Maine Revised Statutes > Title 5 > Part 20 > Chapter 423 > Subchapter 3


§ 17701	Member contributions
§ 17701-A	Member contributions; members hired after July 1, 1992
§ 17701-B	Member contributions on and after July 1, 1993
§ 17702	State payment of member share in lieu of member contribution
§ 17703	Former members
§ 17704-B	Back contributions for certain days off without pay
§ 17704-C	Continued eligibility to purchase back time
§ 17705-A	Refund of accumulated contributions
§ 17706-A	Inactive accounts
§ 17707	CETA service
§ 17707-A	Members in 1998 Special Plan; contributions after June 30, 1998
§ 17708	State police
§ 17708-A	State Police; members hired after July 1, 1992
§ 17708-B	State Police; contributions on and after July 1, 1993
§ 17709	Inland Fisheries and Wildlife officers
§ 17709-A	Inland fisheries and wildlife officers; members hired after July 1, 1992
§ 17709-B	Inland fisheries and wildlife officers; contributions on and after July 1, 1993
§ 17710	Marine Resources officers
§ 17710-A	Marine resources officers; members hired after July 1, 1992
§ 17710-B	Marine resources officers; contributions on and after July 1, 1993
§ 17711	Forest rangers
§ 17711-A	Forest rangers; members hired after July 1, 1992
§ 17711-B	Forest rangers; contributions on and after July 1, 1993
§ 17712	Maine State Prison employees
§ 17712-A	Maine State Prison employees; members hired after July 1, 1992
§ 17712-B	Maine State Prison employees; contributions on and after July 1, 1993
§ 17713	Armed forces
§ 17714	Baxter State Park Authority rangers
§ 17715	State fire marshals
§ 17716	Motor vehicle detectives

Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 5 > Part 20 > Chapter 423 > Subchapter 3 - Contributions

Abandoned ice-fishing shack: means a temporary structure used for ice fishing and left on property not owned by the person owning the structure without permission of the landowner. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 2263
Absentee voter: means a person who qualifies under section 751 to cast an absentee ballot. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1
Accessible voting system: means a voting system that is accessible for individuals with disabilities, including nonvisual accessibility for the blind and visually impaired, in a manner that provides the same opportunity for access and participation, including privacy and independence, as for other voters. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 808
accumulated contributions: includes as much of the employer's contribution in the Retirement Allowance Fund as is needed to reach 7. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
Actuarial equivalent: means an amount of equal value when computed at the discount rate contained in actuarial assumptions adopted by the board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
Actuary: means a member of the American Academy of Actuaries who is also a member of the Society of Actuaries or the Casualty Actuarial Society and is qualified to sign a statement of actuarial opinion. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201
Actuary: means the individual or the organization designated by the board to be the technical advisor to the board under section 17107. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
Adjusted risk-based capital report: means a risk-based capital report that has been adjusted by the superintendent in accordance with section 6452, subsection 3. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6451
Adult: means a person who has attained the age of 18 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
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.
Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
Agreement: means the bargain of the parties in fact, as found in their language or inferred from other circumstances and from rules, regulations and procedures given the effect of agreements under laws otherwise applicable to a particular transaction. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9402
Agricultural products: include floricultural, horticultural, viticultural, forestry, nut, dairy, livestock, poultry, bee and any farm products. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1774
Allegation: something that someone says happened.
Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
an event the result of which is determined by chance: includes but is not limited to a shuffle of a deck of cards, a roll of a die or dice or a random drawing or generation of an object that may include, but is not limited to, a card, a die, a number or simulations of any of these. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 1831
Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
another department: means a department of the State other than the Department of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 21
another program: means a program of the department not defined as a program in subsection 10 or a program of another department that is approved for addition to the EBT system. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 21
Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
Any election: means primary and general elections and referenda, whether regular or special. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1
Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
Appraisal: A determination of property value.
Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
Articles: means the articles of incorporation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1774
Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
Association: means a corporation organized under this subchapter, or a similar domestic corporation, or a foreign association or corporation if authorized to do business in this State, organized under any general or special Act as a cooperative association for the mutual benefit of its members, as agricultural producers, and which confines its operations to purposes authorized by this subchapter and restricts the return on the stock or membership capital and the amount of its business with nonmembers to the limits placed thereon by this subchapter for associations organized hereunder. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1774
Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
Authority: means the Finance Authority of Maine. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9201
Authorized control level risk-based capital: means the number determined under the risk-based capital formula in accordance with the risk-based capital instructions; and [PL 1993, c. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6451
Automated transaction: means a transaction conducted or performed, in whole or in part, by electronic means or electronic records in which the acts or records of one or both parties are not reviewed by an individual in the ordinary course of forming a contract, performing under an existing contract or fulfilling an obligation required by the transaction. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9402
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.
Ballot label: means that portion of the cardboard, paper or other material to be placed within the ballot frames of a voting machine containing the items required of a paper ballot. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1
Ballot labels: means the pages, cards or other material containing the names of offices and candidates and the referendum questions to be voted on that are placed on the voting device to conform with the voting system in use. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 808
Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
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}
Benefit: means any payment made, or required to be made, to a beneficiary under chapter 423, subchapter V or chapter 425, subchapter V. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
Bereavement services: means emotional support services related to the death of a family member, including, but not limited to, counseling, provision of written material, social reorientation and group support for up to one year following the death of the client who was terminally ill. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8621
Block group: means an area comprising all of the blocks within a tract or BNA whose census data labels begin with the same digit. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1202
BNA: means that area composed of blocks or block groups that is defined as a block numbering area in the United States Census for 1990. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1202
Board: means the board of directors. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1774
Board: means the board of trustees, established under section 12004?F, subsection 9, to administer the Maine Public Employees Retirement System. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
Board: means the Technical Building Codes and Standards Board established in Title 5, section 12004?G, subsection 5?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9721
Board: means the Board of Directors of the Maine Health Data Organization established pursuant to section 8703. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8702
Brand-name drug: means a prescription drug marketed under a proprietary name or registered trademark name, including a biological product. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8731
Building code: means any part or portion of any edition of a code that regulates the construction of a building, including codes published by the International Code Council or Building Officials and Code Administrators International, Inc. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9721
Business day: means any day of the calendar year other than a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1
Buyer: means a person who buys or contracts to buy goods. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 2-103
Candidate: means any person who has filed a petition under either sections 335 and 336 or sections 354 and 355 and has qualified as a candidate by either procedure, or any person who has received contributions or made expenditures or has given consent for any other person to receive contributions or make expenditures with the intent of qualifying as a candidate. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1
Card game: means a game of chance conducted using one or more decks of cards, such as poker, blackjack or cribbage. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 1831
Care plan: means a written service delivery plan that the interdisciplinary team, in conjunction with the client, shall develop to reflect the changing care needs of the client. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8621
Carrier: means an insurance company licensed in accordance with Title 24?A, including a health maintenance organization, a multiple employer welfare arrangement licensed pursuant to Title 24?A, chapter 81, a preferred provider organization, a fraternal benefit society or a nonprofit hospital or medical service organization or health plan licensed pursuant to Title 24. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8702
Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
Caucus: means a meeting of a political party or committee. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1
Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
Census unit: means a block, block group, BNA or tract. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1202
Central voter registration system: means a single electronic information system and database for voter registration information maintained by the Secretary of State and used by all municipal jurisdictions in the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1
Certified candidate: means a candidate running for Governor, State Senator or State Representative who chooses to participate in the Maine Clean Election Act and who is certified as a Maine Clean Election Act candidate under section 1125, subsection 5. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1122
Challenged ballot: means a ballot cast by one whose eligibility to vote has been questioned during election day. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1
Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
Child or children: means a person who has not attained the age of 18 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
Circulate: means the presenting of a petition to a voter with an accompanying request that the voter sign it. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1
Client: means the person who is receiving the hospice services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8621
Clinical data: includes but is not limited to the data required to be submitted by providers and payors pursuant to sections 8708 and 8711. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8702
Closed period: means that time period when the registrar may accept only those voter registration applications presented in person. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1
Code: means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
Codicil: An addition, change, or supplement to a will executed with the same formalities required for the will itself.
Commercial purpose: means for the purpose of economic gain. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 2263
Commercial vehicle: means a vehicle owned or used by a business, corporation, association, partnership, or the sole proprietorship of any entity conducting business for a commercial purpose. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 2263
Commission: means the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices established by Title 5, section 12004?G, subsection 33. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1122
Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 1-A
Company action level risk-based capital: means , with respect to any insurer, the product of 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6451
Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
Computer program: means a set of statements or instructions to be used directly or indirectly in an information processing system in order to bring about a certain result. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9402
container: means any and all packages or containers used for the purpose of containing a product sold or held out for sale for human or animal consumption. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 2263
Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
Continuing care: means furnishing shelter for the life of the individual or for a period in excess of one year and either health care, supportive services, or both, under an agreement requiring prepayment as defined in subsection 12, whether or not the shelter and services are provided at the same location, to 3 or more older individuals not related by blood or marriage to the providers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201
Contract: means the total legal obligation resulting from the parties' agreement as affected by this chapter and other applicable law. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9402
Contract for sale: includes both a present sale of goods and a contract to sell goods at a future time. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 2-106
Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
Corporation: means the Northern Maine Transmission Corporation established in section 9202, subsection 1. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9201
Corrective order: means an order issued by the superintendent specifying corrective actions that the superintendent has determined are required. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6451
Council: means the Maine Hospice Council established by section 8611. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8621
Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
County office: means the office of judge of probate, register of probate, county treasurer, register of deeds, sheriff, district attorney or county commissioner. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1
Creditable service: means a person's membership service, the person's prior service and service for which credit is allowable under sections 17755 and 17756; section 17760, subsection 3; section 18258; sections 18355 and 18356; and section 18360, subsection 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
Day care center: means a child care facility, as defined in Title 22, section 8301?A, subsection 1?A, paragraph B. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 2871
Debit card: means an encoded plastic card distributed by the department or another department or a contractor with that department for use in an automated teller machine or a point of sale device. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 21
Decedent: A deceased person.
Declared state disaster or emergency: means a disaster or emergency event for which a Governor's state of emergency proclamation has been issued pursuant to Title 37-B, section 742 or that the President of the United States has declared to be a major disaster or emergency. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9902
Declared write-in candidate: means a write-in candidate who has filed a declaration to be a write-in candidate pursuant to section 722?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1
Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
Department: means the Department of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 1-A
Department: means the Department of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201
Department: means any department, commission, institution or agency of State Government including the Maine Community College System. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
Department: means the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 2263
Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
Devise: To gift property by will.
Digital signature: means a computer-created electronic signature that:

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9502

Direct recording electronic voting machine: means a system that records votes by means of a ballot display provided with mechanical, electro-optical or electro-audio components that can be activated by the voter, that processes data by means of a computer program and that records voting data in memory components. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 808

Direct service provider: means employees or volunteers who provide hospice services directly to a client. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8621

Director: means the Executive Director of the Gambling Control Unit. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 1831

Disaster period: means the period of time that begins no later than 10 days following the Governor's proclamation of a state of emergency or the declaration by the President of the United States of a major disaster or emergency, whichever occurs first, and that extends for a period of 60 calendar days following the end of the declared disaster or emergency as proclaimed by the Governor pursuant to Title 37-B, section 743 or the President of the United States or pursuant to law, whichever occurs first. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9902

Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.

Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:

Disputed ballot: means a ballot whose validity has been questioned during the recount process. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Distinguishing mark: means a mark on a ballot of a type or in a place not specifically permitted by this Title, which indicates the apparent intent of the voter to make the voter's ballot distinguishable in a manner that is fraudulent or inconsistent with an honest purpose. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Distributor: means a person, firm, corporation, association or organization, other than an Internet raffle operator, that sells, markets or otherwise distributes sealed tickets, gambling apparatus or any other implements of gambling that may be used in the conduct of a game of chance. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 1831

division: means the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Licensing and Regulatory Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7701

Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.

Domestic association: means an association or corporation formed under the laws of this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1774

Domestic insurer: means any insurance company domiciled in this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6451

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

Drug product family: means a group of one or more prescription drugs that share a unique generic drug description and drug form. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8731

Earnable compensation: includes :

(1) Workers' compensation benefits;

(2) Maintenance, if any;

(3) Any money paid by an employer to a 3rd party under a tax sheltered annuity contract or a deferred compensation plan for the future benefit of an employee provided that the money is not derived from amounts excluded from earnable compensation by paragraph B; and

(4) Pick-up contributions. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001

EBT: means a system for the delivery of benefits to recipients by means of credit or debit card services, automated teller machines, point of sale devices or access to online systems for the withdrawal of funds or the processing of a payment for merchandise or a service. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 21

EBT card: means a card issued by the department under an electronic benefits transfer system for the delivery of benefits to recipients. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 21

Election cycle: means the period beginning on the day after the general election for any state, county or municipal office and ending on the day of the next general election for that office. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1122

Election official: means a warden, ward clerk, deputy warden or election clerk. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Election year: means the calendar year within which a particular election is held. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Elections determined by ranked-choice voting: means any of the following elections in which 3 or more candidates have qualified to be listed on the ballot for a particular office or at least 2 such candidates plus one or more declared write?in candidates have qualified for that particular office:

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Electoral division: means an area set off for election purposes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic or similar capabilities. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9402

Electronic agent: means a computer program or an electronic or other automated means used independently to initiate an action or respond to electronic records or performances, in whole or in part, without review or action by an individual. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9402

Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) ^{Source: OCC}

Electronic record: means a record created, generated, sent, communicated, received or stored by electronic means. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9402

Electronic signature: means an electronic sound, symbol or process attached to or logically associated with a record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9402

Electronic tabulating system: includes all the software and firmware required to program and control the equipment in the respective system. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 808

Electronic video machine: means a machine, however operated, that has a video screen featuring an electronically simulated game and delivers or entitles the person playing or operating it to receive the privilege of playing the electronic video machine without charge, but does not deliver or entitle the person playing or operating the electronic video machine to receive cash, premiums, merchandise, tickets or something of value other than the privilege of playing the electronic video machine without charge. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 1831

Employee: means :

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001

Enroll: means to enlist as a member of a political party. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.

Entrance fee: means an initial payment of a sum of money or any other consideration that assures a subscriber a place in a facility for a term of years or for life. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201

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.

Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.

Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.

Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent

Facility: means a physical plant in which continuing care is provided in accordance with this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201

facility: means any of the places defined in section 8001, 8101, 8201 or 8301?A, subsection 1?A, paragraph B. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7701

fair: means a nonprofit agricultural fair society eligible for a stipend under Title 7, chapter 4. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 1831

Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.

Family: means a spouse, primary caregiver, biological relatives and individuals with close personal ties to the client. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8621

federal Affordable Care Act: means the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public Law 111-148, as amended by the federal Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, Public Law 111-152, and any amendments to or regulations or guidance issued under those acts. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 14

Federal office: means the office of the United States Senator or Representative to Congress. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}

Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.

Financial data: includes but is not limited to financial information required to be submitted pursuant to section 8709. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8702

Fiscal year: means the provider's fiscal year. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201

Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}

Foreign association: means an association or corporation not formed under the laws of this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1774

Foreign insurer: means any insurance company that is authorized to do business in this State under section 404 but is not domiciled in this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6451

Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}

Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.

Fund: means the Northern Maine Transmission Corporation Fund established in section 9204. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9201

Fund: means the Maine Clean Election Fund established in section 1124. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1122

Game of chance: means a game, contest, scheme or device in which:

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 1831

Game of skill: means any game, contest, scheme or device in which a person stakes or risks something of value for the opportunity to win something of value and that is not a game of chance. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 1831

General election: means the regular election of state and county officials occurring biennially in November. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Generic drug: includes a biosimilar product. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8731

Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.

Governing body: means the entity that establishes policy and is legally responsible for the overall operation of a hospice program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8621

Governmental agency: means an executive, legislative or judicial agency, department, board, commission, authority, institution or instrumentality of the Federal Government or of a state or of a county, municipality or other political subdivision of a state. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9402

Gross revenue: means the total amount wagered in a game of chance less the prizes awarded. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 1831

Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}

Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.

Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.

Health care: means the provision of any one or more of the following services:

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201

Health care facility: means a public or private, proprietary or not-for-profit entity or institution providing health services, including, but not limited to, a radiological facility licensed under chapter 160, a health care facility licensed under chapter 405, an independent radiological service center, a federally qualified health center certified by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, a rural health clinic or rehabilitation agency certified or otherwise approved by the Division of Licensing and Regulatory Services within the Department of Health and Human Services, a home health care provider licensed under chapter 419, an assisted living facility or a residential care facility licensed under chapter 1663, a hospice provider licensed under chapter 1681, a state institution as defined under Title 34?B, chapter 1 and a mental health facility licensed under Title 34?B, chapter 1. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8702

Health care practitioner: has the meaning provided in Title 24, section 2502, subsection 1?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8702

health insurance: means insurance of human beings against bodily injury, disablement or death by accident or accidental means, or the expense thereof, or against disablement or expense resulting from sickness, and every insurance appertaining thereto, including provision for the mental and emotional welfare of human beings by defraying the costs of legal services only to the extent provided for in chapter 38. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 704

High-hand competition: means a game of chance conducted during a tournament game in which the winner is the person who plays the highest hand of cards, according to the rules of the tournament, during the tournament game. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 1831

HIPAA: means the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8702

Hospice philosophy: means a philosophy of palliative care for individuals and families during the process of dying and bereavement. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8621

hospice provider: means a distinct, clearly recognizable entity that exists to provide hospice services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8621

Hospice services: means a range of interdisciplinary services provided on a 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week basis to a person who is terminally ill and that person's family. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8621

Immediate family: means a person's spouse, parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, sister, half-sister, brother, half-brother, stepparent, stepgrandparent, stepchild, stepgrandchild, stepsister, stepbrother, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, guardian, former guardian, domestic partner, the half-brother or half-sister of a person's spouse, or the spouse of a person's half-brother or half-sister. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.

Incoming voting list: means the printed list of all of the voters in a municipality that is used by election officials at a voting place to record which voters have been issued a ballot at an election. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Independent agricultural contractor: means a person who grows under contract, or who harvests or hauls forest products under contract, as the person's primary activity or as part of a general agricultural activity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1774

Information: means data, text, images, sounds, codes, computer programs, software, databases or the like. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9402

Information processing system: means an electronic system for creating, generating, sending, receiving, storing, displaying or processing information. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9402

Infrastructure: includes , without limitation, real and personal property such as buildings, offices, power lines, poles, pipes, structures and equipment; and [PL 2011, c. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9902

Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.

Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.

interdisciplinary team: means a group comprised of at least a medical director, a licensed nurse, a licensed social worker, a pastoral or other counselor and a volunteer coordinator or representative. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8621

Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}

Internet raffle: means a raffle in which a person purchases a raffle chance or ticket through, and a winner or winning chances are determined by, a digital platform that involves, at least in part, the use of the Internet. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 1831

Internet raffle operator: means a person, firm, corporation, association or organization licensed under section 1837?B, subsection 2 to conduct an Internet raffle using an Internet raffle system. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 1831

Internet raffle system: means a mobile application or other digital platform and the accompanying computer software approved by the Gambling Control Unit under section 1837?B, subsection 4 for use in conducting an Internet raffle. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 1831

Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.

Joint meeting: An occasion, often ceremonial, when the House and Senate each adopt a unanimous consent agreement

Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.

Jurisprudence: The study of law and the structure of the legal system.

Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}

Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. ^{Source: U.S. Mint}

Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).

Licensee: means a firm, corporation, association or organization licensed by the Gambling Control Unit to operate a game of chance. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 1831

Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.

Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).

Life or health insurer: means any insurance company described in section 409, subsection 3 and authorized to do business in this State under section 410, or a licensed property and casualty insurer writing only accident and health insurance. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6451

Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.

Litter: includes waste materials resulting from or associated with the use of tobacco products, including, but not limited to, cigarette butts, all waste materials resulting from the outdoor release or abandonment of a balloon and all waste materials resulting from the use of consumer fireworks. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 2263

Local district: means :

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001

Machine: means any machine, including electronic devices, however operated, the internal mechanism or components of which when set in motion or activated and by the application of the element of chance may deliver or entitle the person playing or operating the machine to receive cash, premiums, merchandise, tickets or something of value as defined in subsection 17. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 1831

Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code: means the uniform statewide building and energy code adopted by the board pursuant to this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9721

Maine Uniform Building Code: means that portion of the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code that does not contain energy code requirements as determined by the board pursuant to section 9722, subsection 6, paragraph B. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9721

Maine Uniform Energy Code: means that portion of the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code that contains only energy code requirements as determined by the board pursuant to section 9722, subsection 6, paragraph B. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9721

Major party: means a political party polling the greatest or the next greatest number of votes cast for Governor at the last gubernatorial election. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Majority: when used in reference to age shall mean the age of 18 and over. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72

Managed care organization: means an organization that manages and controls medical services, including but not limited to a health maintenance organization, a preferred provider organization, a competitive medical plan, a managed indemnity insurance program and a nonprofit hospital and medical service organization, licensed in the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8702

Mandatory control level risk-based capital: means the product of . See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6451

Manufacturer: means an entity that manufactures or repackages, and sets the wholesale acquisition cost for, prescription drugs that are distributed in the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8731

Marketing contract: includes a contract related to the marketing of agricultural products and a contract by an independent agricultural contractor for furnishing services and facilities in raising or growing agricultural products. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1774

may: when used in this Title, is used in a permissive sense to grant authority or permission, but not to create duty, to act in the manner specified by the context. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 7

Medicaid: means the Medicaid program under the provisions of the United States Social Security Act, Title XIX, and successors to it, and related rules of the department pursuant to chapter 855. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 21

Medical director: means a licensed physician who oversees the medical components of hospice services and serves on the interdisciplinary team. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8621

Medicare health plan sponsor: means a health insurance carrier or other private company authorized by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to administer Medicare Part C and Part D benefits under a health plan or prescription drug plan. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8702

Member: means any person included in the membership of a retirement program of the retirement system, as provided in chapter 423, subchapter 2, or chapter 425, subchapter 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001

Member: means a bona fide member of a firm, corporation, association, organization, department or class or a combination thereof who has been duly admitted as a member according to the laws, rules, regulations, ordinances or bylaws governing membership in the firm, corporation, association, organization, department, class or combination thereof. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 1831

Member: includes the holder of a membership in an association without capital stock and the holder of common stock in an association organized with capital stock. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1774

Minor: means a person who has not attained 18 years of age. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 2011

Minor party: means a political party other than a major party. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Mobile home: means a structure, transportable in one or more sections, which:

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9091

Mobile home park: means any parcel of land under single or common ownership or control which contains, or is designed, laid out or adapted to accommodate 2 or more mobile homes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9091

Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.

Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.

municipal clerk: means the clerk, deputy clerk or assistant clerk, where directed by the clerk to carry out duties under this Title, of a municipality. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Municipal committee: means a city, town or ward committee of a political party. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Municipal officers: means the mayor and aldermen or councillors of a city, the members of the select board or councillors of a town and the assessors of a plantation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Municipality: means a city, town or plantation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Municipality: includes cities, towns and plantations, except that "municipality" does not include plantations in Title 10, chapter 110, subchapter IV; or Title 30?A, Part 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72

National Association of Insurance Commissioners: means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or its successor organization of insurance regulators. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 15

Negative trend: means :

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6451

Net revenue: means gross revenue less allowable expenses as described in section 1838. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 1831

Nonlicensed carrier: means a health insurance carrier that is not required to obtain a license in accordance with Title 24?A and pays health care claims on behalf of residents of this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8702

Nonparticipating candidate: means a candidate running for Governor, State Senator or State Representative who does not choose to participate in the Maine Clean Election Act and who is not seeking to be certified as a Maine Clean Election Act candidate under section 1125, subsection 5. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1122

Normal retirement age: means the specified age, the years of service requirement or any combination of age and years of service requirements at which a member becomes eligible for retirement benefits and at which those benefits may not be reduced under section 17852, subsection 3 or 3?A; section 17852, subsection 10, paragraph C; and section 18452, subsection 3. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001

Normal wear and tear: means that deterioration which occurs, without negligence, carelessness, accident or abuse of the premises or equipment by the tenant, members of the tenant's household or their invitees or guests. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9091

Nurse supervisor: means a licensed registered nurse with education, experience and training in hospice nursing care who is designated by the program director to oversee nursing services for the hospice program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8621

Nursery school: means nursery school, as defined in Title 22, section 8401. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 2871

Oath: includes an affirmation, when affirmation is allowed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72

Oath: A promise to tell the truth.

Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.

Official tally tape: means the first tape produced by an electronic tabulating machine that tallies the final vote totals at the conclusion of voting and that is attached to the zero tape produced by the machine prior to the start of voting. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Organization: means the Maine Health Data Organization established under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8702

Out-of-state business: includes a business entity that is affiliated with a registered business solely through common ownership as long as that business entity does not have any registrations, tax filings or nexus in the State prior to the declared state disaster or emergency. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9902

Out-of-state employee: means an individual who performs services for an out-of-state business in return for compensation and who, prior to the declared state disaster or emergency, was not a resident of this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9902

Outpatient services: means all therapeutic or diagnostic health care services rendered to a person who has not been admitted to a hospital as an inpatient. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8702

Overseas voter: means :

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.

paper ballot: means the printed paper ballot on which votes may be recorded in the layout and format required to conform to the electronic voting system in use. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 808

Parents as Scholars: means the program established in chapter 1054?B. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 21

Participating candidate: means a candidate who is running for Governor, State Senator or State Representative who is seeking to be certified as a Maine Clean Election Act candidate under section 1125, subsection 5. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1122

Participating local district: means a local district that has approved the participation of its employees in the Participating Local District Retirement Program of the retirement system under section 18201. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001

Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.

Party: means a political organization which has qualified to participate in a primary or general election under chapter 5. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Payor: means a 3rd-party payor, 3rd-party administrator, Medicare health plan sponsor, pharmacy benefits manager or nonlicensed carrier. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8702

Peace officer: means state police officer, local police officer, sheriff, deputy sheriff or constable. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, governmental agency, public corporation or any other legal or commercial entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9402

Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership or unincorporated association. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 2011

Person: means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation or organization of any kind whatsoever. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 2263

Person: includes an individual, a partnership, a corporation and an association. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1774

Personal property: All property that is not real property.

Pick-up contributions: means member contributions to the retirement system which are assumed and paid by the employer through a reduction of members' salaries for services rendered, in accordance with the United States Internal Revenue Code, Section 414(h), in lieu of employee contributions. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001

Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.

Plan sponsor: means any person, other than an insurer, who establishes or maintains a plan covering residents of this State, including, but not limited to, plans established or maintained by 2 or more employers or jointly by one or more employers and one or more employee organizations or the association, committee, joint board of trustees or other similar group of representatives of the parties that establish or maintain the plan. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8702

Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.

Point of sale device: means a machine that accepts a debit card distributed to recipients; electronically processes transactions at the vendor's place of business; and records and reports individual recipient benefit entitlement and distribution. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 21

Political committee: means 2 or more persons associated for the purpose of promoting or defeating a candidate, party or principle. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Pollwatcher: means a party worker who remains in the voting place outside the guardrail enclosure for the purpose of viewing the voting process, keeping track of the voters who have voted or challenging voters whose qualifications appear to be in question. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Population: means the population determined by the last Decennial Census of the United States. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

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}

Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.

Preschool facility: means any day care center or nursery school. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 2871

Prescription drug: means a drug, as defined in 21 United States Code § 321(g) or a biological product as defined in 42 United States Code § 262(i)(1) that:

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8731

present sale: means a sale which is accomplished by the making of the contract. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 2-106

Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.

Pricing component data: means data unique to each manufacturer, wholesale drug distributor or pharmacy benefits manager subject to this subchapter that evidences the cost to each manufacturer, wholesale drug distributor or pharmacy benefits manager to make a prescription drug available to consumers and the payments received by each manufacturer, wholesale drug distributor or pharmacy benefits manager to make a prescription drug available to consumers, taking into account any price concessions, and that is measured uniformly among the entities, as determined by rules adopted by the organization pursuant to section 8737. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8731

Pricing unit: means the smallest dispensable amount of a prescription drug that could be dispensed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8731

Primary election: means the regular election for the election of nominees of a party for the general election. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Primary physician: means the physician identified by the client or by the person authorized to make decisions for the client pursuant to a durable health care power of attorney. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8621

Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.

Probate: Proving a will

Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.

Producers: includes independent agricultural contractors. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1774

Program: means SNAP or the Medicaid program or another program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 21

Program director: means the person designated by the governing body of a hospice program as responsible for the day-to-day operations of the program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8621

Property and casualty insurer: means any insurance company authorized to do business in this State under section 410 except a life or health insurer or single line mortgage guaranty insurer, financial guaranty insurer or title insurer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6451

Protected health information: includes :

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8702

Provider: means the owner of an institution, building, residence or other place, whether operated for profit or not, in which the owner undertakes to provide continuing care. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201

Provider: means a health care facility, health care practitioner, health product manufacturer or health product vendor but does not include a retail pharmacy. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8702

Public counter: means a separate counter built into a voting device that records the total number of ballots cast or tabulated on the voting device for an election. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.

Public official: means a person elected or appointed to serve the people, including but not limited to an election official, municipal clerk or registrar. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Public place: means any area that is used or held out for use by the public whether or not owned or operated by public or private interests. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 2263

Public school: includes :

(1) Any public school conducted within the State under the authority and supervision of a duly elected board of education, superintending school committee or school directors; and

(2) Any school which received any direct state aid in 1950 and municipal tuition funds amounting to at least the amount of that state aid during 1950. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001

Qualifying contribution: means a donation:

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1122

Qualifying period: means the following. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1122

Quality data: means information on health care quality required to be submitted pursuant to section 8708?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8702

Question: means any proposition submitted to the voters. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.

Raffle: means a game of chance in which:

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 1831

Ranked-choice voting: means the method of casting and tabulating votes in which voters rank candidates in order of preference, tabulation proceeds in sequential rounds in which last-place candidates are defeated and the candidate with the most votes in the final round is elected. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Real estate: includes lands and all tenements and hereditaments connected therewith, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72

Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.

Recipient: means a recipient of benefits under SNAP or the Medicaid program or another program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 21

Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9402

Records: means the financial and other information and personnel data maintained by the provider for the proper operation of the facility pursuant to this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201

Referendum: means an election for the determination of a question. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Registered business: means a business entity that is registered or licensed to do business in the State prior to the declared state disaster or emergency. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9902

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

Registrant: means a person or organization registered with the Gambling Control Unit to conduct a game of chance, a raffle or certain tournament games, for which a license is not required under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 1831

Registrar: means the registrar or deputy registrar of voters of a municipality. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Regular interest: means interest at the rate set from time to time by the board in accordance with section 17156. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001

Regulatory action level risk-based capital: means the product of 1. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6451

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.

Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.

Residence: means that place where the person has established a fixed and principal home to which the person, whenever temporarily absent, intends to return. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Residence address: means the street and number or other designation indicating the physical location of a person's residence. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Responsible electoral official: means a public official who is responsible for accepting a nomination or nomination petition for an elected office and also means a public official who is responsible for placing the name of a person nominated for public office on a ballot, ballot label, calendar or other similar instrument. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 552

Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.

Restructuring data: means reports, charts and information required to be submitted pursuant to section 8710. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8702

Retirement: means termination of membership with a retirement allowance granted under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001

Retirement allowance: means the retirement payments to which a member is or may be entitled as provided in this Part. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001

Retirement benefit: means the same as retirement allowance. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001

Retirement system: means the Maine Public Employees Retirement System. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001

Right of rescission: Right to cancel, within three business days, a contract that uses the home of a person as collateral, except in the case of a first mortgage loan. There is no fee to the borrower, who receives a full refund of all fees paid. The right of rescission is guaranteed by the Truth in Lending Act (TILA). ^{Source: OCC}

Risk-based capital instructions: means the risk-based capital instructions adopted by the NAIC, as such risk-based capital instructions may be amended by the NAIC from time to time in accordance with the procedures adopted by the NAIC. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6451

Risk-based capital level: means an insurer's company action level risk-based capital, regulatory action level risk-based capital, authorized control level risk-based capital or mandatory control level risk-based capital where:

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6451

Risk-based capital plan: means a comprehensive financial plan containing the elements specified in section 6453, subsection 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6451

Risk-based capital report: means the report required in section 6452. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6451

Roulette: means a game of chance in which players bet on the compartment of a revolving wheel into which a small ball will come to rest. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 1831

Salvia divinorum: means the herb Salvia divinorum and includes Salvinorin A and Divinorin A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 2011

Security deposit: means any advance or deposit of money, the primary function of which is to secure the performance of a rental agreement for a mobile home, including premises used solely for the storage or display of mobile homes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9091

Security procedure: includes a procedure that requires the use of algorithms or other codes, identifying words or numbers, encryption or callback or other acknowledgment procedures. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9402

Seed money contribution: means a contribution of no more than $100 per individual made to a participating candidate, including the candidate or the candidate's spouse or domestic partner. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1122

Seller: means a person who sells or contracts to sell goods. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 2-103

Service: means service as an employee for which compensation was paid. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001

Service credit: means credit received for creditable service as defined under subsection 10. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001

Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.

Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.

Signature: includes a signature stamp and a signature written by another registered voter on behalf of an individual in accordance with the procedure set forth in section 153?A and, for an individual who is unable to sign that individual's own name, a mark. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

SNAP: means the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program established pursuant to section 3104. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 21

Social gambling: means a contest of chance in which the only participants are players and from which no person or organization receives or becomes entitled to receive something of value or any profit whatsoever, directly or indirectly, other than as a player, from any source, fee, remuneration connected with gambling or such activity as arrangements or facilitation of the game, permitting the use of premises or selling or supplying for-profit refreshments, food, drink service or entertainment to participants, players or spectators. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 1831

Something of value: means :

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 1831

Special election: means an election other than a regular election. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

State: includes an Indian tribe or band or Alaskan native village that is recognized by federal law or formally acknowledged by a state. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9402

State agency: means a state department, agency, office, board, commission, quasi-independent agency, authority or institution. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9502

State employee: means any regular classified or unclassified officer or employee in a department, any employee of the Maine Community College System except those who make the election provided under Title 20?A, section 12722, any employee of the Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf except as provided in Title 20?A, section 7407, subsection 3?A, any employee of the Maine Military Authority, any employee of the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority, any employee of the Maine Port Authority, any employee of the Efficiency Maine Trust who on June 30, 2009 is an employee of the Public Utilities Commission energy efficiency or renewable energy programs who elects to remain a state employee, any employee of the Efficiency Maine Trust who accepts employment with the Efficiency Maine Trust prior to July 1, 2010 who was a state employee immediately prior to accepting such employment who elects to remain a state employee and any employee transferred from the Division of Higher Education Services to the Finance Authority of Maine who elects to be treated as a state employee, but does not include:

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001

Statute: A law passed by a legislature.

Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.

Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.

Subscriber: means a purchaser or beneficiary of a continuing care agreement. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201

Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.

Superintendent: means the Superintendent of Insurance. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201

Supportive services: means providing assistance in the activities of daily living or other social services, or both. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6201

Teacher: includes a person who is on a one-year leave of absence from a position as a teacher and is participating in the education of prospective teachers by teaching and supervising students enrolled in college-level teacher preparation programs in this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: means the program established in chapter 1053?B. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 21

Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.

Tenancy in common: A type of property ownership in which two or more individuals have an undivided interest in property. At the death of one tenant in common, his (her) fractional percentage of ownership in the property passes to the decedent

Tenant: means a mobile home owner who rents a parcel of land in a mobile home park. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9091

Term: means a full term of office or any portion of a term that began before the 3rd Wednesday in June in an odd?numbered year served by an elected official in an office subject to the provisions of this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 552

Terminally ill: means that a person has a limited life expectancy in the opinion of the person's primary physician or the medical director. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8621

Testify: Answer questions in court.

Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.

Third-party administrator: means any person who, on behalf of a plan sponsor, health care service plan, nonprofit hospital or medical service organization, health maintenance organization or insurer, receives or collects charges, contributions or premiums for, or adjusts or settles claims on, residents of this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8702

Third-party payor: means a health insurer, carrier, including a carrier that provides only administrative services for plan sponsors, nonprofit hospital, medical services organization or managed care organization licensed in the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8702

This subchapter: means the "Uniform Agricultural Cooperative Association Act. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 13 Sec. 1774

Tokens: means distinctive objects, chips, tickets or other devices of no intrinsic value used as a substitute for cash in accounting for revenue from a game of chance. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 1831

Total adjusted capital: means the sum of:

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 6451

Township: means unorganized territory. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Tract: means that area composed of blocks or block groups that is defined as a tract in the United States Census for 1990. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1202

Trailer: means any vehicle without motive power, designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 2263

Transaction: means an action or set of actions occurring between 2 or more persons relating to the conduct of business, commercial or governmental affairs. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 10 Sec. 9402

Transfer: means to sell, furnish, give, lend, deliver or otherwise provide with or without consideration. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 2011

Treasurer: means a person appointed by a candidate or a political committee to accept or disburse money to promote or defeat a candidate, party or principle. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.

Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

Undeclared write-in candidate: means a write-in candidate who has not filed a declaration pursuant to section 722?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Under age: means under the age of 18. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72

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}

Uniformed service: means the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, the commissioned corps of the United States Public Health Service and the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Uniformed service voter: means :

A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

unit: means the bureau within the Department of Public Safety under Title 25, section 2902, subsection 12 or an authorized representative of the Gambling Control Unit. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 1831

United States: includes territories and the District of Columbia. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72

United States: when used to signify place includes those geographical areas and the lands and waters adjacent to those geographical areas under the jurisdiction of the United States. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1110

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.

Vehicle: means every vehicle which is self-propelled and designed for carrying persons or property or which is used for the transportation of persons, except motorcycles, farm implements and snowmobiles. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 2263

Vendor: means an authorized retailer, wholesaler or health care provider that provides food, cash benefits or health care services to a recipient. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 21

Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.

Volunteer: means a trained individual who works for a hospice program without compensation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8621

Volunteer hospice program: means a hospice program that provides all direct patient care at no charge. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8621

Voter: means a person registered to vote. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Voter participation history: means the indication in the central voter registration system of whether a voter has cast a ballot in a certain election, as reflected on the incoming voting list for that election. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Voting device: means the voting machine or electronic tabulating system apparatus that the voters use to record their votes on paper ballots or on a tabulating card. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 808

Voting district: means an area set off from another in the same municipality for voting purposes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Voting machine: means an apparatus on which voters cast their votes that records each vote by means of mechanical or electronic counters and furnishes a total of the number of votes cast for each candidate and for and against each referendum measure. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 808

Voting place: means the building in which ballots are cast at an election. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

voting station: includes the area, location, booth, table or enclosure where voting takes place and includes any voting machine, voting device or accessible voting system placed in the voting booth or voting station. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Voting system: means the total combination of mechanical, electromechanical or electronic equipment, including the software, firmware and documentation required to program, control and support the equipment, that is used to define or produce ballots, to cast and count votes, to report or display election results and to maintain and produce any audit trail information. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 808

Warden: means the presiding officer at a voting place. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Watercraft: means any type of vessel, boat or craft used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17 Sec. 2263

Wholesale acquisition cost: means a manufacturer's listed price for sale to a wholesale drug distributor or other entity that purchases a prescription drug directly from the manufacturer, not including any price concessions. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8731

Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.

Write-in candidate: means a person whose name does not appear on the ballot under the office designation to which a voter may wish to elect the candidate. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

Write-in indicator: means the space provided, in accordance with a particular type of ballot, for marking a write-in vote. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1

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