§ 3151 Legislative Findings and Intent
§ 3152 Definitions
§ 3152-A Agricultural cooperatives which are producer-dealers
§ 3153 Maine Milk Pool
§ 3153-A Dairy stabilization subsidy
§ 3153-B Dairy stabilization
§ 3153-D Transfer of revenues
§ 3154 Administration
§ 3155 Penalties
§ 3155-A Predatory behavior of eligible marketing cooperative prohibited
§ 3155-B Eligible marketing cooperative; revocation of status
§ 3156 Transportation allowances

Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 7 > Part 7 > Chapter 611 - Milk Pooling

  • Adjusted base minimum price: means the base minimum price plus any amounts established by the Maine Milk Commission to reflect the increased costs of production pursuant to section 2954, subsection 2, paragraph A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • 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.
  • Appraisal: means an analysis, opinion or conclusion prepared by a real estate appraiser related to the nature, quality, value or utility of specified interests in, or aspects of, identified real property. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14002
  • Appraisal foundation: means the appraisal foundation incorporated as an Illinois nonprofit corporation on November 30, 1987 and recognized under the federal Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 as the organization that establishes the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14002
  • Appraisal report: means any written or oral communication of an appraisal. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14002
  • Appraiser qualifications board: means an independent board of the appraisal foundation authorized to establish the minimum education, experience and examination criteria for licensed real estate appraisers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14002
  • Asynchronous encounter: means an interaction between a patient and a person licensed under this chapter through a system that has the ability to store digital information, including, but not limited to, still images, video files, audio files, text files and other relevant data, and to transmit such information without requiring the simultaneous presence of the patient and the person licensed under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13848
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Base minimum price: means Class I, Class II and Class III prices established pursuant to the northeast marketing area milk marketing order. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • Blend price: means the price of milk per hundredweight computed as the sum of the Class I price multiplied by the percentage of milk sold as Class I milk, the Class II price multiplied by the percentage sold as Class II milk and the Class III price multiplied by the percentage sold as Class III milk. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • Board: means the Maine Board of Pharmacy. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Board: means the Board of Real Estate Appraisers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14002
  • Boston market dealer: means any dealer as defined in subsection 4 who purchases milk from producers subject to the price regulations of the northeast marketing area milk marketing order. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • Boston market producer: means any Maine milk producer selling to a dealer marketing milk subject to the northeast marketing area milk marketing order, or any agricultural cooperative that buys milk from or handles milk for such a producer and sells it to such a dealer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • Collaborative drug therapy management: includes collecting and reviewing patient histories; obtaining and checking vital signs, including pulse, temperature, blood pressure and respiration; and, under the supervision of, or in direct consultation with, a practitioner, ordering and evaluating the results of laboratory tests directly related to drug therapy when performed in accordance with approved protocols applicable to the practice setting and when the evaluation does not include a diagnostic component. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Collaborative practice agreement: means a written and signed agreement between one or more pharmacists with training and experience relevant to the scope of the collaborative practice and a practitioner that supervises or provides direct consultation to the pharmacist or pharmacists engaging in collaborative drug therapy management that:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14002
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14202
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Complex residential property: means a residential property of one to 4 units exhibiting characteristics, determined by the board, that are not typical of the property type or marketplace, including, but not limited to:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14002
  • Consumer: means any person who purchases or contracts for the purchase of home repair services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14501
  • Consumer: means any person who purchases or contracts for the purchase of merchandise for any purpose except resale in the ordinary course of trade or business. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14701
  • 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.
  • Dealer: means any person or entity who purchases or receives milk from a producer within the State for processing and sale within or outside the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • 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 Professional and Financial Regulation, Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14501
  • Department: means the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14701
  • Department: means the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Department: means the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14002
  • Department: means the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14202
  • Director: means the Director of the Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation within the department. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14202
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Door-to-door sales: means the solicitation or sale of home repair services by a home repair seller or the seller's employees to a consumer as a result of or in connection with the seller's or the employee's direct contact accomplished by means of a personal visit to the consumer, other than at the seller's place of business, without the consumer soliciting the initial contact. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14501
  • Drug: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Eligible marketing cooperative: means an association of milk producers organized to negotiate producer prices higher than the minimum producer prices established pursuant to the northeast marketing area milk marketing order and that the commissioner has determined will not, through its operation, evade, impair or undermine the purposes of this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • Employee: means any independent contractor, agent or person working for a salary or a commission who is affiliated with a home repair seller. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14501
  • Employee: means any independent contractor, agent or person working for a salary or commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14701
  • 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
  • Establishment: means a beauty shop or salon, cosmetology shop or salon, barber hair styling shop or salon, hair styling shop or salon, hair design shop or salon or any premises, structure, building or part of a building where any activity licensed under this chapter is practiced. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14202
  • Federally related transaction: means any financial transaction related to real estate that:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14002
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Free clinic: means an incorporated nonprofit health facility that provides health care to people at no charge. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Home repair seller: means any person, partnership, corporation, business, trust or other legal entity that sells or provides home repair services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14501
  • Home repair services: includes , but is not limited to, the construction, installation, replacement, improvement or cleaning of driveways, swimming pools, porches, kitchens, chimneys, chimney liners, garages, fences, fall-out shelters, central air conditioning, central heating, boilers, furnaces, hot water heaters, electric wiring, sewers, plumbing fixtures, storm doors, storm windows, siding or awnings or other improvements to structures within the residence or upon the land adjacent to the residence, including tree trimming. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14501
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Maine market dealer: means any dealer as defined in subsection 4 who sells milk subject to the price control authority of the Maine Milk Commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • Maine market producer: means any Maine milk producer selling to a dealer marketing milk on the Maine market, or any agricultural cooperative that buys milk or handles milk for such a producer and sells it to such a dealer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • Maine Milk Pool: means the sum of collections as prescribed in section 3153, from Maine market producers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • Majority: when used in reference to age shall mean the age of 18 and over. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Merchandise: includes any objects, wares, goods, promises, commodities, intangibles, services or other things of value but does not include food or technical or vocational schools located outside of the State that are registered pursuant to Title 20?A, section 9501. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14701
  • Mobile establishment: means a mobile vehicle or mobile structure designed, constructed or adapted to serve as an establishment at a number of sites and capable of being readily moved from any site at any time. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14202
  • Month: means a calendar month. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Municipal officers: means the mayor, councillors and aldermen of cities, the members of the select board of towns and the assessors of plantations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 501
  • Municipality: shall include cities, towns and plantations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 501
  • 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
  • Noncomplex residential property: means property that is not defined as complex residential property in subsection 7. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14002
  • Northern Maine market producer: means any Maine milk producer located in Aroostook County or Washington County or that portion of Penobscot County north of and including the minor civil divisions of Medway, T. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • Notice: means written notification served personally, sent by certified mail or sent by first-class mail to the last known address of the person for whom the notification is intended. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111
  • Over-order premium: means that part of the minimum Class I, Class II and Class III prices established by the Maine Milk Commission pursuant to chapter 603, that exceeds the applicable Class I, Class II and Class III prices established pursuant to the northeast marketing area milk marketing order as adjusted to reflect the increased costs of production pursuant to section 2954, subsection 2, paragraph A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • 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.
  • Permanent place of business: means a building or other permanent structure, including a home residence, that is owned or held under a 12-month lease or rental agreement, from which business is commenced and that is used in whole or in part for the purpose of engaging in sales of home repair services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14501
  • Permanent place of business: means any building or other permanently affixed structure, including a home residence, that is owned or held under a 12-month lease or rental agreement at the time business is commenced and is used in whole or in part for the purpose of engaging in sales of consumer merchandise. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14701
  • Person: includes natural persons, corporations, trusts, partnerships, incorporated or unincorporated associations and any other legal entities. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14701
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, association or any other legal entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, association, society, club, corporation, financial institution, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, assignee or any other group or combination acting as a unit, the State or Federal Government or any political subdivision or agency of either government. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Pharmacist: means an individual provider of health care services licensed by this State to engage in the practice of pharmacy. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Pharmacy: means :
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Pharmacy intern: means a person who:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Pharmacy technician: means a person employed by a pharmacy who works in a supportive role to, and under the direct supervision of, a licensed pharmacist. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Plant price: means the F. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • practice of aesthetics: means the performance by any person for hire or compensation of any one or a combination of the following practices:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14202
  • Practice of barber hair styling: means any one or any combination of the following practices, when done for hire or compensation, upon the head of the human body for cosmetic purposes and not for the treatment of disease or physical or mental ailments:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14202
  • practice of cosmetology: means the performance by any person for hire or compensation of any one or more of the following practices:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14202
  • Practice of hair design: means any one or any combination of the following practices, when done for hire or compensation, upon the head of the human body for cosmetic purposes and not for the treatment of disease or physical or mental ailments:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14202
  • Practitioner: means an individual who is licensed, registered or otherwise authorized in the appropriate jurisdiction to prescribe and administer drugs in the course of professional practice. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Producer-dealer: means a dealer who produces a part or all of the dealer's milk or a person who produces milk and sells to a grocery store or dairy products store or similar commercial establishment, and includes an agricultural cooperative comprised solely of dairy farmers that wholly owns and operates its processing facilities, and whose individual members hold a share of that ownership that is in direct proportion to that individual's share of all milk produced by cooperative members for the cooperative, except that such an agricultural cooperative is a "producer-dealer" under this chapter only if it was in existence on January 1, 1986, and had been recognized on or before that date by the commissioner as meeting the criteria established in this subsection. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • Property: shall be construed to mean both real estate and personal property. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 501
  • Real estate: means an identified parcel of land, including improvements, if any. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14002
  • 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 estate appraisal activity: means the act or process of making an appraisal of real property and communicating a report. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14002
  • Real estate appraiser: includes review appraisers and appraisal administrators. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14002
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Real property: means one or more defined interests, benefits or rights inherent in the ownership of real estate. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14002
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Residence: means a single-family or multifamily dwelling, including but not limited to a single-family home, apartment building, condominium, duplex or town house that is used or intended to be used by its occupants as a dwelling place. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14501
  • Return: means any document, digital file or electronic data transmission containing information required by this Title to be reported to the State Tax Assessor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111
  • Sale: includes any sale, transfer, exchange or barter, offer for sale, promise to sell or attempt to sell, or advertisement for sale, of any merchandise for cash or for credit. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14701
  • School: means a school or education institution where a program of study in cosmetology, barber hair styling, hair design, aesthetics or nail technology or the instruction of cosmetology, barber hair styling, hair design, aesthetics or nail technology is offered or taught. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14202
  • seller: means a home repair seller who engages in the business of door-to-door solicitations or sales of home repair services who does not have, at the time of the solicitation or contract, a permanent place of business in the municipality in which the door-to-door solicitation or sale occurs. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14501
  • Store and forward transfer: means the transmission of a patient's records through a secure electronic system to a person licensed under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13848
  • Student: means any person duly enrolled in a school licensed by the director and engaged in learning and acquiring a knowledge of the practice of:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14202
  • Synchronous encounter: means a real-time interaction conducted with an interactive audio or video connection between a patient and a person licensed under this chapter or between a person licensed under this chapter and another health care provider. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13848
  • Tax: means the total amount required to be paid, withheld and paid over or collected and paid over with respect to estimated or actual tax liability under this Title, any credit or reimbursement allowed or paid pursuant to this Title that is recoverable by the assessor and any amount assessed by the assessor pursuant to this Title, including any interest or penalties provided by law. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111
  • Tax collector: shall mean any person chosen, appointed or designated by a municipality or the officers thereof to collect any tax due a municipality; or his successor in office. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 501
  • Telehealth services: means health care services delivered through the use of information technology and includes synchronous encounters, asynchronous encounters, store and forward transfers and telemonitoring. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13848
  • Telemonitoring: means the use of information technology to remotely monitor a patient's health status via electronic means, allowing the person licensed under this chapter to track the patient's health data over time. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13848
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Town: includes cities and plantations, unless otherwise expressed or implied. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Trainee: means any person who, under the direct supervision of a person licensed under this chapter in the same category as the training performed and in accordance with rules adopted by the director, is engaged in learning and acquiring a knowledge of the practice of:
  • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14202
  • transient seller: means any person who engages in the business of selling merchandise to consumers by means of personal contact or telephone contact, whether or not the seller is present in the State at the time of the contact or the time of sale, and who does not have, for the purposes of carrying on such business, any permanent place of business within this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14701
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice: means those standards adopted by the appraisal standards board of the appraisal foundation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14002
  • Utilization rate: means the percentage of milk produced that is used as Class I or fluid milk, the percentage of milk produced that is used as Class II milk and the percentage of milk that is used as Class III milk. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.