
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation or other legal entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 3102
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality or any other legal or commercial entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 5-902
• Power of attorney: means a writing or other record that grants authority to an agent to act in the place of the principal, whether or not the term "power of attorney" is used. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 5-902
• 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}
• Principal: means an individual who grants authority to an agent in a power of attorney. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 5-902
• Property: means anything that may be the subject of ownership, whether real or personal or legal or equitable, or any interest or right therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 5-902
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Redemption center: means a place of business that deals in acceptance of empty returnable beverage containers from either consumers or from dealers, or both, and that is licensed under section 3113. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 3102
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72