Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 38 > Chapter 17 > Subchapter 2 - Organization

• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• commercial activities: includes any solid waste generated by retail and wholesale establishments, including, but not limited to, food waste, corrugated containerboard, metals and plastics. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Demolition and construction waste: means all solid waste generated in the demolition and construction of buildings and other structures, including stumps, brush, plaster, sheetrock, boards, bricks, mortar, concrete and roofing materials except asbestos. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705
• Disposal: means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any solid waste into or on any land or water in a manner such that the solid waste, or any constituent of the solid waste, may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any water, including ground waters. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705
• disposal district: means any district formed under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705
• Disposal property: means property used for disposal. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705
• 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.
• in writing: include printing and other modes of making legible words. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• industrial activities: includes any solid waste generated by an industry as part of the production process. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705
• Joint meeting: An occasion, often ceremonial, when the House and Senate each adopt a unanimous consent agreement
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Majority: when used in reference to age shall mean the age of 18 and over. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• Municipal officers: means the mayor and municipal officers or councilors of a city, the members of the select board or councilors of a town and the assessors of a plantation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• Municipality: means municipality as defined in Title 30?A, section 2001, and includes plantations and unorganized territories. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705
• 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.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• 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
• Revenues: means the proceeds of bonds, all revenues, rates, tolls, assessments, rents, tipping fees, transportation charges and other charges and receipts derived by the district from the operation of a waste facility and other properties, including, but not limited to, investment earnings and the proceeds of insurance, condemnation, sale or other disposition of properties, and must include proceeds from assessments where the power of assessment has been granted to the district under section 1755. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705
• Solid waste: means useless, unwanted or discarded, nonhazardous solid materials with insufficient liquid content to be free flowing, including, but not limited to, rubbish, garbage, scrap materials, junk, refuse, inert fill material and landscape refuse. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705
• Town: includes cities and plantations, unless otherwise expressed or implied. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• United States: includes territories and the District of Columbia. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• Waste facility: means any land area, structure, location or equipment, or combination of them, including landfills, used for handling solid waste and for resource conservation and resource recovery, when utilized. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705
• Yard waste: means grass clippings, leaves and brush. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1705
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72