Maine Revised Statutes > Title 7 > Part 9 > Chapter 720 – Rabies Prevention and Shelter Provisions
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- Animal: means every living, sentient creature not a human being. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907
- Animal control: means control of dogs, cats, and domesticated or undomesticated animals in accordance with section 3948. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907
- Animal control officer: means the person appointed periodically by a municipality pursuant to chapter 725. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907
- Animal shelter: means a:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907Board: means the Maine Fuel Board established in Title 5, section 12004?A, subsection 49. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18101 Board: means the Board of Licensure for Professional Land Surveyors. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18201 Board: means the Board of Dental Practice established in Title 5, section 12004?A, subsection 10. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Cat: means a member of the genus and species known as Felis catus. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Cat identification: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18201 Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant. 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. Dental auxiliary: means a dental radiographer, expanded function dental assistant, dental hygienist, independent practice dental hygienist, public health dental hygienist, dental therapist or denturist. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Dental hygiene: means the delivery of preventative, educational and clinical services supporting total health for the control of oral disease and the promotion of oral health provided by a dental hygienist in accordance with this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Dental hygiene diagnosis: means the identification of an existing oral health problem that a dental hygienist is qualified and licensed to treat. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Dental hygienist: means a person who holds a valid license as a dental hygienist issued by the board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Dental radiographer: means a person who holds a valid license as a dental radiographer issued by the board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Dental radiography: means the use of ionizing radiation on the maxilla, mandible and adjacent structures of human beings for diagnostic purposes while under the general supervision of a dentist or an independent practice dental hygienist in accordance with this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Dental therapist: means a person who holds a valid license as a dental hygienist issued by the board and is authorized to practice dental therapy under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Dental therapy: means the delivery of dental hygiene services, including performance of certain dental procedures in accordance with this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Dentist: means a person who holds a valid dentist license issued by the board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Dentistry: means the scope of practice for a dentist as described in section 18371. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Denture: means any removable full or partial upper or lower prosthetic dental appliance to be worn in the human mouth to replace any missing natural teeth. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Denturism: means the process of obtaining denture impressions and bite registrations for the purpose of making, producing, reproducing, constructing, finishing, supplying, altering or repairing a denture to be fitted to an edentulous or partially edentulous arch or arches and the fitting of a denture to an edentulous or partially edentulous arch or arches, including the making, producing, reproducing, constructing, finishing, supplying, altering and repairing of dentures, without performing alteration to natural or reconstructed tooth structure, in accordance with this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Denturist: means a person who holds a valid denturist license issued by the board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Department: means the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18201 Department: means the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Direct supervision: means the supervision required of those tasks and procedures requiring the physical presence of the supervisor in the practice setting at the time such tasks or procedures are being performed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Director: means the Director of the Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation within the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Dispensing station: means a licensed facility consisting of fixed equipment where propane or natural gas is stored and dispensed into portable containers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18101 Dog: means a member of the genus and species known as canis familiaris, except that in chapters 720, 721, 725, 727, 729 and 739 "dog" means a member of the genus and species known as canis familiaris or any canine, regardless of generation, resulting from the interbreeding of a member of canis familiaris with a wolf hybrid. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Domestic violence: means conduct described in Title 17?A, chapters 9, 11, 12 and 13; Title 17?A, sections 432, 433, 506, 506?A, 506?B, 758, 805, 806, 852 and 853; and Title 19?A, section 4102, subsection 1, when the victim of that conduct or threat is a family or household member, as defined in Title 19?A, section 4102, subsection 6, paragraphs A to E or dating partner, as defined in Title 19?A, section 4102, subsection 4. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 14 Sec. 6000 Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met. Expanded function dental assistant: means a person who holds a valid expanded function dental assistant license issued by the board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Expanded function dental assisting: means performing certain dental procedures under the supervision of a dentist in accordance with this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Faculty: means , when used in conjunction with a license issued under this chapter, the authority granted to an individual who is authorized to practice only within the school setting, including any satellite locations approved by the board, and who teaches dentistry, dental hygiene or denturism as part of a clinical and didactic program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 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. General supervision: means the supervision of those tasks and procedures that do not require the physical presence of the supervisor in the practice setting while procedures are being performed but do require the tasks and procedures to be performed with the prior knowledge and consent of the supervisor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value. Humane agent: means an employee of the department who assists in enforcing this Part. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Humanely trap: means to trap an animal using traps and trapping methods that are designed to avoid injury to animals to the greatest extent practicable for animal control or animal rescue purposes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Independent practice dental hygienist: means a person who holds a valid license as a dental hygienist issued by the board and who is authorized to practice independent dental hygiene. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Jurisprudence: The study of law and the structure of the legal system. Keeper: means a person in possession or control of a dog or other animal. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Land surveying: means any service or work involving the application of special knowledge of the rules of evidence and boundary laws, principles of mathematics and the related physical and applied sciences for measuring and locating lines, angles, elevations and natural and man-made features in the air, on the surface of the earth, within underground workings and on the beds of bodies of water. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18201 Land surveyor-in-training: means a person licensed under this chapter to practice land surveying under the responsible charge of a professional land surveyor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18201 lands: includes lands and all tenements and hereditaments connected therewith, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Law enforcement officer: means any person who, by virtue of the person's public employment, is vested by law with a duty to maintain public order, enforce any law of this State establishing a civil violation, prosecute offenders or make arrests for crimes, whether that duty extends to all crimes or is limited to specific crimes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt. Limited dentist: means a dentist who has retired from the regular practice of dentistry and who holds a valid license issued by the board to practice only in a nonprofit clinic without compensation for work performed at the clinic. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Livestock: means cattle; equines; sheep; goats; swine; domesticated cervids, fowl and rabbits; members of the family Camelidae, genus lama and genus vicugna; bison; and ratites. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Local anesthesia: means a drug, element or other material that results in a state of insensibility of a circumscribed area or the loss of sensation in some definite, localized area without inhibition of conscious processes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan. Municipality: means an organized city, town or plantation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Natural gas: means hydrocarbon fuel in a gaseous state with a composition of predominantly CH4. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18101 NFPA: means the National Fire Protection Association. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18101 Nitrous oxide analgesia: means a gas containing nitrous oxide used to induce a controlled state of relative analgesia with the goal of controlling anxiety. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Owner: means a person owning, keeping or harboring a dog or other animal. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, association or any other legal entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Person: means an individual. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18201 Pet: means a dog, cat or other domesticated animal commonly kept as a companion, but does not include tamed animals that are ordinarily considered wild animals or livestock. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit. Practice setting: means the physical location where services authorized under this chapter are provided to the public. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Professional land surveyor: means a person licensed under this chapter to practice land surveying. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18201 Propane: means a hydrocarbon fuel with a chemical composition of predominantly C3H8, whether recovered from natural gas or from crude oil. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18101 Provisional dental therapist: means a person who holds a valid license as a dental hygienist issued by the board and who is authorized to practice dental therapy under the supervision of a dentist in accordance with this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Public health dental hygiene: means the delivery of certain dental hygiene services under a written supervision agreement with a dentist for the purpose of providing services in a public health setting in accordance with this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Public health dental hygienist: means a person who holds a valid license as a dental hygienist issued by the board and who is authorized to practice public health dental hygiene in accordance with this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Public health setting: means a place where the practice of public health dental hygiene occurs, and includes, but is not limited to, public and private schools, medical facilities, nursing homes, residential care facilities, mobile units, nonprofit organizations and community health centers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business. 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 Resident dentist license: means the authority granted to an individual who is a graduate of an approved dental school or college, who is not licensed to practice dentistry in this State and is authorized to practice under the direct or general supervision and direction of a dentist in a board-approved setting in accordance with this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Responsible charge: means direct control and personal supervision of land surveying. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18201 Self-service dispensing station: means a licensed facility where propane or natural gas is dispensed into permanently mounted fuel containers on vehicles. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18101 Sexual assault: means any conduct described under Title 17?A, chapters 11, 12 and 35 and Title 17?A, sections 852 and 853. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 14 Sec. 6000 Small animal: means a bird, reptile or amphibian or a small mammal, other than a cat or dog, commonly kept as a household pet and that is an unrestricted species designated by the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in rules adopted pursuant to Title 12, chapter 915. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Solid fuel: means coal, wood, pellets and other similar organic materials or any combination of them. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18101 Stalking: means any conduct described in Title 17?A, section 210?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 14 Sec. 6000 Stray: means off the owner's premises and not under the control of a person. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Supervision: means either direct supervision or general supervision as determined by the tasks and procedures that are being performed in accordance with this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 Supervisor: means an individual licensed by the board and authorized to provide supervision under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18302 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 Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition. Unorganized territory: means all areas located within the jurisdiction of the State, except areas located within organized cities and towns, and Indian reservations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Wolf hybrid: includes a mammal that is represented by its owner to be a wolf hybrid, coyote hybrid, coydog or any other kind of wild canid hybrid. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.