Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 4 Sec. 1405

  • Currently effective annual salary: means the annual salary on June 30, 1984, of the position from which the judge retired, or if the judge died in office, the position that judge held at death, increased on July 1, 1984, and each succeeding July 1st, by 6% of the salary, as adjusted, on the immediately preceding June 30th. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 4 Sec. 1401
  • Judge: means any Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court or the Superior Court and any Judge of the District Court who retired prior to December 1, 1984, and includes Active Retired Judges who retired prior to December 1, 1984. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 4 Sec. 1401
  • Majority: when used in reference to age shall mean the age of 18 and over. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
Any judge who, prior to that judge’s retirement age, was unable, by reason of failing health, to perform that judge’s duties and who was retired by majority of the justices of the court upon which that judge was sitting when retired must receive annually during the remainder of that judge’s life a retirement benefit equal to 3/4 of the currently effective annual salary to be paid in the same manner as the salaries of the judges of that court from which that judge retired were paid prior to July 1, 1984. [RR 2021, c. 1, Pt. B, §47 (COR).]
SECTION HISTORY

PL 1983, c. 853, §§C15,18 (NEW). PL 1983, c. 863, §§B40,B45 (AMD). RR 2021, c. 1, Pt. B, §47 (COR).